RNC (Rob Northern Cruncher) unpacking doesn't have safety and crashes when packed data is corrupt. If a graphical file is damaged but not packed, graphical corruption can happen, and the game could still be playable, but with packed files, the crash is almost guaranteed.Īnd files in this game are RNC packed all right. It's worse when files are packed than when not packed. If the file is corrupt or truncated and packed (for instance with RNC packer) the unpacking severely fails and crashes the machine. So if there's a sector error, the system is silenced and no requester pops up either. Now if one data file is corrupt, and the game doesn't check return value of the Read command, plus the game turns off all system requesters to avoid for instance that they pop up to ask for another disk and destroy the graphical screen set up by the game. If the disk sectors where executable itself is stored were corrupt, you'd probably get a message at bootup: failed to load executable, something like that. Syndicate uses a standard DOS format, and is completely OS compliant when it comes to disk operations.
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