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Re: MYTH TOTAL CODEX: very bad UNINSTALL bug

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From: crazy...
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:00
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I DID NOT HAVE THE DEMO INSTALLED AT ANY TIME!  And it still wiped all
my entries under add, remove programs.  After talking with some other
people I don't think I am going to purchase anything from Bungie
anymore - there is absolutely NOTHING on their website about this, even
tho they are probably aware.

Dirk

In article <38a1a30...@news.mindspring.com>,
  asi...@hotHateSPAMmail.com (Baron Of Hell) wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2000 19:04:15 GMT, no...@none.net (Debaser) wrote:
>
> >  You shouldn't have to patch it. Both games in the Total Codex are
> >v1.3
> >  I didn't see any other patch on Bungie's site. Did I miss
something?
>
> Sorry about that, I guess the games in the total codex are patched.
> However, if you played the demo and you did not patch it, the bug in
> the demo will cause a bug in total codex games that will give you
> problems when uninstall.  If you did not install the demo, then you
> don't have to worry about anything.
>
> Here is a note I copied from gamespot:
>
> Editor's Note 12/31/98: The Myth II v1.0 demo contained a
>                  bug in its uninstaller program. This problem affected
> the demo  as well as the full version of the game. As a result, we
> removed the original demo from GameSpot. Bungie has now
> released that a new version 1.1 of the demo in which the
> uninstaller problem has been fixed.
>
> Remove HateSpam to email
> I think I played Doom one to many
> times.
>


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