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Re: Results - Re: Xgalaga anyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Dyer)
Sat Nov 9 14:18:19 1996
From: Wayne Dyer <dwdyer@eskimo.com>
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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:13:29 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961109084759.tdukes@netside.com> from "tdukes@netside.com" at Nov 9, 96 08:43:26 am
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tdukes@netside.com wrote:
[...]
> I'm having a problem with it too. I don't know all the terms you
> guys are using, but when I start the game and begin playing, after I
> make the first hit, the game crashes and disappears off the screen.
>
> I was thinking it was a memory thingy. I have 32 MEG of RAM and
> a Number Nine 771 w/2MEG video card. The game played fine under
> 3.03.
This sounds like the trouble I had. Turns out that xgal needs to have WRITE
permission do /dev/dsp. As root, just do "chmod o+w /dev/dsp". Now it lists like so:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 14, 3 Apr 25 1995 /dev/dsp
And it works fine. Otherwise it will dump core the first time a sound is played.
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