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From: soo@broke.dec.com (Chong-Liang Soo (DTN 381-0416))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Emerald Mine
Message-ID: <8811040423.AA10858@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 4 Nov 88 04:23:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>In article (Sam Weber) writes:
>>I just bought a copy of Emerald Mine, and discovered that it wouldn't
>>boot on my Amiga 1000 (nor on a friend's, so it isn't a hardware problem).
>>My dealer found that it does boot on a 2000,
>>    --Sam Weber            This posting has been brought to you today
>
>Just out of curiosity what version of Kickstart are you running? At least
>one program so far "Crazy Cars by Titus" doesn't work with 1.3 Kickstart.
>
>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.

No, it works perfectly fine with 1.3, I just tested that.

I have an 1000 and I have been having great fun with Emerald Mine for two
weeks now.  I had problem loading it up when I first got it.  I brought it
back to the dealer, and the dealer said he heard that the external drive
has to be disconnected (for 1000) for it to load.  I did that, and it got
loaded right up (made my drive bang its heads against the casing in the
process), so, try that.  Apparently this is necessary for machines with
only 512K--df1: takes up some memory.

Thanks to the copy protection, I may have to change my drive as soon as I
got to level 2001 (Watch this space for my game statistics in three years).
I therefore suggest that you boot it up and not switch off your computer
until you get to level 2001 (in three years, that is, if your hands and
feet are only as quick as mine).  On the other hand, the game when crazy
on me about six times over the past two weeks and I had to reboot to get
going again.

Tips: if, when you got to a new level after playing for a while, you find
that it is absolutely impossible to get through the new level due to the very
low number of emeralds and diamonds you can possibly get (by blowing up the
Eaters, Bugs, your computer, etc.), try a reboot (both your computer and
you), you may find that the game behaves differently now!

Chong, turning the wheel at level 34 :-{
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