I have been busy translating the game Randar 1 into English (which is completed now), but I discovered this game gives, a very annoying error message. I hope somebody can help me solve this problem.
If you run Randar 1 on a computer with more than 128kB RAM, there's no problem at all, everything runs fine. But when there's only 128kB RAM available, the error occurs.
Randar 1 uses the ramdisk to store data (using the SAVE"MEM:" command, since the game is mainly written in BASIC). The error that occurs, is a 'disk offline' error. Quite strange, since a ramdisk isn't something that should normally be able to be offline :).
The link is clearly visible: machines with more than 128kB RAM apparently have enough space to facilitate the Randar 1 ramdisk, machines with 128kB or less don't. But there are a couple of things that don't compute:
- Normally, BASIC doesn't use the extra memory space automatically if available. Therefore, it should have made no difference how much RAM is available
- The game is created to run on EVERY MSX2 or higher. It would be highly surprising if this game was meant to run on computers with more than 128kB.
By the way, it was not my translating that conceived this error - the Japanese version has exactly the same problem.
I must say that I used the RuMSX emulator to translate and test this game. The error didn't occur when I used the MSX2+ and TuR emulation, but things go wrong when using the MSX2 emulation. The MSX2+ of RuMSX is a Japanese one, making another link possible: the error occurs only on non-Japanese computers and actually has nothing to do with the amount of RAM available.
To go in short: I don't know what's the problem. I hope anyone can help me with this.
Bye, Rieks.
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