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Re: No In-Game Messages???

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From: Alun Millard
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:00
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I think that if you go into the options bit, there is an option called
"Display Messages" or something like that. make sure it says "yes" or "on"
or whatever. I may be wrong, not played Duke in a while *waiting for SST TC
to come out* but thats what it should be i think

Joseph William Dixon <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1...@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca.
..
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Joseph William Dixon wrote:
> >   Okay, this is wierd.  For some reason, my DN3D v1.3d is no longer
> > displaying messages at the top of the screen when I pick up objects,
enter
> > secret areas, use the cheat codes (only use them when testing maps I'm
> > making so that I don't have to slog through all the critters whenever I
> > need to look at hard-to-access areas), etc....  I reinstalled from the
CD,
> > but that didn't change anything. :(
>
>   Okay, it fixed itself after deleting everything in the dir first *then*
> reinstalling.  Still, I wonder what caused the problem in the first place
so
> that I can avoid it from now on...
>
> >   Anyone else ever have this problem? (I never would've noticed except
> > that I wasn't getting the 'Secret Area!" message when making sure of the
> <<<snip>>>
>
>   *kicks self*  "A Secret Place!", of course. :)
>
> ---
>   "All Dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and
> thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink,
> to rush at enemies screaming 'Arrrrrrgh!' and axing their legs off at the
> knee."  [Terry Pratchett]    http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/Profile.html
>
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From: "Alun Millard" <lo...@spam.co.uk>
Subject: Re: No In-Game Messages???
Date: 2000/03/17
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