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Article #115Re: Wing Command I and OS/2
From: ml... Mark Lord
Date: Mon, 03 May 1993 19:18
Date: Mon, 03 May 1993 19:18
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In article <1s3o5r$f...@bcarhd4.bnr.ca> bjm...@bcarh30a.bnr.ca (Brad Mills) writes: >In article <1s3kjo...@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu> gric...@cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) writes: >>I'm having a problem w/ Wing Commander I hanging during game play >>under OS/2 (March beta). The action simply freezes and the machine >>is dead; a reset is needed at this point. >>Any ideas? Anyone else having a similar problem with WC? > >I had the same problem, with OS/2 2.0. Can't offer you any advice, though. There are actually *many* different release levels of "Wing Commander I", put out as various bugs were found/fixed etc.. Some releases work better than others, but one thing I noticed that they (the three I tried) had in common was that they all worked more reliably when installed with fully expanded image/sound files.. ie. opt out of the "on the fly" decompression.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bmerh85!bmers63!mlord From: ml...@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Subject: Re: Wing Command I and OS/2 Message-ID: <1993May3.191824.22650@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Sender: ne...@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News) Organization: BNR, Ottawa, Canada References: <1s3kjoINNcju@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1s3o5r$fpr@bcarhd4.bnr.ca> Date: Mon, 3 May 93 19:18:24 GMT Lines: 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit