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2 total messages Started by Rob Henry Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:30
Anyone ever play GS empire?i have a problem with the program i think
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Author: Rob Henry
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:30
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When i hit s to start,it sys preparing the game for you,.
Then the screen goes blank and nothing happens,the drive stops and all.
It says it own't work with hercules and nmono graphics cards,.
I put my old mono text in and it still won't work.
The author says there are no graphics in it though.
Re: Anyone ever play GS empire?i have a problem with the program i think
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Author: Gordon Storga
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:07
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<1k6kbjINNb65@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) :
>When i hit s to start,it sys preparing the game for you,.
>Then the screen goes blank and nothing happens,the drive stops and all.
>It says it own't work with hercules and nmono graphics cards,.
>I put my old mono text in and it still won't work.
>The author says there are no graphics in it though.

The only requirement for my game is an ANSI.SYS compatable system and
"standard" video addressing.  I use ansi.sys for cursor positioning on
the screen (character graphics, no raster graphics) but I do a block
copy to video ram to update the whole screen at once.  If the cards you
are using, and the system you are plugging them into, is sufficiently
non-standard then the addressing may not work.  I could debug the
problem if I had the offending hardware, but the price of a CGA
standard card is so low as to be the far easier route for you.  I'm
really sorry.

For the record, I have tested GSEmpire on various toshiba laptops, on XT,
AT, and 486 systems, on various networks, and even on a Macintosh running
SoftPC emulation.  They all worked fine.  

Did you try each of the world sizes I sent you?  Try the smallest
(emp32.zip) to see if there are other memory problems.


Gordon
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