Re: Out of this World

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:

>I just received OOTW GS in the mail today.  Caught me totally by surprise,
>since I hadn't ordered it (turns out it was a birthday gift from a
>friend).  I popped it into the drive and tried to copy it to my hard
>drive.  Much to my chagrin, I was told the disk was bad.  _Actually_, it
>turns out that both of my floppy drives are screwed up (I think they need
>cleaning).

>Anyway, I managed to get it onto my hard drive and I cranked it up.  Man,
>oh, man, that story/demo at the beginning kicks!  The graphics are so
>cool!  The sound is hot!  The game is exciting!

>But (here it comes) every time I walk off the edge of a certain screen, my
>system crashes most terribly.  The game is really cool, but something
>_has_ to be done about the worst of the bugs.  I suspect that if I were on
>the right track, I'd be fine (since I have friends on other scenes -- I'm
>still on scene 2).

I have played OOTW all the way through (with the teensiest bit of help from
some nice people in comp.sys.a2, and a little bit more from the walk-thru posted
to c.b.a2 a little while back) and I never encountered a single system crash.
_I_ crashed many times, but it's not the same :-).

If you're having trouble with your drives it seems likely that your problems are
more likely to be coming from missing or garbled code in the files on on your 
hard disk as the result of copying errors.


>If you don't have Out of this World, _buy it_!  The more of us that buy
>this game, the more likely Interplay will keep giving us more of their
>cool stuff! :)

Hear, hear! And so say all of us!! It is refreshing to know that at least one of
the older companies is still prepared to take a risk on us, so if we can do our
part and actually buy their product they might see it worthwhile to produced
some more. 

>- Eric S.

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>Eric D. Shepherd                   | Apple II Alliance Charter Member
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>AOL:      Sheppy                   | doubt, rewrite from scratch."

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