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Technical forum / Distribution CD?

« on: September 27, 2004, 09:02:03 PM »

 
 I know virtually nothing about Linux, so that's a disclaimer right there, but shouldn't it be possible to make a boot-n-play game?

With MMRs tutorial on running Wintermute games under WineX, and using a self-booting distro of Linux (such as Knoppix, or Damn Small Linux), couldn't one download an ISO file, burn it to a CD, and then be able to boot directly into the game?

I realize that this approach would be more popular back in 1991, before the advent of useable multitasking operating systems, but I think that might be some of its draw to me - nostalgia.  Sort of like when we'd have to rewrite our config.sys files to get certain games to work. 

In other words, this idea is just kicking around for fun, not because I think it's useful.

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Technical forum / monitor humming?

« on: September 18, 2004, 05:25:21 PM »

 
My monitor makes a high pitched sqeal when running WME or Wintermute Games.  Any ideas? I've tried it with multiple monitors with the same effect... Does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks

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Technical forum / Distribution Package

« on: October 07, 2003, 06:37:41 PM »

Hi.  Is there any reason why the distributed version of my game would run on my computer fine, as long as it's in the same directory as the game files, but when I move it to another place, actors start to disappear?  When I run it on other computers, the game runs, but strange glitches occur.  I thought that I might be referencing a file outside of the package, but I looked through my code, and it seems ok.  Is there a way to check to see whether or not it's doing this?
  Thanks

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Technical forum / Down-Left

« on: September 29, 2003, 07:31:58 AM »

Hey folks.
  Any idea why my actor won't walk down and to the left?  He does, but he plays the left animation when he does it.  The sprites check out, the .actor file is fine, I just can't figure it out. I can post code from the log if necessary.
  Cheers

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Technical forum / Crashes

« on: September 27, 2003, 05:37:04 PM »

Hi Folks!
  I'm new here, and playing around with Wintermute.   I really like the way it'll handle what I'd like to do for my project.  I've been slowly learning it, and I had a working build of it, but it was very large.  I went to see that the bitmaps my actor was using were 225k a piece!  So I went and converted them to 4-bit indexed color to bring them down to 30k.  They look fine in Sprite Editor and the Program Manager's Actor Preview (he walks and everything), but the game crashes when I play it.  He turns (never converted those bitmaps), but as soon as he walks... crash.

here's the crash log file:
wme.exe caused a EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module wme.exe at 001B:00449543
EAX=00000126  EBX=00000000  ECX=00000000  EDX=00CBB1F0  ESI=00000000
EDI=00B344C8  EBP=0012FA10  ESP=0012F9D0  EIP=00449543  FLG=00010206
CS=001B   DS=0023  SS=0023  ES=0023   FS=0038  GS=0000
Stack trace:
001B:00449543 (0x00000000 0x00B34DB8 0x00B35DE0 0x00152400) wme.exe
001B:004185F1 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) wme.exe

 thanks in advance.  I hope not to make myself too much of a pest in the future. =)