Re: Raycasting 3D demo disk

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Feb 3, 10:54 pm, David Schmenk <dschm...@YUCH.gmail.com> wrote:
> magnusfalkirk wrote:
> > On Feb 2, 9:36 am, David Schmenk <dschm...@GACH.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Dean-
> >> If the image works fine on an emulator, try using a different 5 1/4
> >> disk.  These things are getting old and quite often get bad sectors.  I
> >> just got one yesterday doing the same crash as yours.
>
> >> As for a game; patience, young one :-)  I just got the sprites working
> >> so its time for game content and creation tools.
>
> >> Dave...
>
> > Dave,
>
> > I guess it was the disk. I tried copying the raydemo.dsk to two other
> > real disks. The first one failed just like before. The second one
> > booted all the way into the demo. Young one, huh? I bought my first
> > Apple II+ back in 1981 and I graduated high school the year before
> > Apple Computer got started. ;-)
>
> > Thanks for the advice.
> > Dean
>
> Dean - glad to hear it.
>
> Sorry for the young one remark.  I've got a birthday coming up and am
> feeling particularly old and decrepit.  Officially forty-something.
> However, I got a boost to my psyche when I showed my current
> work-in-progress to my fiancee's teenage boys and they said it was
> 'cool'.  After which they went back to playing Oblivion on the XBOX 360.
> Oh well.
>
> Dave...

Augh!  You people.  I just turned 30 two days ago. :-D