DOTT crash when USE Stamp with Contract

angry_dragon · Post by **angry_dragon** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:01 am

Hi all,

I've been playing "Day of the Tentacle" (or DOTT) on a PC for a few days now; no problems.

Today I tried to solve a puzzle by combining the "Pony Express stamp" with the "Contract" to get my 2 million dollars for the diamond. (players will know what I'm talkin bout).

The instant I USE the stamp on the contract, with either of the characters, SCUMMVM shuts down instantly.
To be fully honest, it's not a legal copy. I know, I know... shame on me...

All ideas and/or suggestions more then welcome.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:23 am

angry_dragon wrote:To be fully honest, it's not a legal copy. I know, I know... shame on me...

In this case I suggest you get a legal copy of DOTT. Try eBay, for instance.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:30 am

angry_dragon wrote:To be fully honest, it's not a legal copy. I know, I know... shame on me...

All ideas and/or suggestions more then welcome.

Buy a legal copy and see if you can still reproduce it, perhaps? For several reasons, we can't provide support for pirated copies of games.

If you can reproduce it with a legal copy, please file a bug report. There have been some rumors about a crash like that.

angry_dragon · Post by **angry_dragon** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:51 pm

I was affraid of that...

Tnx for taking the time to answer anyway.

Cheers

Paulio · Post by **Paulio** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:23 pm

I have a legal copy of DOTT and I'm having the same problem with Scumm crashing when I use the stamp with the contract. I'd appreciate any help you could give.

abelthorne · Post by **abelthorne** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:42 pm

Paulio wrote:I have a legal copy of DOTT and I'm having the same problem with Scumm crashing when I use the stamp with the contract. I'd appreciate any help you could give.

As said above, you should file a bug report describing the problem.

BeerDeer · Post by **BeerDeer** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:39 pm

If ScummVM dissapears without any message its surely a script error. I'm going to check it myself.

angry_dragon · Post by **angry_dragon** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:12 pm

Weirdest thing: if you have the contract signed by the professor BEFORE you use the stamp on it, the game doesn't crash...

Tooplex · Post by **Tooplex** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:17 pm

angry_dragon wrote:Weirdest thing: if you have the contract signed by the professor BEFORE you use the stamp on it, the game doesn't crash...

Thats extreamly odd its never crahed with me oh well

timohepolis · Post by **timohepolis** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:13 pm

Weirdest thing: if you have the contract signed by the professor BEFORE you use the stamp on it, the game doesn't crash...

hi!
i´m german and i have the same problem. i tried both things:
1. use the stamp on contract without signature
2. use the stamp on contract with signature

in both cases scummvm crashes back to desktop!

pls help me

thx
timohepolis

edit: i use scummvm 0.9.0
edit2: i use a legal german retail version

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:50 pm

timohepolis wrote: i´m german and i have the same problem. i tried both things:
1. use the stamp on contract without signature
2. use the stamp on contract with signature

I know Fingolfin made a change earlier today which could possibly affect this problem. It would be helpful if you could try tomorrows SVN snapshot, assuming you're using an operating system for which there is a daily snapshot. (E.g. Windows.)

timohepolis · Post by **timohepolis** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:36 am

which SVN snapshot should i try for win32? source code bzipped or gzipped?
how do i use it?
sorry, i´m new.....

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:44 pm

timohepolis wrote:which SVN snapshot should i try for win32? source code bzipped or gzipped?
how do i use it?
sorry, i´m new.....

The ScummVM downloads page has a section called Subversion Builds. One of them - the only one that's updated regularly, I believe - is the Win32 Daily Snapshot. If you're using Windows, that one should work.

A "snapshot" means (in this case) that it was built from the development version of of the ScummVM source code. It usually works well, but it's not as well tested as the stable release. Occasionally, it's horribly broken.

The source code that you found is the human-readable (sort of) version of ScummVM. It has to be run through a compiler to produce an executable program, so it's only really useful if you're a ScummVM developer. Or just interested in seeing how things work, I suppose.

Gzip and bzip are two different ways of compressing files. While not technically correct, for all practical purposes you can think of them as ZIP and RAR archives.

timohepolis · Post by **timohepolis** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:47 pm

The ScummVM downloads page has a section called Subversion Builds. One of them - the only one that's updated regularly, I believe - is the Win32 Daily Snapshot. If you're using Windows, that one should work.

thanks.... first i´ve tried this site: www.scummvm.org/daily/

so i asked for the source code an bzipped/gzipped...

ok, i´m going to try the installer-version of "daily snapshot".... i´ll report the result

best regards
timohepolis

PS: really bad bandwidth: 0,5 kb/s (for germans)

timohepolis · Post by **timohepolis** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:39 am

THATS IT! it works!

with the newest daily snypshot

thx for your help!

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