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#game trashed drive

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#29755From: David PaschallMay 4, 1993 6:21 PM
Michael, I just had a long day reformating my hard drive after downloading CHINAC.LZH (games library) and trying to run the program. When I tried to run the program from ram: by clicking on the icon I got the message that couldn't find a "tool". The "tool" was IconX misspelled, so I changed the tool to c:IconX using the information function on workbench. The game didn't run but my system froze and on reboot I got the message that preferences couldn't be found. Well I copied prefs form my 2.0 disk to my hard drive and then things really got interesting. I had directory opus and flipper (the bridge board program) iconified at the time of the freeze. I realize that I may have compounded the problem by my efforts to salvage the hard drive and that the whole problem may have been particular to my system but I felt I should give a "heads up". Anyway I learned a lot today! David
#29768From: Steve AhlstromMay 5, 1993 12:51 PM
David, I have no idea what you did but China Challenge runs fine on my 3000 and my 4000. And, IconX was not misspelled, it wants the program Xicon. Since I don't have Xicon I ran the China Challenge from the shell. -sja
#29771From: Michael GerardMay 5, 1993 3:16 PM
Ouch! By any chance was the 'mispelled IconX' Xicon? They are two _different_ tools.