I didn't think I could do this, and if it's an achievment, I wish someone else had "won"

[Tdarcos]

Backstory:

Approximately 4½ years ago, I started writing an Interactive Fiction game, "The Librarian." Well, the pandemic came along, then the lockdowns, then all the other things, and I forgot about it. Well, was going through old files a couple days ago, and rediscovered the game. So, I've continued to work on it, i.e. flesh it out, testing, adding, and so on. In fact, I should be posting a technical question shortly.

Now:

I made some changes,compiled and ran the program through the HugoExecutable and it crashed. I don't mean my game crashed, I mean it crashed the run-time system!

Through the judicious use of PAUSE commands, I discover it's happening as soon as the arrival at the starting room. Now I've had erroneous results or program errors or really subtle problems in trying to see what it does. But I never expected this. I don't think I'm really stressing the interpreter, but, Sometimes, I guess, things don't always turn out the way you expect.

More details later as I track down what is causing this misbehavior.















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[Tdarcos]

I want to note that as I was testing the game, it did work. I made some change and stressed out the run-time system.

[Tdarcos]

Well, it happens when the MAIN routine is run, after the meter daemon is activated, and before input is requested. I might try turning that daemon off - it's not really important to the game, just adds a little realism - and see if it changes anything.

[Tdarcos]

Error message: Fatal Error, expecting value at $013ECC. I'll have to do a little spelunking with my Hugo Decompiler.

Size in bytes 124387
Version = 31
Segment Value / Hex (original/hex)
ID = '<L/3C4C
Serial = '/30342D32332D3234'
StartAddr = 87040 /15400 ( 5440 /1540 )
ObjectAddr = 90160 /16030 ( 5635 /1603 )
PropertyAddr = 94064 /16F70 ( 5879 /16F7 )
EventAddr = 98048 /17F00 ( 6128 /17F0 )
ArraySpace = 98064 /17F10 ( 6129 /17F1)
Dictionary = 101776 /18D90 ( 6361 /18D9)
Special Words= 101648 /18D10 ( 6353 /18D1)
InitAddr = 89216 /15C80
Main = 90112 /16000
Parse = 40080 /9C90
ParseError = 43072 /A840
FindObject = 37152 /9120
EndGame = 0 /0
Speakto = 47520 /B9A0
Perform = 46192 /B470
TextBank = 107760 /1A4F0

Which doesn't really tell me anything.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Do you want to put the source code on Github so people can take a look and try to help?

[Tdarcos]

I think this is now the fourth time I've tried to post a response here, but it keeps getting lost.

Do you want to put the source code on Github so people can take a look and try to help?

Not that I don't want other people to see it, I intend to do exactly that, along with uploading it to the various IF archives. The problem is this: I intend to submit it to some of the IF competitions (to get people to play it, and to see if people find it interesting.) But, some have a restriction the game is ineligible to be submitted if it was published before the competition.

However, I found the problem. Apparently, using a daemon causes the game engine (run-time system) to blow a gasket. As I said, I can solve the problem by putting a routine call in MAIN to do the same thing.

[Jizaboz]

Looking forward to it

[Roody_Yogurt]

I'm rereading all of the posts in this base to see if there are any old problems I want to take another look at. Anyhow, the Roodylib version of Activate (for starting daemons) gives a warning about trying to activate a daemon before the player global has been set, so if that happens in your code, maybe that is the problem.