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- From: kperic@vms.eurokom.ie (Konstantin Peric S.W.I.F.T.)
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- Subject: Strange NEC CDROM behaviour - help
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.115623.12175@vms.eurokom.ie>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:14:54 GMT
- Organization: EuroKom Conferencing Service
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- Hello,
-
- I've recently bought a NEC CD Rom drive (model CDR-25) to connect to my
- Mac II SI. Along with the drive, I also bought the "Sherlok Holmes consulting
- detective" game. The game contains many real-time video parts.
-
- The problem is that the game crashes ("corrupt scene file") randomly when
- playing the video scenes. Sometimes, it'll play out the entire scene, and othe
- times it will crash at random intervals.
- I get the same behaviour on a Mac II SI running 7.0 (with tuner) and on a CX
- running 6.0.7.
- Just before the crash, the screen gets somewhat garbled, so currently I'm
- suspecting the NEC driver to cause memory problems (the NecCDDrvr that came
- with the drive is version 2.25).
- I've played a lot of other CD-ROMs, including some containing QuickTime movies
- without problems...
-
- Has anyone experienced the same problems? Any comments welcome.
-
- Konstantin Peric
- kperic@vms.eurokom.ie
-