On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 01:11:17 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Chris Young wrote: > > > I think I've mentioned this in passing before, but I was having a play > > around with ADFFS and encountered it again, in a way that proves > > HostFS has a problem (at least here). > > > > The below file: > > http://acorn.revivalteam.de/Download/Images/GameDemos16.zip > > > > When mounted with ADFFS and run direct from there, the Lemmings demo > > will work. > > > > When copied to a HostFS drive, it doesn't (the Psygnosis and Krysalis > > logos come up, then the screen goes blank and eventually it quits back > > to the desktop) > > > > Assuming it's not just me, there's obviously something it's doing that > > HostFS doesn't like. > > I ran into a similar issue myself with Lemmings 2 (and its demo). Although > I can't remember the specifics, I think the problem was that they had some > code in there which tried to work out which drive number the game was > running from. Since HostFS doesn't use drive numbers the game would fail > to run properly. Presumably you'd run into the same issue if you tried it > on real hardware with a filing system like ShareFS, or even ResourceFS > (assuming it doesn't mind a read-only FS). > > When I get a minute I'll have a look at the Lemmings demo and see if it's > the same problem.
Sounds likely. I think I have another demo which doesn't run too, so I'll try that from ADFFS when I get chance. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev -- arcem-devel mailing list arcem-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel
