| From: | Hans-Joerg Frieden |
| Date: | 22 Apr 2000 at 09:55:42 |
| Subject: | Re: Heretic II demo bug !? |
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Fredrik Nilsson wrote:
> The first one, may not be cald bug but it's quite anoying.
> When I start Heretic II by dubbel-clicking on the "Run_HereticII" icon
> it starts in a window as it should but then suddenly it opens a new sceen
> where it dispalys fist the Hyperion logo then the Activision followed by
> Raven's then at last the Heretic II logo. After that it closes the screen
> again and everyting is as normal again. I don't know if this is a bug but
> it is quite anyoing that it opens a new sceen to dispaly those logos...
> why not display them in the window instead ?
The logos you see are really Smacker movies. They are 8 bits, so the
option of putting them into a window would mean that you have to
unsmack into an 8 bit buffer and then copy, which would be too slow -
not for those from the Demo, but for the 4+ minutes of rendered movies
in the game :)
The screen that is opened is 8 bit, so the unsmack can go there
directly. Only under AGA is the detour over an offscreen buffer used...
> Now to the problem. I fist started to change som of the kayboard controls to
> make them more user-friendly. But when I try to save the setting the
> computer hangs (don't know this word "lock up") playing the last second
> of the sound and I have to reboot. The result of this is that my harddrive
> partition gets unvalidated (FFS) and it takes about one hour
> to validate it again.
I think I know what is causing this. There was a truncated file in the
archive, that contains the in-game message strings, and this operation
will display some small message that it cannot find.
Usually, your configuration is automatically saved once you
exit. Everything is stored in the "user" directory, in a file
"config.cfg", which can also be edited using a normal text editor
(although of course the ingame method is much more confortable).
You find the fix on our web page. I will try to reproduce it, but this
definately does not happen in the full version...
> PS. Thanks for your great work with this fantastic game and i hope you sell
> many copies so that you port a lot of good PC games (if there are any) ;-)
There are... :)
Watch our web space ...
Regards, Hans-Joerg.