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Article #70Re: Duke Nukem is a WIMP
From: J R Brewin
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
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Tyson Bryner wrote:
>
> On 25 Mar 1996 22:11:30 GMT, jks...@vaxb.isc.rit.edu (Jeff Salzmann)
> wrote:
>
> >Im Artikel <4g9gnq$j...@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, bra...@ecn.purdue.edu
> >(Branden Robinson) schreibt:
>
> > 1) The music/sound setup can't autodetect DMA channels for shit
>
> So what??? set them yourself!
>
> > 2) The saved game thumbnails are corrupted 1/3 to 1/2 the time
>
> So what??? it doesn't hurt your gameplay!
>
> > 3) Game restores occasionally bomb right out of the program
>
> This has never happened to me!
>
> > 4) It likes to wegde machines HARD. As in locking up the keyboard
> >beyond
> >all hope of a three-finger salute. Once I even crashed into some debug
> >code that blew my monitor into some half-assed 40x25 CGA text mode, rang
> >the speaker bell like it was a fire alarm, and dumped the processor
> >state to LPT1:, complete with the register contents.
you should've sent it to apogee, help them find out what the problem was
as for all the other problems, try reading the textfiles that come with
the demo, and keep up to date with patches, there are fixes or walkarounds
for all the problems described.
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