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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
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Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1262.0. "Disable DF1: (softwarewise)?" by TEACH::BOB (Bob Juranek EKO/339-4312) Sun Mar 20 1988 15:37

    Quick question:........
    
                  Have the game Destroyer by EPYX.  Try to run game
    with two disc drives on a 512K Miga with 1.2.  Get out of memory
    window.  Is there any way to use software to disable the recognition
    of the external drive (ala addbuffers df1: -X; where x is some value
    designed to subtract buffers).
    
    		Incedentaly, the game works fine with one disc connected.
    Disconnecting drives is a pain in the ...neck...
    
    		By the way, need help soon.  The kids love this game
    and I don't like constantly having to unplug the drive.  
    
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1262.1Unfortunuately.....WHYVAX::KRUGERTue Mar 22 1988 10:456
    No. You can't get those buffers back. But memory expansion isn't
    that bad.... And it has other benefits!
    
    dov
    
    
1262.2OK..but.......TEACH::BOBBob Juranek EKO/339-4312Tue Mar 22 1988 12:549
    re: -.1

	I realize that there is no way to GET THEM BACK.  My question is,
    is there a way to keep them from getting allocated in the first
    place, either by doctoring KS  or the bootblock of the game disk
    itself?
    
 	   Right now, memory expansion is out of the question until K.O. gives
    me a raise. (although it is high on my list of goodies)
1262.3well....WHYVAX::KRUGERTue Mar 22 1988 16:384
    I don't think it's legal, but you can try changing the mountlist
    entry. If you put 1 or 0 buffers, who knows what may happen!
    
    dov
1262.4BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonTue Mar 22 1988 17:386
    maybe a hardware fix that does the equivalent of unpluging the drive
    using a switch on some enable line?  just guessing, but I suspect
    EPYX copy protects the game and its a boot  disk - that makes a
    software fix not easy.
    
    -dave