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From: granger@cg-atla.UUCP (Peter Granger )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,rec.games.misc
Subject: Beware of Activision and Rampage
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Date: 5 May 88 12:04:40 GMT
Reply-To: granger@cg-atla.UUCP (Peter Granger )
Organization: Compugraphic Corp. Wilmington, MA
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   Beware of Activision's "Rampage"! It's apparently unstable in some
way. I picked it up Tuesday night, took it home, and played with it for
a while. I exited and restarted the program a few times, with no
apparent ill effects. I played it enough to fill up one high-score
listing. Then I exited the program, removed the disk from the drive, and
powered down the machine. Last night (Wednesday), I wanted to play some
more. So I booted DOS, put the disk in, and typed "rampage". And I got
the message "Bad File Allocation Table." It kept on giving me this
message, even when I rebooted the machine several times. Now I have to
try to get a replacement. Does anybody know a phone number for
Activision?

   Note: I was playing on an 8 MHz XT clone (100% compatible), and
running the software directly from the 360k floppy that it came on. Good
thing I wasn't playing from a hard disk, since it kills the FAT.

   Please send suggestions by E-mail.
-- 
Pete Granger            ...!{decvax,ulowell,ima,ism780c}!cg-atla!granger
"Why do you always serve venison and fish on Valentine's day?"
"Because I love you hart and sole."