So I'm getting pissed. I've got a number of Disney cds (not for me, for my 3 year old daughter) and every so often they decide, yup, you gotta install me again buddy. Even though all the content (as far as I can see) is on the hard drive now, it still needs the cd in the drive. For most of these I've gotten around that on her imac by making disk images and having them mount (shrinkwrap) on startup. But the Pooh ones just don't see the disk image as the true cd.
The worse out of the bunch is the new one as part of the 'Piglet's Big Movie' marketting ploy. I hate to rag on anyone if they did the work (since all these cds are director) but this 'smart' player just ain't smart. Not only will it not see the cd in the drive, but every so often (I think it's some shared preference with another Pooh game) but it also requires a total re-install of the same content I'm re-installing over -- including reinstalling quicktime on the imac, an older quicktime than I had on there. Thanks much Disney. It seems a lot of the Disney content might be open anyway (I think a quick persusal of the hard drive while a kid climbs all over me showed me that some of the files weren't protected) - or at the very least I noticed a preference/text file with global settings in it for things such as 'play from hard drive' etc I might fool with. The other Pooh game is worse, with only a 'Place the Pooh Toddler cd in the cd drive' alert, which, even if the cd is in just means a forced restart when it's not seeing it. Thanks again. Guess you don't know what it's like trying to get a game ready for a kid that's screaming in your ear. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
