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From: EZBZYAZ@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Christopher Hayashida)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: MYST and Mitsumi FX001D
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 19:40
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
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Hi all,

I recently bought MYST at Fry's Electronics and am really enjoying it,
with the exception of a few things.  First of all, the game seems to
have unnatural pauses.  (One of them occurs in the beginning of the
game, when you go down the secret door to the cauldron.)

I was unsure whether or not this was an actual bug, then I read on this
newsgroup that a new version came out for owners of Mitsumi CD-ROM
drives.  So now I am wondering, will the upgrade help out my situation?

I would really like to get rid of the 30-60 second pauses that the
game seems to make every so often.

Just for the record, I have a 486/66 with 8MB, a Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM
drive, and am caching the drive with 64K via MTMCDAE and 20 buffers via
MSCDEX.  (Also, I am read caching it with SMARTDRV.)  I can't picture
that with all of this speed, the game would still run so slowly.

If anyone has any information about the new version of MYST, how much
it costs, and what exactly that it does, please e-mail me.

Thank you for your help,

Christopher Hayashida