Re: Destination Mars running from a RAM disk

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Oct 21, 11:07 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <613de576-4d8c-4140-ad67-99848d0f1...@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>
>
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>  magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've had problems getting Destination Mars to run on my GS using two
> > 3.5 disks. I can get into the game and start playing it but when it
> > needs to access the second 3.5 to continue running it says it can't
> > find the file. I've printed out the documentation from Asimov and the
> > disk are set up according to that documentation.
>
> > So I decided to try setting up a RAM disk on my GS, since I've got a
> > 4MB memory card installed, and use Flashboot to make it easier to save
> > the game and reload it to the RAM disk the next time I want to play. I
> > have the folder for Destination Mars set up exactly like the folder on
> > the HD image that I use with the Sweet 16 emulator. On the emulator
> > the game runs fine but from the RAM disk it will stay say it can't
> > find the files it needs.
>
> > Any one have any idea what I may be doing wrong? I'd really like to
> > play this game on the real Apple harware versus and emulator on my
> > Mac.
>
> Do you need to set the system prefix to the RAM disk when you start the
> game? Also, I think you can rename /RAM if need be.
>
> --
> John B. Matthews
> trashgod at gmail dot comhttp://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/

Flashboot allows you to boot the RAM disk once you've got the program
you saved with it loaded back in there. I might try renaming the RAM
disk something else and see if that works.

Thanks,
Dean