Zork Nemesis on my laptop cd 1 error
Mike Allegretto
to insert cd 1 when it is in the drive.
Eric Postpischil
> When i try to play this game on my single cd laptop it keeps asking me
> to insert cd 1 when it is in the drive.
I had a similar problem with Zork Grand Inquisitor on a laptop. I
suspect Activision's copy protection does something to try to see if the
CD is really present. Laptops commonly have some sort of bay-swapping
software in between the physical drive and the drive as seen by the
application. If that bay-swapping software does not emulate the drive
properly or the copy protection software expects more than the CD
specification calls for, there can be an error.
I was able to work around this by disabling the bay-swapping software,
with the result that the physical drive was more directly presented to
the application. You do not say what operating system you are using or
what model of laptop. Here are instructions, as I recall, that worked
on my system.
First, make a complete backup of your system so that you can restore it
in case you screw things up.
If "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSCONFIG.EXE" is present on your system, run it.
Click on the Startup tab. Scroll through the items and see if you can
identify the bay-swapping software. On my Compaq Presario, there are
two items, labeled "BaySwap" and "BaySwap2". Click the checkbox on each
of these to disable it. Click Okay.
I think at that point you will be prompted to reboot your system. If
so, go ahead. If not, close MSCONFIG and reboot.
Upon rebooting, the system will warn you that you are running with some
things disabled. That's okay. Try Zork Nemesis. If it works, great.
When you are ready to re-enable the bay-swapping software, run MSCONFIG
again and select Normal startup. Then click Okay and reboot.
If you want to run with the bay-swapping software disabled for a while
without getting the reminder at boot time, there are ways to disable it,
but you have to edit the system registry. Don't do that unless you know
what you are doing and/or you have a complete backup.
-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
http://edp.org