SOLVED: Older game with empty dialogue choices

[Kitty Trouble]

I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but i'm streaming all of the ROTN games and I can't fix one game in particular. I figured posting here might get someone to know who wouldn't otherwise browse the subforums over there.

http://realityonthenorm.info/game.php?id=126

I'm running windows 10 64-bit and changing any settings in winsetup causes the game to crash on load.

The problem is that when talking to any character inside Scid's bar, the dialogue choices come up empty and the game freezes. But others have said that it works for them. I've tried this on 2 different laptops. Any suggestions? I can talk to the homeless weirdo but not the characters in Scid's bar.

[Scorpiorus]

It does work here, but it may have something to do with the length of the option strings and their word wrapping on certain systems. It's just a guess, though.

Anyway, try using DOSBOX with the AGS Engine from AGS 2.4b: https://files.fm/u/bszzww66

And a .BAT file with the following line:
acdos.exe reality.exe

See if runs ok performance-wise, if at all.

[Kitty Trouble]

Wonderful. It works!