Some praise and a technical problem

by **Christes** » 19 Feb 2012, 23:34

First off, let me say that I was very pleased to find an updated version of this game. I have many fond memories of playing this game (as well as many frustrating memories of trying to get it to work on XP - it was even old back then)

As soon as I saw this, I eagerly downloaded and installed it. Much to my amazement, it worked perfectly. I created a character and immediately began wiping the floor with the stupid AI in Shandalar. Awesome.

Anyway, after beating the game, I decided to play it again. So I created a new character. But this time the character creator glitched out. After I press "leave", I get an ugly box where the usual character image would be (picture attached). This "box is then used as the character image throughout the game.

This is a glitch that I am familiar with from playing the game before, but does anyone here have any idea what causes it? It's really strange that it worked the first time but not the second. It's a really minor nuisance compared to other things, I know. But I was just wondering if it can be fixed.

by **Huggybaby** » 20 Feb 2012, 21:56

There is probably some fix to your current problem, hopefully someone knows it.

DotP addresses illegal memory ranges, and there's no way to fix it short of reprogramming the game.

The most glitch free way to play this is probably with the original version in a Windows 95 virtual machine.

by **CirothUngol** » 22 Feb 2012, 06:22

...and you can find a couple of VMWare appliances that should do the job at the link in my signature (one Win98, one WinXP).

by **Christes** » 24 Feb 2012, 05:48

I love to try it on a virtual machine, but don't see any VMWare in the link in your signature. Maybe I'm just being blind.

I've tried many, many times to get a virtual machine working for my many old games, but I've never gotten one working.

by **CirothUngol** » 26 Feb 2012, 07:37

Look in "\Manalink 2.0\VMWare\" for Win98
Look in "\Manalink 2.x 20100109\VMWare\" for WinXP

Install latest VMWare Player and open the Virtual Appliance.

by **Christes** » 29 Feb 2012, 04:24

Hey, thanks for the help!

I got the windows XP version working and can create the character successfully, but it crashes every time I try to edit my deck. Any ideas? I can load the pre-existing saved games just fine.

The Win98 version appears to be missing part 3.