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From: schuh@geowhiz.UUCP (David Schuh)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Posted Dungeons of Doom to net-sources-mac
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 10:13:54 EDT
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> 
> I posted a shareware game called Dungeons of Doom V2.0 to net.sources.mac.
> It comes in 3 parts:  a readme file, a startup screen, and the program
> itself.
> 
> This program requires 512K of memory.  It bombs in the segment loader
> when I try to run it on my puny 128K Mac.
> 
> --Gordon Hamachi

I downloaded these files with great anticipation of fun and a little
trepidation, 200+k is a long time at 1200baud.  Anyway I followed
the exact instructions in README, ie. use an empty disc, minimum
system (control panel, system fonts only) DofD2  and the startup screen.
Thats it. No finder.  Well hmm so tried booting from that disk and got
the big X wouldnt boot I even tried putting a finder in the disk.  
For some people the problem may have been 
immediatly apparent. What I had done is completely erased a disk for this
purpose and copied all the stuff to it and made DofD2 the startup and directed.
Apparently though that completely blows away the boot blocks (or they were
never there it was just full of text files).  The moral of the story is
if you cant get it to boot use something to get the boot blocks written.
I used Fedit 3.5 and violla, pretty picture and all.

BTW  This is the first game for the mac That I can honestly rage about
Its GREAT, admittedly the game isnt an original concept but playing it on
the mac is loads of fun.  Kudos go to the author (whose name I forgot to bring).
He'll be getting my registration.

dave schuh
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