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David Mc Dowell

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More options 29 Mar, 08:56

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From: David Mc Dowell <david.mcdow...@ntlworld.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:56:30 GMT

Local: Sat 29 Mar 2008 08:56

Subject: Re: sf3000 next gen

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In message <20d05e874f.dougjw...@btopenworld.com>
Doug Webb <doug.j.w...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> In message <7fed4c874f.dougjw...@btopenworld.com>
> Doug Webb <doug.j.w...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > In message <4fb844874f.MThomp...@mt.riscos.org>
> > Matthew Thompson <m...@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> wrote:

> > [snip]

> >> Not that it's any help but thats the same situation here for me, I'm
> >> guessing but perhaps the !Run file needs amending to stop it looking
> >> at the CD ?
> > Yes done this as I said to get it to see the SF3000 resources but get
> > blank screen after the intro and a return just puts me back at the
> > desktop so obviously there is an erro but i can't see what it is and
> > there's nothing is Syslog either.

> [snip]

> OK, I've sorted it.

> By chance I thought I'd try it on my Kinetic RISCPC and it worked
> after altering the !Run file to take account of the harddisc location.

> So I thought I'd check the files between those copied on the Iyonix
> and those on the RISCPC running adjust.

> Well I found that in the SF-Resources some files on the Kinetic
> machine had a star in the name like Animations.Chemical*anim but on
> the Iyonix these had been copied as Animations.Chemical_anim.

Doug, Thanks for the !Run mods, thats helpful, Intro now fully plays. On both
my Iyonix 5.13 and Kinetic RO 4.32.

CDROMFS in my Iyonix doesn't corrupt the filenames with '*' in them copies
them as is!

However I have a Xerox 22" wide screen LCD monitor which won't handle
the large range of modes that my CRT did so a Error 'Screen mode not
available' is no surprise... so I in common with lots out there with
certain LCD's are a bit stuck to actually play the game!:-( Any idea what
mode !SF3000 is looking for?

> So I copied the Kinetic RISCPC version of SF3000NG over to the Iyonix,
> amended the !Run file and run it and it worked.

> Looks like a case of the old CDFS in the Iyonix doesn't like the
> naming convention.

> Only other issue is that the voice message at the start is a bit quick
> and sounds like Donald Duck on speed!

Regards, David.

David Mc Dowell: RISC OS 4 Authorised Installer
Acorn User since discovering the 'Atom' in 1979
Member: Cambridge RISCOS User Group (CAMRUG)
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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