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From: thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two questions about "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Message-ID: <830@savax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 23:25:26 GMT
References: <6900@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <6900@spool.cs.wisc.edu> bier@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (George Bier) writes:
>
>Despite misgivings I had heard on the net about it, I picked up "Who
>Framed Roger Rabbit?" for the Amiga this weekend.  Unless the answers
>to the following two questions are more positive then I think they will
>be, the game is seriously unplayable:
>
>1) After finishing a game, is there any way to restart the game without doing
>a reboot?  I end up at a black workbench window and a tinkerbell mouse 
>pointer, but nothing else seems to work.

If you edit the startup-sequence on disk1, you can remove the second line
which is 'endcli'. Then, when the program terminates, you can rerun it from
the cli just by typing "rogerrabbit".
Alternatively, you can run the program from your own cli (don't boot with 
RogerRabbit) so long as you set your stack large enough (it worked with
100K but that is probably overkill). You may also need to do a few assigns
(see below).

>2) Does the game load any faster if installed on a hard-drive?  According
>to the instructions, it is not copy protected (HURRAY!).  Is the game
>anymore playable if one has a hard drive? 

Well I don't have a hard drive either (yet) so I copied all of disk1 to
ram:. I also had to do a bunch of assigns such as:
assign disk1: ram:
assign ins: ram:ins
assign voice: ram:voice
etc...
This sped things up because all the instruments, many of the voices, and the
program are on disk1. However, it still had to slowly load the images from
disk2. And yes, it will load faster on a hard drive. Hope this helps.
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