SPY Fox 1: Dry Cereal:Crash on clicking 'start'

5x7 · Post by **5x7** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:46 am

In Mac os X port, ver 0.11.1. After linking to a directory on the HD with the four required files, and clicking start, ScummVM abrupty exits. SPY Fox 1: Dry Cereal was recently purchased (I think-it was a gift). The box says "only at Target (the Target bullseye). Could this be a more recent unsupported version, how can you tell? I have eight other games working fine in ScummVM.

Thanks

Kirben · Post by **Kirben** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:21 am

Sounds like a version of Spy Fox 1 that currently isn't supported, there were many different releases.

Start ScummVM via command line (with debug level 1) and report what it says:
ie scummvm -d1 spyfox

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:09 am

Very interesting. It's online here at target.com.

There's also a Freddi Fish 1 and a Putt Putt Saves the Zoo.

EDIT: They're also available at amazon.com (here, here, and here respectively).

Post by **sev** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:05 am

Yay, more HE versions to chase...

Eugene

5x7 · Post by **5x7** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:41 am

I fished around on the FAQ, and forums and tried running this command:
#!/bin/sh/Applications/ScummVM/ScummVM.app/Contents/MacOS/scummvm -d1 spyfox

I get a window with this near the end:

exit
-bash: !/bin/sh/Applications/ScummVM/ScummVM.app/Contents/MacOS/scummvm: event not found

So event not found. Do you think this is this an issue with the way the command was constructed? Thanks for the effort!

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:58 am

5x7 wrote: So event not found. Do you think this is this an issue with the way the command was constructed? Thanks for the effort!

No, that message has nothing to do with ScummVM. It's a feature of the command shell (in this case, bash). It keeps track of your command history (the commands you've typed before), and the '!' character can be used to refer to earlier commands.

You can see the command history by typing history. If I know I typed, say, scummvm-0.11.1 --no-aspect-ratio -g3x monkey2 earlier, and I want to do it again, I can simply type !scumm to run the most recent command that started with "scumm". I could also type something like !scumm:s/monkey2/atlantis/ to re-run the command, but with "atlantis" instead of "monkey2".

I never use this myself, because I don't like the feeling of doing something blindly. If I want an earlier command, I can usually just press the 'up arrow' key until I find it. Or press Ctrl-R to search for it.

Back to the original question... If you really typed

#!/bin/sh/Applications/ScummVM/ScummVM.app/Contents/MacOS/scummvm -d1 spyfox

I would have thought bash would have ignored the whole thing, since '#' marks the beginning of a comment. You probably only wanted the thing after "#!/bin/sh", like this:

/Applications/ScummVM/ScummVM.app/Contents/MacOS/scummvm -d1 spyfox

(Assuming that's where ScummVM is.)

In shell scripts, you will usually see a "comment" that starts with "#!" on this first line. This is known as a "shebang", and tells which program is used to run the script, and /bin/sh is the traditional location of the command shell.

(I hope I got at least most of the details right.)

5x7 · Post by **5x7** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:16 am

My Daughter played the game in windows, and I was able to start scummvm/spyfox from a command line in windows. I got the following:

Report this information to scummvm blah blah....

Scummvm gameid: spyfox, file spyfox.he0, MD5 23394c8d29cc63c61313959431a12476
readmaxs(52) Failed to read maxs data!

So, is that a new version? I hope this helps!
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Kirben · Post by **Kirben** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:34 am

That particular version of SPY Fox 1 has already been reported and supported, try using a recent daily snapshot of ScummVM 0.12.0svn.