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DavidKinder / Windows-Glk

Windows implementation of Andrew Plotkin's Glk specification.
MIT License
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Windows Glulxe and Windows Git close after showing the bibliographical information of A·L·I·E·N #10

Closed sukiletxe closed 4 years ago

sukiletxe commented 4 years ago

Hello, I cannot play a Spanish Game called A·L·I·E·N. After opening it and showing the bibliographical information, both Windows Git and Windows Glulxe close without showing any error on screen. I also tried opening the game with the command line but it didn't work properly, and no error was shown in console either. According to a forum post, the game worked in some older glulxe version. Gargoile works fine, but there reviewing text is more difficult.

The game is available here, and here is its source code, if it can help.

I can try to debug what's happening if you provide me with some instructions.

Thanks!

DavidKinder commented 4 years ago

Fixed by commit c31f2b2bbc8039d345b638fbd0532c0df60fb82b

DavidKinder commented 4 years ago

The problem is that the game is calling glk_request_timer_events(0) before any window has opened. This shouldn't do anything, but because no windows are open, it leads to an internal error in Windows Glk. I have committed a fix for this which will be in the next release. The workaround in the meantime would be to not call glk_request_timer_events(0) during start-up before any windows open - all the call would do is stop any timers which aren't running anyway during initialization.