Weird Issue - Running "Nemiac IV: Director's Cut" from Workbench 3.1

[DamienD]

Heya guys,

Got a very strange issue that I've spent the last 30 minutes or so trying to resolve but without success...

Regarding Nemiac IV: Director's Cut; if I install this and run via ClassicWB 3.1 then all is good

If I run this via standard Workbench 3.1, then the game fails to load...

Using SnoopDos in ClassicWB 3.1, I can see that after launching the game it looks to the CD-ROM and executes "Movies.ani":



Using SnoopDos in standard Workbench 3.1, I can see that after launching the game the line where it executes "Movies.ani" is <blank>:



What the hell is going on???

The "Movies.ani" file is over 400MB, is there some restriction in standard Workbench 3.1 and do I need a patch that ClassicWB 3.1 has to fix this?

Help!!!

[DDNI]

Did you try creating an assign for Nemac_4_cd: to your nemac drawer?

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by DDNI

Did you try creating an assign for Nemac_4_cd: to your nemac drawer?

Don't need to as the CD-ROM named "NEMAC_4_CD" is mounted in WinUAE and visable

...but yes, I also tried copying the required files off the CD-ROM and then making an assign to "NEMAC_4_CD".

This works fine in ClassicWB 3.1 but not in standard Workbench 3.1 for some reason.

Anyway, will play around tonight again.

[StingRay]

Looks like a bug to me which might be memory related. Maybe there is more/less memory available when starting the game in the ClassicWB environment.

[DamienD]

Thanks Sting; but I don't think it's this.

There's definitely more Chip RAM available in my "standard Workbench 3.1" .HDF as opposed to my "Classic WB 3.1 Lite" .HDF.

[zipper]

That's odd. I just tried to launch it from Workbench on 3.9 Amikit install. Just went to Nemac_4_CD/l and launched there Nemac_4. The game started witout any problems.

[DamienD]

Yup, it's very odd indeed considering it works perfectly on my "Classic WB 3.1 Lite" .HDF but not on a freshly installed "standard Workbench 3.1" .HDF

Anyway, thanks all for the replies and as mentioned, I will play around again tonight and do the following:

... Create a new .HDF.
... Install Workbench 3.1.
... Install Nemac VI - Director's Cut.
... Test again.

[DamienD]

Last night I did this 3 times before creating the thread:

Originally Posted by DamienD

... Create a new .HDF.
... Install Workbench 3.1.
... Install Nemac VI - Director's Cut.
... Test again.

Had some time free at work so did the whole process again; this time all is finally working

...still no idea why it failed last night though.

Anyway, problem solved