Re: Joust game

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

golfrock wrote:
> I pulled out my disks to do some retro gaming.  The Joust disk started
> up fine in my ROM 1 which has a 4MB card in it.  I played a few games
> and then played some other games only to go back to Joust and have it
> freeze up just as I begin to fly around.  Reboot, same thing.  Today,
> it booted up fine and again I played a few games then later it
> freezes.
>
> Very strange.  Anything else plays fine.  I cleaned the drive heads.
>
> This is the one game that you don't see much on eBay like the others.
>
> I suppose the disk could be getting a bad sector.  I will try again to
> copy it but I don't think CII+ could do it the last time I tried.

You might want to run a RAM test.  Intermittent/marginal RAM can easily
cause freezes, and there's more stuff to fail in RAM than in anything
else on your machine.

-michael

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