Geo's quest

[DamienD]

Does anybody still have a copy of "GQ2" and "GQ3"; which have now been removed off Aminet?

Yes I know I can get the data from Aladin's generic slaves but the "readme" files are not there...

[Aladin]

You can recover files in the first post

Originally Posted by DamienD

Yes I know I can get the data from Aladin's generic slaves but the "readme" files are not there...

Edit: oups sorry

You just have to wait for the author to submit them. GQ3 only has the first part. The rest should not be long.

[DamienD]

Also, when rescanning all "Geo Quest" games with "VirusZ", there are no viruses found but am told that there are errors in the following files from Aladin's generic slave data:

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Aladin

You can recover files in these archives:

GeoQuest2
GeoQuest3

Edit: oups sorry

Like I said previously, unfortunately you've left the "Readme" files out

[Aladin]

I just replaced the gracplayer2 executable. The other files are the originals of the original archive ...

[DamienD]

The reason why I say that the "Readme" files are missing is this.

If you download your "GeoQuest1-WHDL.lha", there is no "Readme" file.

If you download "GQ", there is a "Readme" file. Plus it has a lot of useful information inside.

[DamienD]

Hmmm, I also have problems running both GQ2 and GQ3 natively.

The games launch, a black screen for a few seconds and then back to Workbench with this:

Checked with SnoopDOS and no errors. Also have all the Fonts copied.

[DamienD]

Anyone know how to solve the above with GQ2 and GQ3?

I've tried on a ClassicWB 3.1 Lite installation and also a standard Workbench 3.1 installation.

Same error on both, and nothing from SnoopDOS

[Predseda]

We can load it to GRAC and try to find the problem, but I think it can be another missing file issue.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Predseda

We can load it to GRAC and try to find the problem, but I think it can be another missing file issue.

Thanks, thing is though that Aladin's generic WHDLoad slaves work.

...and I have all the same files as that's where I got the data from.

There's no sound in them though.

[Predseda]

I will try. Problem is the GRAC itself is buggy as hell

[Aladin]

you can write to the author to request an archive

[pngcan]

Hi Friends, sorry been ill for awhile and away from here. I did get an email from Aminet and they said okay to re-upload GQ2 & GQ3 (part 1) In the mean time to load the games, all the grac files must be in a folder named - GQ2 or GQ3 (separate one for each games data game) on your partition named "Work". If none of your DH: partitions are named Work, you will have to assign it. Unfortunately Edmond really didn't provide a way in Grac to create alternatives to loading your creation. Whatever the name of the path you created it in, is the one that you must load from. So my system was typical with a System and Work partition, and the game development files were in the Work partition in either the GQ2 or GQ3 drawer. Hope this helps. As indicated, haven't been well so GQ3 "Hainey's Comet" is stalled, its about 1/2 done, hope to get better and finish it soon. Cheers

[pngcan]

Here's a couple of screen shots of Gq3 Chapter 2 "Hainey's Comet" in progress

[Aladin]

pretty

/Is there a mod that could rename the topic by removing "happy new year virus 96" now that it's fixed. Thank you

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by pngcan

Hi Friends, sorry been ill for awhile and away from here. I did get an email from Aminet and they said okay to re-upload GQ2 & GQ3 (part 1) In the mean time to load the games, all the grac files must be in a folder named - GQ2 or GQ3 (separate one for each games data game) on your partition named "Work". If none of your DH: partitions are named Work, you will have to assign it. Unfortunately Edmond really didn't provide a way in Grac to create alternatives to loading your creation. Whatever the name of the path you created it in, is the one that you must load from. So my system was typical with a System and Work partition, and the game development files were in the Work partition in either the GQ2 or GQ3 drawer. Hope this helps. As indicated, haven't been well so GQ3 "Hainey's Comet" is stalled, its about 1/2 done, hope to get better and finish it soon. Cheers

Thanks for the "Assign --> Work" tip pngcan

Now "Geo Quest 3" starts and works.

"Geo Quest 2" however; still the same error message:

[Aladin]

@DamienD
while waiting for the new aminet archive of Pngcan. You can take back my archive. I corrected the PATH with GRAC2. (it had been modified in my archive, I don't know why, it was looking for volume whdload).
I put three path GQ2: SYS:GQ2 Work:GQ2

[Predseda]

It is VERY easy to mess paths and texts allocation in GRAC.

By the way:

I put three path QG2: SYS:GQ2 Work:GQ2

QG or GQ?

[Aladin]

lol message corrected

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Aladin

@DamienD
while waiting for the new aminet archive of Pngcan. You can take back my archive. I corrected the PATH with GRAC2. (it had been modified in my archive, I don't know why, it was looking for volume whdload).
I put three path GQ2: SYS:GQ2 Work:GQ2

Not sure I understand; you hacked the game exe to add those paths somewhere or?