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Newsgroups: alt.games.descent
Subject: Re: Registerd version missing file?!?!?
References: <saladD4...@netcom.com>

sa...@netcom.com (A.Narup) writes:

>When trying to load a saved game, or even playback one of the recorded
>camera files, Descent bombs out with a "missing file" error message.

   Hmmmm... I thought this was only in the pirated beta version.

>I checked the distribution disks, but didn't see the file.             

   Hmmmm... I didn't think Interplay was shipping floppies yet. 

   Tell you what... to be perfectly honest with you, it seems to me that
  you must have pirated Descent.  Now, I could be wrong, and if so, I 
  apologize and you should send me some email, and I'll look into it as I
  thought that was only in the pirated beta.  If however, those "disks" that
  you searched were actually zip files, then please delete them, dial 
  1-800-INTERPLAY, apologize for pirating, and order Descent.  Then, wait
  a week or two for Mr. mailman to arrive.  Take your disks out of the 
  purchased copy of Descent, type A:INSTALL at the prompt and then run  
  Descent.  Then, if you still get this error (and I am quite sure that you
  won't) then email me and I'll personally take a look into it.

  John Slagel
  Parallax Software

In article <jslagelD...@netcom.com>, jsl...@netcom.com (John
Slagel) wrote:

> Newsgroups: alt.games.descent
> Subject: Re: Registerd version missing file?!?!?
> References: <saladD4...@netcom.com>
> 
> sa...@netcom.com (A.Narup) writes:
> 
> >When trying to load a saved game, or even playback one of the recorded
> >camera files, Descent bombs out with a "missing file" error message.
> 
>    Hmmmm... I thought this was only in the pirated beta version.
> 
> >I checked the distribution disks, but didn't see the file.             
> 
>    Hmmmm... I didn't think Interplay was shipping floppies yet. 
> 
>    Tell you what... to be perfectly honest with you, it seems to me that
>   you must have pirated Descent.  Now, I could be wrong, and if so, I 
>   apologize and you should send me some email, and I'll look into it as I
>   thought that was only in the pirated beta.  If however, those "disks" that
>   you searched were actually zip files, then please delete them, dial 
>   1-800-INTERPLAY, apologize for pirating, and order Descent.  Then, wait
>   a week or two for Mr. mailman to arrive.  Take your disks out of the 
>   purchased copy of Descent, type A:INSTALL at the prompt and then run  
>   Descent.  Then, if you still get this error (and I am quite sure that you
>   won't) then email me and I'll personally take a look into it.

I received my CD-ROM yesterday installed it immediately. The installer
crashed twice and I was left with an installed image that exited with the
error.

Can't load file moonx.yyy (or something close to that). The "x" was the number
2 or 3 (I saw both) and the "yyy" was an extension that, I'm sorry but, I
did not record.

I read the tech tips from the interplay tech-support http and tried again
with most of my extensions off (I used the dos6 Fkey that lets you step
through config.sys and autoexec.bat so I got the mouse, CD-ROM, SB16 and
memory manager stuff loaded.)

This second time it did not crash and ran fine.

Just in case this helps.

-- 
--alen ... Trying to turn a SPARC into a FLAME
al...@crash.cts.com
(Arguing from first principles, when dealing with computers, rarely
 works. Computers have no principles).

   I looked into this and it seems that when you boot with the f5 key held
   down for a clean boot, dos doesn't allocate enough file handles for what
   descent requires.  Try using a config.sys that has a files=10 or higher.
   
   John Slagel
   Parallax Software