ADRIFT games don't run
Timofei Shatrov
I try to open the file, the interpreter hangs for 5 minutes then
displays an error box: "Error loading adventure: input past end of file
(blabla)". This happens for every ADRIFT game I tried. Should I just
give them all 1 point, or there is a solution to that problem?
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Mike Snyder
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>
> I try to open the file, the interpreter hangs for 5 minutes then
> displays an error box: "Error loading adventure: input past end of file
> (blabla)". This happens for every ADRIFT game I tried. Should I just
> give them all 1 point, or there is a solution to that problem?
Whenever I've had this happen, it always worked fine to start ADRIFT first,
and then "open" the game from inside.
--- Mike.
dwh...@gmail.com
Try opening the Adrift Runner, then going to Adventure -> Open
Adventure and seeing if that works.
David Kinder
> I try to open the file, the interpreter hangs for 5 minutes then
> displays an error box: "Error loading adventure: input past end of file
> (blabla)". This happens for every ADRIFT game I tried. Should I just
> give them all 1 point, or there is a solution to that problem?
You could always try running them with SCARE, rather than the standard
ADRIFT interpreter (assuming that you're not already, you didn't say!):
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXadrift.html
David
Steve Evans
wrote:
>
>I try to open the file, the interpreter hangs for 5 minutes then
>displays an error box: "Error loading adventure: input past end of file
>(blabla)". This happens for every ADRIFT game I tried. Should I just
>give them all 1 point, or there is a solution to that problem?
They all load fine for me using the Adrift runner packaged for the
Comp (Version 4.00 R46), and with the Windows Glk & Gargoyle versions
of Scare 1.3.3.
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/adrift/scare-1.3.3_win.zip
or
http://ghostscript.com/~tor/download/gargoyle/
You might want to try Scare if you're having trouble with the native
runner.
--Steve
Timofei Shatrov
with this message:
>If you can't get the games to run, you shouldn't vote on them all.
Well, Adrift Runner is supposed to run under Win98, and these games are
supposed to run under Adrift Runner. So their inability to run
constitutes a fatal bug, I think.
>Try opening the Adrift Runner, then going to Adventure -> Open
>Adventure and seeing if that works.
It doesn't...
dwh...@gmail.com
I see my belief that some of the people on RGIF have a prejudice
against Adrift was way off. :(
If the games aren't running for you, but they are for other people,
then clearly the problem is with *your* computer. You've probably got
something installed on your system that is causing a conflict with the
Adrift program.
Mike Snyder
> I see my belief that some of the people on RGIF have a prejudice
> against Adrift was way off. :(
I don't think it's a prejudice against Adrift. I'd expect the same no matter
what the game.
> If the games aren't running for you, but they are for other people,
> then clearly the problem is with *your* computer. You've probably got
> something installed on your system that is causing a conflict with the
> Adrift program.
But, I agree with you that a "1" takes the low road. It has always irked me
on download/ranking sites when people give the lowest score not to a *bad*
game, but to one they simply couldn't figure run on their computer. That's a
no-ranker, not a low-ranker, and IMO it's very unfair to score something you
haven't even played. In general, I mean. Not that I'm discussing comp
entries or anything.
--- Mike.
David Kinder
> If the games aren't running for you, but they are for other people,
> then clearly the problem is with *your* computer. You've probably got
> something installed on your system that is causing a conflict with the
> Adrift program.
Since Timofei is Russian (at least, his email address ends with .ru) it
may be that the Adrift Runner doesn't like running on Windows systems
where the default character set isn't Western European. I seem to dimly
recall other people complaining about the same issue in the past, though
I can't seem to find the messages now.
Windows Scare may be worth trying in this case.
David
Timofei Shatrov
with this message:
>So that makes giving all the games a 1 fair then?
>
>I see my belief that some of the people on RGIF have a prejudice
>against Adrift was way off. :(
>
>If the games aren't running for you, but they are for other people,
>then clearly the problem is with *your* computer. You've probably got
>something installed on your system that is causing a conflict with the
>Adrift program.
Well, I downloaded SCARE and it works. So, for now, your game's ass is
safe :)
Charon
>
> Since Timofei is Russian (at least, his email address ends with .ru) it
> may be that the Adrift Runner doesn't like running on Windows systems
> where the default character set isn't Western European. I seem to dimly
> recall other people complaining about the same issue in the past, though
> I can't seem to find the messages now.
Yep, I had the exact same "input past end of file" error when I'd
changed my settings to play some Japanese games. The error went away as
soon as I switched the language settings back over to English.
Simon Baldwin
- It tries to implement as much of the Adrift Runner as it can, and
as accurately as it can. There may be places, though, where it's not
complete or accurate; after all, it's the result of reverse
engineering. Please try to allow for this possibility when scoring a
game (perhaps by playing it in the real Runner for comparison, if you
can).
- It automatically expands a few abbreviations ('y' -> 'yes', for
example), and this can sometimes confuse Adrift games. I believe this
make the introductory text in "The Plague" inaccessible. In this and
other cases, you can use SCARE's "-na" command line flag, or the
command "glk abbreviations off" while in the game, to turn off
expansions.
Boluc Papuccuoglu
out that the problem was ADRIFT had problems when the default codepage
of the system was different from US English (Turkish in my case, but
probably Russian in yours). You can use SCARE or change the code page
from control panel->regional settings.
Hope this helps.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:30:02 GMT, gr...@mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov)
wrote:
>On 9 Oct 2005 08:01:21 -0700, dwh...@gmail.com tried to confuse everyone
Campbell
http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/new/adrift.cgi?script=viewbug&args=185
It will be resolved in a future version.