serrated scalpel
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07/30/03 09:52 PM
07/30/03 09:52 PM
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Posts: 7,188 Long Island, N.Y.
fildil
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I have just reached the part of the game when Holmes throws the typewriter through the office door and my computer just shut down. Did this happen to anyone else? Is there a patch for this game? Unfortunately, I hadn't saved for a while and I hate to have to go back and do everything again if the game is going to shut down my computer again. Usually a game just throws you back to the desktop. I don't know why my computer just shut down and restarted.
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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Re: serrated scalpel
#134790
07/30/03 11:40 PM
07/30/03 11:40 PM
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Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 31,224 Northwestern New Mexico, USA
Jenny
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Fil, I couldn't find anything about a patch for this game either. I assume you've done the "shut down everything except Explorer and Systray" routine? Have you tried lowering your graphic accelerator?
I'm going to transfer this down to the Glitches forum, to see if the tech geniuses down there have any more suggestions...
"Once you give up integrity, the rest is easy." Anonymous
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Re: serrated scalpel
#134791
07/31/03 12:09 AM
07/31/03 12:09 AM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 40,644 southeast USA
Jenny100
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Sometimes DOS games reboot your computer if they run out of whatever type of memory they're using or are having some sort of difficulties with your hardware. Are you playing in DOS or Windows? There is a patch called Sherlock.zip here . Here's what it says in the readme: 4/20/92
The Sherlock Holmes 1.02 update corrects the following problems:
o Screen flashing in the video player would occur with old VGA cards on slow PCs.
o Setting the sound card to a DMA channel other than 1 would cause Sherlock to lock up or mute the audio. You can now set the DMA to 0, 1, 2, or 3. Please refer to your sound card users manual for directions on changing the DMA channel.
o Setting the Sound Blaster Pro's interrupt to 2 or 10 would cause Sherlock not to recognize that a sound card was installed.
To use the updated version of Sherlock, copy the SHERLOCK.EXE file included in this package onto your hard drive or a floppy disk. Change to the directory where the new SHERLOCK.EXE file is located and type "SHERLOCK". The program will automatically find the CD drive containing Sherlock Holmes.
If this update does not fix your problem, please contact ICOM Simulations Technical Support by phone at 708/520-4440 between 9AM-6PM CST, by fax at 708/459-7456, or send mail any of the following accounts:
Compuserve: 76702,1604 America On-Line: ICOM1
I don't know if this will help with your program or not.
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Re: serrated scalpel
#134792
07/31/03 12:22 PM
07/31/03 12:22 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 7,188 Long Island, N.Y.
fildil
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Hi Jenny, Surprise, surprise, I'm playing this game in DOS. As a matter of fact, since I got this game to run, I thought I'd try Flight of the Amazon Queen. You know where that got me. Can you play most of the game before the memory runs out? I'm almost at the end and I don't want to start fooling around with configs or anything. Do you think that if I delete my saved games, it would run?
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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Re: serrated scalpel
#134794
07/31/03 07:25 PM
07/31/03 07:25 PM
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Posts: 7,188 Long Island, N.Y.
fildil
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Thanks again Jenny (you've been hearing that a lot lately from me huh?) but I couldn't begin to find the files with the saved games or if I did, I wouldn't be able to send it to you. My computer skills are next to nil and I don't know what possessed me to try my hand at DOS games. I'm playing the game from a CD called Top Ten Pak. It has ten games on it and I guess I was so thrilled that I actually got it to run that I got over confident and decided to try Amazon Queen. I'll stick to the newer games, you know the kind that you stick in the CD and it runs.
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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