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From: laba-3en@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Raja S Kushalnagar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Game incompatiability
Summary: What gives?
Keywords: Curious
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.060616.16007@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 06:06:16 GMT
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Reply-To: laba-3en@web-1c (Raja S Kushalnagar)
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I bought one of those action game packs (From W Germany, BTW), and even 
though one of the games was 8-bitishly awful, the rest were not too bad.
But to start those games is awkward.  Rebooting with the C-A-A sequence 
will not make most of them start. I have to turn off the Amiga and then 
turn it on again, for the games to start.  What's the diff between a cold
reboot and a warm reboot anyway? And then one game refuses to boot at all
on my amiga, though interestingly enough, it is not copy-protected and 
when I tried to tun it from the cli, it showed exactly the same behaviour
as with the reboot. When I took it to my dealer, he did not find any problem
with booting it up on a 500. The 2000's and 2500/30's there were being hogged
and we could not test it on those computers, but all the same it is rather 
curious, how can a game that can run on a 500 NOT run on my stock 2000HD?

And oh, one more thing, how can I copy BattleChess onto my harddrive? 
I tried the apparently obvious solution of assigning dh0: to fh1:, but it
failed miserably. Any pointers? -> not a NULL pointer though :). 
FYI, BattleChess is not copy protected and has a program (and icon) which 
will let you copy it to dh0:.  I also tried direct copying, but it failed 
too.  Oh well.  

Does anyone have source code for a more efficient compressing than the Lempel
Ziv one? I am writing a package which is akin to the man pages on Unix, and 
the whole program is almost a megabyte, mostly man pages of course. I've 
tentatively written come compressing code, which is just plain old Huffman
encoding. I know it ain't efficient, but I couldn't get access to any better
code, especially the Lempel Ziv code - and I am at Berkeley!  Oh well.  But
sometime back I came accross a reference that said that zoo, lharc etc used
more efficient encoding than Lempel Ziv.  Hmm?

	Raja. 

P.S. Seeing the New York Knicks play brings a smile to my lips, for in Brit
English, "knicks" are equivalent to "panties". :)

raja@{soda,ocf,athena}.berkeley.edu | root@athena.berkeley.edu | laba-3en@web
	Programmer Analyst I, S & P dept, UC Berkeley. 
Disclaimer: I am a poor foreign undergrad sophomore who just turned eighteen 
half a year ago; if anything serious happens, I plead juvenile delinquency!