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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Safedisk 2 (or whatever) - already killing me.

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las6
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 15:54
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I got the DBpro today, I was very pleased with it. Very nice Editor! and it's otherwise very nice.
But this "small" thing annoys me very much.

Every time I start the DBpro or the times it does the cd-check, my cd-drive hangs for a long time. even minutes.
I know it "hangs" because the drive spins for short time and then stops. Not continuos reading.

and what's the use of Safedisk anyway? You can take a perfect copy of it Clone-cd with ease...
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 16:06
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Does that drive work with other SafeDisk 2 programs ? If not, then it sounds like a CD drive that isn't compatiable.
If you've got a CD Writer, try re-installing and running the program from that.

I also presume the disk isn't badly scratched or anything like that...

Yes, I really am THAT good...
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Zero
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 16:27
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Today! Oh jippee! I can't wait till I get to home from the school. I think I'll get it today as I'm living in Finland as well.

Thanks.. great news, that has risen my mood up in this gray school-day full of boring math.

The evil plan is now even closer!
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Rob K
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 16:33
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Dittio las6's last point.

I am already running DBPro from a copy I made. I don't like using the original CD (I am paranoid that it will get damaged)

what is a signature?
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 18:03
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Patch 2 will resolve this, in the meantime you could try creating a short-cut to editor.exe on your desktop and using that instead. Should bypass the CD check (which is part of the launch.exe program IIRC, not the editor).

Cheers,

Rich

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Khumba
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 20:50
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That used to make me mad too (it took 2 minutes), but after I upgraded to Patch 1, then I only got it rarely when I compiled.
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Khumba
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 20:51
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And I am still using Launch.exe
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las6
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 21:44
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thanks for the info.

MrTAToad, yes it's an "old" CD-RW burner. It doesn't like all the dics, but usually most work ok.

Zero, I got in the morning. Luckily I was behind the door when the postwomen came... otherwise I would have needed to go pick it up from the post office.
so I was very close at not going to school at all...

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