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Article #400Virgin games hanging system
From: ma... Mark Bernstein
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 20:14
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 20:14
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This is related to more than just adventure games, but it *does* relate to them, and I didn't get any responses over in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games (very little traffic there). I hope someone out there can help. I just upgraded my motherboard and disk. I went from a 386DX33 to a 486DLC40, and from an MLM disk to an IDE. Now whenever I try to run either Wonderland or Spot, both by Virgin, my system locks up so badly that I have to hit the reset button--Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. The machine has a Turbo button, so I've tried this at both speeds--no help. No other games are having this sort of problem, and I have a fair number of them. Spot ran fine on the old system. This is the first time I've installed Wonderland, since I didn't have enough disk before. Another problem, which is only slightly annoying instead of deadly, is with the Sierra games (KQ5, SQ4, LSL5). I have a SoundBlaster Pro, but if I configure the game to use the SoundBlaster, running the game gets me a message telling me it can't configure my music hardware, then the machine locks up and I have to reboot. If I configure the game to use the AdLib driver instead, it runs okay. They ran fine on the old system, and I'm pretty sure they were configured for the SoundBlaster there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Mark Bernstein ma...@cimage.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!heifetz!dgsi!markb From: ma...@cimage.com (Mark Bernstein) Subject: Virgin games hanging system Message-ID: <1994Jan4.201426.1546@cimage.com> Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 20:14:26 GMT Lines: 34 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit