From: fu499@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Deater)
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Subject: marathon installer program
Date: 29 Dec 1994 04:50:40 GMT
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finally got marathon today!  haven't had much of a chance to
play it yet, but did anyone else think the installer was a little
strange?  going from disk 1 to disk 4 and back, etc.  and then
finally when it was done, all the disk icons were still on my 
desktop.  i've never had any other program install like this.

doesn't matter much though, the game is still tits.





From: kbs3387@silver.sdsmt.edu (Kevin Stone)
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Subject: Re: marathon installer program
Date: 29 Dec 1994 11:25:58 GMT
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: finally got marathon today!  haven't had much of a chance to
: play it yet, but did anyone else think the installer was a little
: strange?  going from disk 1 to disk 4 and back, etc.  and then
: finally when it was done, all the disk icons were still on my 
: desktop.  i've never had any other program install like this.

        No kidding... Bungie is a Mac only company, you would think they 
would know how to right an installer program that made sence to the 
user.  Even though I had no trouble eventual installing the program, to 
the layman user, the intructions that come with the manuel are USELESS.  
Bungie is a bit confused I believe.  Perhaps they are simply overwhelmed 
with such a big project.  Because of which, many small things may slip 
through undetected.  I would like to congradulate Bungie on the producing 
the finest Mac game yet.  Unfortunately it's one that contains a 
multitude of little anoyances and frustrating bugs.  Perhaps next time 
will be better :)

KBS





From: ibhan@fas.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
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Subject: Re: marathon installer program
Date: 29 Dec 1994 18:28:17 GMT
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I agree, the installer is truely horrible.  My guess is that it was a 
last minute job.  It's just a self-extracting CompactPro Archive.  Copy 
it all to your hard disk and put it in a folder.  Then run it.  Should go 
much smoother.
-- 
Ishir Bhan
ibhan@fas.harvard.edu





From: tuncer@mcs.com (Tuncer Deniz)
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Subject: Re: marathon installer program
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 08:50:22 -0600
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In article <3dtf70$ckq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fu499@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
(Thomas Deater) wrote:

> finally got marathon today!  haven't had much of a chance to
> play it yet, but did anyone else think the installer was a little
> strange?  going from disk 1 to disk 4 and back, etc.  and then
> finally when it was done, all the disk icons were still on my 
> desktop.  i've never had any other program install like this.
> 
> doesn't matter much though, the game is still tits.

The installer is definately weak. Bungie tech support is getting a ton of
calls because a lot of people don't know what the final segment means.
They are going to change the installer, but who knows when.

Tuncer

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