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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
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Subject: Bug... er, Limitation in "Faery Tale" (and minor spoiler)
Message-ID: <3318@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 04:06:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3318
Posted: Mon Jun 15 04:06:27 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 01:42:17 EDT
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Organization: Hole Earth Lectroinic Loss (or words to that effect)
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Summary: Expanded RAM owners, beware!

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	I just picked up The Faery Tale Adventure.  For those who don't know
what it is, it's a sort of adventure game where you have to save your realm
from an evil necromancer by recovering the Talisman and saving the Princess.
To do this, you wander around a visual world that is some 17000 *screens* in
size.

	I have a 2 MByte RAM card (cheap plug: it's ASDG's).  I fired up
Faery Tale, and all seemed perfectly normal.  The game played well, there
were no graphics glitches.  On the surface, a properly programmed game.

	However, I did unearth a couple of bugs which only manifest if you
have expanded RAM.  The first one I noticed was that you can't enter a
certain building in your home villiage of Tambry (north western-most one).

	The second one was a real biggie.  When you use one of the Bird
Totems to display a large area map, the map doesn't show up.  This really
had me puzzled for a while.  I thought all the bird totem did was to shift
the display slightly, and place a flashing cursor somewhere on the screen.
I told this to a friend of mine, and he said, "No, it makes a map."  "Not
for me, it doesn't," I replied, whereupon he suggested pulling the 2M RAM
off.

	I did, and it works perfectly now.  Except that I don't want to have
to pull my RAM off every time I want to play Faery Tale.  I haven't tried
the stock solutions yet (FixHunk, FAST RAM fillers, etc.).  Maybe those will
help.

	Anyway, if this has been covered before, sorry for the rehash.  And
if you've encountered the same problems, how did you rectify it?

	It's still a great game, though.....

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