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Re: Xenocide

In article <4j75hv$l64@borg.svpal.org>,
Paul Creager <wily@svpal.svpal.org> wrote:
> Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
> : >arekusu (eddy@cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
> : >: Is Xenocide ROM 3 compatible?
> : > 
> : >Sure is.  :)
> 
> : 	Actually, that's only true once you've removed the key-disk
> : protection by patching out a few bytes. Otherwise it refuses to run
> : from a ROM 3 system.
> 
> Are you talking about running it from a hard disk or a floppy?  It ran 
> just fine on my ROM 3 from floppy; no patching needed.

Ah, but which version?  As originally released, it had a colour code
protection scheme.  This version is probably the one that doesn't work
on a ROM 3.

I bought my copy from Resource Central (after Big Red Computer Club
got the stocks of Xenocide), and the colour code protection has been
disabled (it still asks you to select a colour, but it doesn't care
what you pick).  This one runs fine on my ROM 3, from hard drive or
floppy.

There is a catch: if you have your mouse acceleration set to a
non-standard value, it is very hard to manoeuvre.  I think the program
only knows about the original mouse speed settings used by the ROM 1
("normal" and "fast"), not the sliding scale provided by the ROM 3.
Setting the mouse speed back to its default fixes this, I think.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand