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From: David Mc Dowell <david.mcdow...@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.games
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.