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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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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