Book of spells

[jane]

Have downloaded the latest complete 3 versions of book of spells - and got to third chapter and it keeps crashing - error notice says -

Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000094 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0042182A ; program pointer is +6, ACI version 2.56.627, gtags (2,0)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal.
(Room 2 script line 9)

Helpppppppppp!

[Pumaman]

Hmm, it looks like a crash trying to display an empty line of text - Spyros, are you around? What is room 2 script line 9?

[Spyros]

This is line 9:
DisplaySpeech (NONE, "After a long time...");

where none is an invisble char (something like a narrator)

Bos 3 is available for 2 years and no one has ever reported a bug like this  

[Pumaman]

Are there any translations available for BoS3?
jane, were you using one?

[jane]

Not really sure what you mean as a bit of a novice - just found out that my son donloaded The book of Spells Complete from GAG - and it says it is available for beta testing!

[Pumaman]

Spyros: is the new combined version using RunAGSGame to combine the parts? If so, it's possible this is a bug with that somehow which I can look into.

jane: for now, you might be better off downloading chapter 3 seperately, I imagine it is also available on the site.

Sorry for the hassle, hopefully we can track this down.

[Spyros]

Yes it uses RunAGSgame but.
All parts until the 3rd work fine.
The error doesn't occur when part 3 starts but after you have entered the 2nd room.
There are also 2 more people that reported the same bug but I can't duplicate it in my pc.

[Pumaman]

Is there any DisplaySpeech in the game before this point, or is this the first time it is called in part 3?

[Spyros]

It's the first time.
The first room is a cutscene with no displaySpeech

[Pumaman]

could you try this:

http://www.agsforums.com/acwin.zip

Unzip it into the game folder, and rename the game EXE file to "ac2game.dat". See if that helps at all.