Hack, how to pass stage 1 !

[Mark Henderson]

> I know its a silly question, how do you get pass the stage when " a mysterious
> force prevents you from going down " is printed. Thanks in Advance.
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You should say what version of hack you are using and where. I will assume
you are using some version of PC-HACK, probably its 1.03. If this is the
case the problem is likely in your HACK103.CNF file. It probably contains
a line "RAMDISK=d:", and you don't have a ramdisk in d:. The solution is
to delete this line. By the way, also delete the line
"LEVELS=c:\games\hack" if that exists. Everything should then work. Even
if this isn't applicable in your case, somebody else will probably find
it useful. 
I think that the author should have provided a more descriptive error
message like "Ramdisk not found". 

Mark Henderson

henderso at utcsri.UUCP
Dept. Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto