| From: | Nuno Berneaud |
| Date: | 11 Jul 2001 at 13:25:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Nightlong woes |
Hello Samuel
On 10-Jul-01, you wrote:
>SB Somehow I think that was all talk. I submitted for the new cds on
>SB the Portal too. Didnt even get a confirmation that I had done that
>SB and I dont ever expect the cds to turn up...not that it matters now
>SB Im 90% through the game atm ;-)
I mailed them a few weeks ago and they told me they were taking care of
the issue. Even with that I'm not too hopeful...
>SB> The game freezes in some of the animated
>SB> sequences,making me unable to progress past a couple of screens.
>SB> My
>SB> question is: is there anything I can do to prevent this? Or do I
>SB> have to wait god knows how long (forever?) for the fixed discs? I
>SB> tried to turn speech off , but it keeps happening.
>SB
>SB This is probably due to your CD being too fast!!!!!! (I know, I
>SB know....TOO fast?? but its true.)
>SB I have several old 4x CD roms laying around here - ALL of which read
>SB all of the 3 NL cds perfectly. The 20x cd and even the 16x cdrw both
>SB fail to read the cds properly. creating massive read/write errors.
>SB
>SB Also - running the game from CD slows NL down massively. The best
>SB thing to do is use the old cd drive that reads the nl cds ok and
>SB copy the entire CD to Hard drive one CD at a time. Then when u are
>SB onto cd 2 delete cd1 from hd (i put them in a totally differnt place
>SB to the actual Nightlong program) and install cd2. (u will need to do
>SB the following then:
>SB
>SB "assign q: cd0:" (for assign to cd1 to start the game)
>SB start nl. hit esc to goto load/save screen. select game to load.
>SB it'll ask for cd2/3)
>SB hit Left Amiga+N to goto wb.
>SB "assign q: dismount"
>SB "assign q: PathOfNightlong2/3 cd on HD:"
>SB then amiga+m to go back to NL and hit enter
>SB
>SB Using the HD for the files will speed things right up and using the
>SB slow CD will allow the copy of the files in the first place!
Unfortunately I have no slower drives around and not much spare disk
space.
If I make copies of the CD's with MakeCD, do you think it might solve
the problem?
Bye,
Nuno
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