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From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Falcon on an IMpact A500 HD.
Summary: What's wrong with it?
Keywords: Broken.
Message-ID: <2898@d75.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 90 16:09:32 GMT
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Reply-To: robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX
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I just got an Impact A500 20M hard disk for Christmas (the new one with the 
space for 4 meg. of SIMMs).  I tried to put Falcon v1.1 (using the supplied
HD install program) on the hard disk, but now when I start it up, it doesn't 
live up to the floppy based version.  Problems I have had:

	1) The sound is way off.  Instead of having engine noise like 
	before, I now get silence.  No missles, but every now and then
	I can hear the engines when I fire a missle, or change the HUD.

	2) The screen is screwy.  Right above the controls, and right below
	the horizon (or wherever the nose of the plane is) there is a band
	about 4-6 pixels wide going all the way across the screen (left-to-
	right).  Some of the instruments don't show up all of the time, 
	leaving holes in the instrument panel.

Other than that, it loads much faster 8-).  

My first guess was that with the hard drive on the system, I was running low
on memory; but, I have 1 meg. and when I start up falcon there is somewhere
more than 700K available.  And it used to run better than this in my 512K
set-up.  My second guess was that I moved the falcon drawer out of the root
directory on the HD.  (I put it into my Games dir.)  If this is the problem,
I guess I'll live with it, but I won't like it.



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