Magic Mushrooms on RISC OS 3.7

[Martin Bazley]

I've been having problems getting Magic Mushrooms to run properly on
RISC OS 3.7. The front end seems to be doing something which the OS
really doesn't like, but it hasn't caused me any trouble on any other
OS.

Can somebody using 3.7 download the latest version of Magic Mushrooms[1]
(1.12) and confirm that it's not just a problem with my old and dodgy
RiscPC?

All that should be necessary is to double-click on the !MagicMush
application to launch the front end, then right-click on the icon it
puts on the icon bar to launch the editor. (I'm not even certain if
that last step is necessary.) Then attempt to use the Filer for a few
simple tasks - dragging levels into the editor window, for example. If
it's anything like my experience you won't manage to execute more than
three or four clicks or drags (possibly not even one) before the Filer
crashes with a data abort.

If anybody else manages to confirm this, I will at least know it's
definitely a bug - but I haven't got the faintest vestige of an idea of
where to start looking!

[1] http://www.starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/games.htm#magicmush

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[someone]

In article <8034e3b6...@blueyonder.co.uk>, Martin Bazley

<martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been having problems getting Magic Mushrooms to run properly
> on RISC OS 3.7. The front end seems to be doing something which
> the OS really doesn't like, but it hasn't caused me any trouble on
> any other OS.

I can't get the game to run. I get an arror messgae saying something
like ....

audio tracker timplayer not found at line 26

The editor works though.... if clickin on the icons in the 'tools'
box, then clicking to place on the black screen is 'working' ...!!

I can't see anything about levels ....

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[Martin Bazley]

The following bytes were arranged on 30 Jul 2012 by someone :

> In article <8034e3b6...@blueyonder.co.uk>, Martin Bazley
> <martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've been having problems getting Magic Mushrooms to run properly
> > on RISC OS 3.7. The front end seems to be doing something which
> > the OS really doesn't like, but it hasn't caused me any trouble on
> > any other OS.
> I can't get the game to run. I get an arror messgae saying something
> like ....
>
> audio tracker timplayer not found at line 26

Did you by any chance read the !Help file?

> The editor works though.... if clickin on the icons in the 'tools'
> box, then clicking to place on the black screen is 'working' ...!!

What I'm more interested in is whether the computer was still usable
afterwards. This only seems to apply to RISC OS 3.7 - I can't get it to
crash on other systems.

I've had at least one confirmation so far:

http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11945&page=1#120862

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[someone]

In article <f74ba2b7...@blueyonder.co.uk>, Martin Bazley

<martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Did you by any chance read the !Help file?

No = of course not!!

Working now.

> > The editor works though.... if clickin on the icons in the
> > 'tools' box, then clicking to place on the black screen is
> > 'working' ...!!

No problems enocuntered. Dragged loads of elevels, adding stuff to
each ... no crash

> What I'm more interested in is whether the computer was still
> usable afterwards. This only seems to apply to RISC OS 3.7 - I
> can't get it to crash on other systems.

RO 3.7 and it is fine.

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