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  Clares Arcade 3 Compilation Matthew Thompson <mt@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> - 2015-07-23 19:14 +0100
    Re: Clares Arcade 3 Compilation Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2015-08-02 16:58 +0000
    Re: Clares Arcade 3 Compilation Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2015-08-30 15:48 +0100
      Re: Clares Arcade 3 Compilation Matthew Thompson <mt@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> - 2015-08-31 11:41 +0100

#328 — Clares Arcade 3 Compilation

I have just got hold of a copy of Clares Arcade 3 Compilation, but it 
doesn't seem to like RISC OS 3, the game runs as a Shift/Break - as 
many of the early games did but whilst the machine reboots instead of 
loading it tells me again that it needs shift/break to load.

I'm guessing that it is a RISC OS 2 only game, or maybe it's not 
compatible with my A4 laptop?, it was a (C) 1988 game so maybe it was 
written for Arthur?

Any help much appreciated
cheers
Matthew


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#329

Am Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:14:50 +0100 schrieb Matthew Thompson:

> I have just got hold of a copy of Clares Arcade 3 Compilation ...
> instead of loading it tells me again that it
> needs shift/break to load.

Eventually its a good idea to extract the text of the !Boot and the !Run 
Obey files (doubleclick + shift) and post it here.

SBn.

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#330

Matthew Thompson <mt@removethisred-squirrel.com> wrote:
> I have just got hold of a copy of Clares Arcade 3 Compilation, but it 
> doesn't seem to like RISC OS 3, the game runs as a Shift/Break - as 
> many of the early games did but whilst the machine reboots instead of 
> loading it tells me again that it needs shift/break to load.
> 
> I'm guessing that it is a RISC OS 2 only game, or maybe it's not 
> compatible with my A4 laptop?, it was a (C) 1988 game so maybe it was 
> written for Arthur?

Try:
*Configure Filesystem ADFS
*Configure Drive 0
*Configure NoBoot

Then shift-break should work.  However you'll have to put the settings back
to normal if you have a hard drive and want to boot from that instead.

*EXEC ADFS::0.$.!Boot is usually the way to run these without shift-break
(!Boot is usually a list of commands rather than an application),
however some games reconfigure the machine (unplugging modules to save
memory) and then reboot - you may fox them if starting them happens
differently.

Theo

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#331

In message <szd*YxmEv@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>
          Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> Matthew Thompson <mt@removethisred-squirrel.com> wrote:
>> I have just got hold of a copy of Clares Arcade 3 Compilation, but it
>> doesn't seem to like RISC OS 3, the game runs as a Shift/Break - as
>> many of the early games did but whilst the machine reboots instead of
>> loading it tells me again that it needs shift/break to load.
>> 
>> I'm guessing that it is a RISC OS 2 only game, or maybe it's not
>> compatible with my A4 laptop?, it was a (C) 1988 game so maybe it was
>> written for Arthur?

> Try:
> *Configure Filesystem ADFS
> *Configure Drive 0
> *Configure NoBoot

> Then shift-break should work.  However you'll have to put the settings back
> to normal if you have a hard drive and want to boot from that instead.

> *EXEC ADFS::0.$.!Boot is usually the way to run these without shift-break
> (!Boot is usually a list of commands rather than an application),
> however some games reconfigure the machine (unplugging modules to save
> memory) and then reboot - you may fox them if starting them happens
> differently.

Thanks for the replies to this , I'd completely forgotten about it, 
unfortunately the only working machine I have at the moment is my 
Iyonix and I don't think i'd get much joy out of that with this game, 
hopefully my A4 and A3000 will work again and I can try it on there.

cheers
Matthew



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