Runtime Error 200 in AGT Games

                          From Sue

I gave Bev's 'Still Laughing at my Cardigan' away with the last
issue of SynTax but after a few weeks I had a message from Jan
Charnley to say she couldn't get it to work. She got 'runtime
error 200'. That sounded familiar to me, but I knew I hadn't had
problems running 'Cardi' on either my Me machine or the XP one
though I had seen it in the past with other games.  Jan had
Windows 98 second edition ... so did my Mum and it ran fine on
Mum's PC too.

Sometimes I hate computers!

Time to go to my favorrite Internet site ... after the SynTax one,
of course ... Google groups.

I got quite a bit of information from various messages that had
been posted and this is what I learned.

There were various suggestions.

Try one of the 'slow down' programs like Mo-Slo (given with Issue 
68)

Tppatch - this is a program written by Andreas Bauer which fixes
Runtime Error 200 in AGT and other Turbo Pascal programs on fast
machine. You just put it into the relevant directory and run it on
compile.exe and run.exe. Or in this case probably runb.exe

Windows AGT - evidently this will run ALL AGT games. I tried it.
It crashed.

AGiliTy (The (mostly) Universal AGT Interpreter) - see another
file in this issue about AGiliTy. You can convert an AGT game into
one that will run with Agility and evidently avoid the runtime
message. This seemed more hopeful. I downloaded the latest DOS and
Windows versions and found the conversion program, AGT2AGX.EXE.
Using the syntax:
AGT2EXE CARDI
produced a file CARDI.AGX which I could then run using either
AgiliTy version. It worked fine for me, but what about Jan?

As it happened we didn't have to go that far. AGiliTy will also
run AGT games directly from their DAT files and when Jan tried
that it worked.

So the conclusion, if you're having problems running AGT games,
try AGiliTy with the normal compiled files. Or use it anyway - I
liked it!

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For anyone else having problems, all these files are on the SynTax
website at www.syntax2000.co.uk.



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