Re: A82: Computer crashed...


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Re: A82: Computer crashed...




At 09:14 PM 1/5/98 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 98-01-05 17:31:12 EST, you write:
>
>> Stupid computer!  Yesterday, I typed in "clock$" at the DOS prompt and my
>>  computer's CMOS RAM was deleted and it took me a long time to get it back
>>  so I could log onto my ISP again...still don't know if everything is
>>  working right.  So, I couldn't do anything on SQRXZ 82.  Wait, I take that
>>  back, I got the jumping/falling routine straightened out by drawing the
>>  sprites by hand on my calculator...yuck :)
>>  
>>  Moral of this story:  Don't ever type "clock$" and press enter at the DOS
>>  prompt or your life will be screwed up.  However, if you have a
>>  super-clunky network at school and want free-time, tell everyone in the
>>  room to boot to DOS by bypassing the network drivers and then type it in
>>  and reboot.  Havok will occur on the network in less than 2 minutes :)
>
>just make sure you have a backup of SQRXZ... :-)
>drawing the sprites by hand isn't so bad...how do you get your sprites
without
>first doing this?
>
>~Adamman

SQRXZ 82 wasn't touched, but I lost access to everything for a really long
time.  I wasn't drawing very many sprites since I was trying to get the
jumping routine (still under development) to work properly with the
squashing and collision detection routines.  The drawing of the actual
sprites comes right near the end of development.  I would prefer to have a
program where I can design a sprite and place it anywhere on the GRAPH_MEM
where I can edit it later.  This would allow for faster development.  I
just might create a program like this once I'm done with SQRXZ.


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