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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

5069.0. "Larn 12.3: anyone have it running?" by AIDEV::LANDINGHAM (Guy M., LMO2-1/D10, 296-5365) Mon Sep 23 1991 22:41

I recently pulled the Larn 12.3 executable from the Amiga binaries conference. 
Had no problems building and unpacking the archive, but I can't get Larn to run.
I get a small window with a message "Can't open window" and then a visit from
the old wise man on the mountaintop.

Has anyone gotten this to run?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
5069.1		BOMBE::MOORE	Amiga: Where 'multimedia' REALLY began	`Tue Sep 24 1991 04:16`	2
	Yes, I successfully ran it on my 3000. Did you follow the installation instructions?
5069.2	could be running out of stack	CX3PST::WSC160::D_WHITE	I'm patient if it doens't take very long	`Wed Sep 25 1991 13:16`	6
	I haven't tried the new version, but as I recall, the old version was very stack intensive. I created a little script to increase the stack and do all of the initialization stuff. In my opinion, this made the game run much better than when executed by double-clicking on the icon. Dave
5069.3	I think I'm giving it plenty of stack	AIDEV::LANDINGHAM	Guy M., LMO2-1/D10, 296-5365	`Thu Sep 26 1991 11:13`	19
	> -< could be running out of stack >- > > I haven't tried the new version, but as I recall, the old version was > very stack intensive. I created a little script to increase the stack > and do all of the initialization stuff. In my opinion, this made the > game run much better than when executed by double-clicking on the icon. > > Dave Yea, that's what I suspected, especially when I looked at Larn's .info file and it specified a stack size of 100000. But it crashes when run from the icon also, briefly displaying the same error msg: "Can't open window". Over the years I've gone through a plethora of different console devices, perhaps I need a particular one mounted (or I can't have one mounted that I have now)? I tried taking a fresh Workbench 1.3 disk, copying it, stripping it down, and putting Larn on there. Still crashes with the same msg. I'm perplexed...