Letters

@~Any letters or e-mails received on an adventuring-related topic
@~may be reprinted in here unless marked 'not for publication'.
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@~First two web recommendations from:

Jenny Perry, Hampton, by email

The adventure website for mrbill is
http://userdata.acd.net/mrbill/ Hope you enjoy the site.

CD Access is brilliant for buying the games that never see the
light of day over here.

@~I already knew about CD Access at http://www.cdaccess.com - they
@~do have a very good range of software and fast service. I
@~checked out Mr Bill's Adventure Site - he has reviews, new
@~games, kids' games, a few walkthroughs etc. There's a useful
@~comprehensive list of commercial adventure and RPG software, old
@~and new, with a one or two line precis in some cases. You can
@~also visit a message board.
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@~And one from:

Neal Medley, Felixstowe, by email

Have you tried www.blackstar.co.uk ? I order most of my DVDs and
videos through them because pre-orders have a 20% discount, and,
unlike Amazon, there's no postage to pay. They also do some good
special offers, which are different to the ones you see in the
shops.

@~Their prices certainly seem very good and you can browse every
@~video or DVD released in the UK.
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@~During August, I had an interesting query from:



John Tobin, by email

Since I last accessed WITCHFINDER I have updated my O/S to Win 98
second edition. Now all I can get is message saying RUNTIME ERROR
200 AT 1AB5:0091. Any suggestions?

@~I asked Bev, who was one of the authors of Wicthfinder and she
@~said:

Dorothy wrote an article (Probe, October '99) on the problems of
running AGT games on newer, faster machines, and the gist of it
is:  "...that some machines are exactly 55 times faster than the
one AGT source code was compiled on. This is a divide by zero
error within the run-time engine, and has nothing to do with the
game author. Therefore those of you with fast PCs may encounter a
problem - the solution is to drop the speed of the machine with
one of the many slow-down programs available. "(i.e. SLOWDOS,
MO-SLO; I'm not sure about the spelling of these slow-down
programs, but I know Sue offered one of them as a bonus on one of
the SynTax disks not too long ago.)

Dorothy also mentions that the problem might be solved by
converting AGT games into AGiliTy; but I have my doubts about this
method, as many old AGT games don't/won't "work" when converted -
eg, "Jack of Hartz" converted, but there was something decidedly
wrong in the playing of it under AGiliTy - several commands went
haywire, and the game wouldn't function properly. Hope that solves
the query - I don't think it's got anything to do with the Windows
version installed (98, or 2000 or whatever), it seems more a
problem with processor speed. So I guess the solution is to get
SLODOS? SLOWDOS? or MOSLO; presumably downloadable from the Net.

@~I sent a copy of MoSlo (from Disk 988) to John and asked him if
@~it helped. I haven't heard from him yet. SlowDOS was given with 
@~issue 63. In the hopes that others of you might also find MoSlo 
@~useful, it's on this issue's disk.
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@~Finally, just to prove I'm a twit!


From Bill Jenkins, Cramlington

I have printed out your solution of The Blackstone Chronicles, 
but find the drawings referred to in the text are missing. I wonder 
if they are available, as one of them is for an area in which I’ve 
been stuck for some time.

@~I sent them to Bill, together with a section of a different 
@~solution which explained the three problems referred to in more 
@~detail. They are all also published in this issue.









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