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From: Drool@cup.portal.com (Paul James Coene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bards Tale I
Message-ID: <16603@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Apr 89 22:21:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Has anyone had any experience running Bards Tale I from a hard disk in
a multi-tasking (freindly) way?  I have made minor headway, in that I can
do it from workbench, without rebooting, via an iconx script and a bunch
of assigns.  The problems are many:
 
1) My assigns make other tasks very confused.
 
2) Even though Bards Take gets its characters from my hard disk, and appears 
   to use my s:, libs:, and fonts: from the hard disk, all picture loads
   still come from floppy.
 
To solve problem 1, I attempted to use the "pathass" utility found here
on portal.  This seems to work for everything, but Bards Tale.  The s:
pathass actually seems to be ok, but the libs: and fonts: must be done
via a normal assign.  My current script lies below.  Anyone have any ideas
or suggestions?

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ASK "Is BardsTale Game Disk Inserted in DF0 (y/n)? "
if WARN
	stuff:expansion/c/pathass -d s:
	stuff:expansion/c/pathass s: dh0:s,stuff:expansion/s,stuff:ad&d/bardstale/s
	assign fonts: stuff:ad&d/bardstale/fonts
	assign libs: stuff:ad&d/bardstale/libs
	assign "bards tale character disk:" "stuff:ad&d/bardstale/character disk"
	cd stuff:ad&d/bardstale
	assign c: df0:c
	bardstale
	system:c/assign c: system:c
	stuff:expansion/c/pathass -d s:
	stuff:expansion/c/pathass s: dh0:s,stuff:expansion/s
	assign fonts: system:fonts
	assign libs: system:libs
	cd stuff:ad&d/bardstale
ENDIF

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