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From: dzubera@CS.ColoState.EDU (Slow Progressing TA)
Subject: Problems with MV Forever Growing Garden (any clues welcome)
Message-ID: <1994Feb23.035650.73216@yuma>
Date: 23 Feb 94 03:56:49 GMT
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Brief version:  MV Forever Growing Garden begins to load, plays a couple
of bars of music, and hangs.  No amount of twiddling IRQ, DMA #s, and 
port addresses on either the SCSI card or the Logitech Soundman 16 card
has any effect.  Strangely, if I fill the keyboard buffer before the 
initial screen comes up, the program will go a little farther, 
including bringing up the opening screen and even playing some bird chirps.
(It still hangs after that).  Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated.

Details:

System: Gateway 2000 20 mhz 386/DX, upgraded to (sorta) 486 20/40 with
		Cyrix 486DRX^2.
		8 Meg
		ATI Wonder 512K VGA card 
		NEC SCSI CD-AT160 controller
		NEC 3Xp cd-rom
		Maxtor SCSI hard drive
		Seagate RLL hard drive
		Modem on COM1
		Mouse on COM2
		Printer on LPT1
		MSDOS 6.2 
		Windows 3.1 (using 27 Meg temp swap file)
		QEMM 7.03

What the problem isn't:

the CPU upgrade (the program didn't work before the upgrade)
QEMM (the program didn't work before QEMM)

IRQ settings:

I've tried the SCSI card at 5 and 11, and the Soundman (in SB compatibility
mode) at 7, 5, 3 and 2.  No luck.

Everything else seems to be working.  CD and SCSI disk are accessed
without a hitch; Soundman plays other games sounds.  
I can even play audio cds and a game that uses the Soundman at the same time 
(mix of game sounds and audio comes out speakers just fine).

I've been pulling my hair out for about 3 weeks now (spare time only :)
trying to get it to work.  MV telephone support was of no help.

Please, if you have any suggestions, they would be most welcome.

(post or mail, whichever is easier for you)

Thanks,
Zube