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    From Operations@VERT to All on Sun Feb 21 19:13:54 2016
    Does anyone have World of Tears running on their board. I have had very
    little problems with most doors, but this one is giving me headaches. I know
    I had it running on the board back in the day. But now, as it loads I cannot go further than the first screen. The lightning flashes very very quickly
    and nothing else happens.

    I'm thinking it might be a fossil driver issue?

    Thanks

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  • From Doctor Who@VERT to Operations on Tue Feb 23 11:55:25 2016
    Re: World of Tears
    By: Operations to All on Sun Feb 21 2016 07:13 pm

    Does anyone have World of Tears running on their board. I have had very little problems with most doors, but this one is giving me headaches. I know
    I had it running on the board back in the day. But now, as it loads I cannot go further than the first screen. The lightning flashes very very quickly
    and nothing else happens.

    I'm thinking it might be a fossil driver issue?

    Thanks

    I tried setting it up too in order to see if I had any issues. I'm using DOSEmu under Linux. The first issue I noticed is that it doesn't even bother to clear the screen first. So artifacts of the door menu remain until they are overwritten by the lightning. Pressing the ENTER key continues to the next screen for me. But there were isues like it continuing to ask me for my character's name every time I enter it until I gave up and entered "!" to quit which continued the game. Then after the opening scene where it asks if you want to spare someone's like (it never says who), it immediately exits the game. Then when I reenter the game, it starts over again.

    Off the top of my head, maybe we could try checking the Synchronet options for capturing console output. Or maybe increase the amount of EMS memory allocated to the game? The docs say 4 MB RAM is recommended. I don't know how to specifiy the amount of RAM to DOSEmu, though.

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  • From Mro@VERT to Operations on Tue Feb 23 20:21:20 2016
    Re: World of Tears
    By: Operations to All on Sun Feb 21 2016 07:13 pm

    Does anyone have World of Tears running on their board. I have had very little problems with most doors, but this one is giving me headaches. I know I had it running on the board back in the day. But now, as it loads I cannot go further than the first screen. The lightning flashes very very quickly and nothing else happens.



    i think it has some issues because i do not run it on my bbs now and i used to have it installed. for me to remove it would mean there's a problem
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