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From: Marko_Mäkelä
Date: 1999-04-21
Subject: Re: Summer term sucks...
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Christian David Johannesdotter wrote:

> LUCA:
> Don't wait for a logo... I'm too busy searching for the meaning of life!
> Whenever I'll have a good one, I send it to you.

Logo, meaning or life? :-)

> However, they looked in their storage rooms and found 2 ATARI JOYPADS
> (with two fire buttons, I think these are not implied on the standard
> C64 Joyboard), I bought them, since 1.95 seemed to be a fair deal.
> Want one?

That would be a nice addition to my collection.

> Could it be that old DOS versions (any kind) won't boot from
> harddrives if the first sectors are damaged?

If I remember correctly, the boot sector among the first sectors, together with the partition table. You can use the undocumented command
"fdisk /mbr" to write the standard boot sector (master boot record). But don't ask me for M$-related things: I switched to Linux in 1993 and hated DOS all the years I had to use it (2 or 3 years, that is).

Do you have Sopwith (a really great CGA game)? You should try it on the Olivetti, or maybe even on the PC I. To make this message a bit more on-topic: Is there anything similar for the plus/4 or other Commodores?
Sopwith is a 2D flying game where you have to defend yourself from enemy planes and destroy all buildings on the ground. It's really nice, because you can also use bombs against aircraft and the machine gun against houses. And you may not shoot cows. Okay, there is Blue Max, but it's trying to be 3D, and there is no fixed playfield in that game.

Marko

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