Floppy drive and Crack intro

[Sasuke]

Hi
Can the screenshots of the cracks present in the games cause any incompatibility or malfunction with PC floppy drives?

I ask because I encountered a strange case with the game Gremlins II - The New Batch (1990)(Elite).
In all Valhalla versions of the aforementioned game, immediately after the crack screen, the floppy drive heads get stuck near the sheet metal of the floppy drive itself, in the area at the end of track 79/81. You can hear the drive motor going under strain, and the heads remain stuck in that point.

Trying to load the same game with cracks other than Valhalla, everything works normally.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Sasuke

Hi
Can the screenshots of the cracks present in the games cause any incompatibility or malfunction with PC floppy drives?

I ask because I encountered a strange case with the game Gremlins II - The New Batch (1990)(Elite).
In all Valhalla versions of the aforementioned game, immediately after the crack screen, the floppy drive heads get stuck near the sheet metal of the floppy drive itself, in the area at the end of track 79/81. You can hear the drive motor going under strain, and the heads remain stuck in that point.

Trying to load the same game with cracks other than Valhalla, everything works normally.

Yes it is possible, quite rare though.

Try the Oracle crack

[Sasuke]

all other cracks including Oracle work, only Valhalla doesn't.

Does this mean that crack valhalla is bad?
Or is it a CIA problem on my A500?

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Sasuke

all other cracks including Oracle work, only Valhalla doesn't.

Does this mean that crack valhalla is bad?
Or is it a CIA problem on my A500?

It likely means that the Valhalla cracktro and that game specifically have problems.

All other instances of that Valhalla crackrro work fine, but its possible in conjunction with that game there is some piece of code that conflicts or doesn't properly set something up and the Valhalla cracktro exposes that, or vice versa

[Sasuke]

OK thank you.
Now I learned that certain crack intro can cause reading problems on the floppy drive.