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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shanghai, GS version
Message-ID: <7243@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Feb 88 05:12:16 GMT
References: <1326@gumby.cs.wisc.edu> <6230002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6230002@hpindda.HP.COM> tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby) writes:
>My copy had a problem that was hard to miss: when I would win a game, the
>program would print a "Contact Activision--System Error xx" message and
>crash into the monitor. After experimenting, I found that moving the DRAGON1
>and DRAGON2 files from /SHANGHAI to /SHANGHAI/SYSTEM solved the problem.

Another "fix" is to simply start to OPEN a FILE then CANCEL, before you
get to the end of the game.

Maybe we all really SHOULD contact Activision.  We could also complain
about Shanghai not being able to operate properly on a hard disk.