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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2682.0. "AMIGA SAVE" by KETJE::VANWAMBEKE () Mon Jun 26 1989 12:46

    HI,
    
    	I am trying to use DeluxeMusic construction Set and have problems
    saving scores to the disc : when saving after having given the disc and
    filename, the software keeps asking me to put the disc in the
    disc-drive, although it is loaded in it ... When trying to save to a
    datadisc with name DMCS, i get the message that it could not save the
    score to the disc. Any idea ? 
    
    	PAUL

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2682.1	more info needed	SAUTER::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Mon Jun 26 1989 13:58`	4
	I'm not sure what you're doing to get these symptoms. I always type in the device and directory in the "drawer" part of the requestor. Is this what you are doing? Do you have two floppies? A hard disk? John Sauter
2682.2	unable to save	KETJE::VANWAMBEKE		`Tue Jun 27 1989 08:20`	15
	I have a A500 with 1 mb and only one drive. Yes, I give the device and directory in the drawer part of the directory. The only answer from the machine is a system pop-up with " puth device DATA2 into df0: " ( and the disc IS in the drive ! ). I have also tried to copy DMCS into RAM and run it from there : SAVE AS does not work because of " device RAM: is full ". Thats impossible since I have .3 mb free at that time. Thanks for helping me out of this frustrating situation. PAUL
2682.3		SAUTER::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Tue Jun 27 1989 11:18`	10
	I'm afraid I can't be much help, since I've never used your configuration. The DMCS copy protection requires that its floppy be in a drive. I hear that Electronic Arts has a non-copy-protected version of DMCS; if you don't have that you might try to get it, and put it in RAM, so you can save your music to DF0. Alternatively, you should consider getting a second floppy drive. It adds significantly to the convenience of the Amiga. John Sauter
2682.4		UFP::LARUE	Jeff LaRue - MAA Senior Network Consultant	`Thu Jun 29 1989 17:35`	4
	fyi- EA has been shipping DMCS as a non-copyprotected product for at least a year....that's when I bought mine. -Jeff
2682.5	Wild guess time	EMC2::PELLATT	Stand in the place where you are	`Tue Jul 04 1989 11:17`	10
	I've got a bog standard A500, 512K and 1 drive ( not for much longer though ! ) and have no trouble using DMCS, though I recall that it's a bit fussy about disk/drawer/file names etc. As a wild guess, maybe the disk name DMCS is making it look for the original program disk ( i.e. looking for whatever special ID the copy protect uses as well ) and not just a disk named DMCS. Try naming your data disk something else ? Dave.