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Balron crash - again

Author: Stephen (---.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com) Date:   12-20-07 11:20 I'm on a Mac OS X. I've tried the daily build and the 1.0beta3 build and the same thing happens. When I encounter a balron (specifically in bucaneers den), the program crashes. I've also tried various video/sound configurations with no luck. I saw similar posts but nothing seems to work for me. Any ideas? Thanks!!!

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: solus (76.89.227.---) Date:   12-21-07 00:29 I have not been able to reproduce the crash. Does it also happen when you are attacked by a Sea Serpent in town? Does it happen when *you* attack the creature, when it attacks you, or both? While testing, I noticed that when creatures such as the Sea Serpents and Balron in Buccaneer's Den attacked, it displayed "Attacked by (unnamed person)" rather than the name of the creature. An update was just checked into CVS that will now display the appropriate creature name. Regarding the Mac OS X snapshot, it does not appear to have been compiled since June 2007. It's possible that a fix was checked into CVS since then. I'm not sure who is responsible for building the Mac OS X snapshot, but hopefully a new version will be posted soon. In the meantime, if anyone is able to compile and run the CVS Mac OS X build, please test out the creatures in Buccaneer's Den. ----- Michael Ryan :: something STRANGE

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Stephen (---.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com) Date:   12-21-07 20:21 Thanks for looking into this. I should add further, it doesn't crash when attack beings, it goes to the battle scene fine. We are allowed to being the battle. It is when the Balron tries to do something (I don't know what since it crashes) that it dies. Presumably its trying to cast a spell. Likewise, I've found in any battle standing next to a rock and attacking it causes a crash. Both of these bugs I've seen reported before, so probably a new build of the mac client will fix them all.

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: solus (76.89.227.---) Date:   12-21-07 22:31 Ah yes. That bug was fixed a little while ago, and no longer happens on the CVS build and latest Windows snapshot. I expect it will be fixed in the next Mac OS X snapshot as well. I am hoping to get my hands on a Mac soon, although that would likely be a Mac Mini with an Intel processor. ----- Michael Ryan :: something STRANGE

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Stephen (---.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com) Date:   12-22-07 09:28 I built the latest CVS build on my macbook (x86) and it did fix the rock problem and the balron problem. It still crashes though when I'm wondering around bucaneers den at seemingly random times. I get this error on the console: 2007-12-22 11:23:46.476 u4[90656:10b] *** -[NSLayoutManager glyphRangeForTextContainer:]: given container does not appear in the list of containers for this NSLayoutManager. I haven't been able to figure out what the common denominator is for this crash is...but I can't make it to the magic shop and out of town without a crash.

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: solus (76.89.227.---) Date:   12-22-07 23:21 What version of SDL are you using? I came across a bug database for another application, which contains a bug with the same error message. A bug comment pointed to one revision of 1.3 in particular. Does that help? I appear to be using SDL 1.2.11. ----- Michael Ryan :: something STRANGE

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Steven-J-S (---.maccs.mq.edu.au) Date:   12-23-07 17:19 I tried to do a new Mac OS X snapshot recently, but this bug in SDL is currently holding me up. It causes xu4 to crash after only a short period of play, no matter what you do. There's nothing we can do about it unfortunately. I've been meaning to try to get an older version of SDL without this bug to do the snapshot with that. Hopefully a new version of SDL will be out soon.

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Todd (---.kc.res.rr.com) Date:   02-14-08 09:53 The Balron crash seems to be linked to its use of the sleep spell-- in any case glad to hear it's fixed. Is anyone still working to get a new Mac OS X build out anytime soon? If anyone has successfully built it-- even w/the continuing crashes in bucanneer's den-- I'd love to get a copy of it-- right now it's unplayable with the balron crashes... thanks! Todd

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Dean (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) Date:   02-24-08 16:12 Hello, I just want to say how happy I was to see other Ultima fans out there, the last time I played was on my Apple IIc back in the 80's. Anyway, I'm encountering the problem with the Balron at the Buccaneers Den. Now I'm not exactly a wiz on the comp so go easy on me. I'm running on windows xp and i just don't know how to pursue the fix. Please give me an idea how to fix this problem...Please Please! Thanks, Dean

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Todd (---.kc.res.rr.com) Date:   03-01-08 11:39 Just wanted to followup with a note that the most recent build fixed the balron/sleep problems and I have yet to encounter any problems in buccaneer's den. I can fight the balron there w/no problem. Todd

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Geoff (---.eugn.qwest.net) Date:   03-19-08 22:16 Okay, so there's all this great talk of the daily builds, but the latest build that I can find a link to is almost nine months old. Any chance a new OS X build will be available at some point? I'm running the beta3 right now, and I seem to crash every time I accidentally attack in the wrong direction and I'm standing next to a rock or the mast when I'm aboard a ship. All in all, though, well done! I've missed the Ultimas, and it's great to get back into them. Ultima V is what I'd really love to get next... I'll look forward to anything you put out, though. Keep up the great work!

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Steven-J-S (---.maccs.mq.edu.au) Date:   04-03-08 00:42 There's a new OS X build up now. You can get it from the Download page.

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Jason (---.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) Date:   04-30-08 17:22 I have been having the same problem with the Balron crash. I don't understand where to get a patch to fix it or even how to apply a patch. Can someone help?

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Adam (---.kansaigaidai.ac.jp) Date:   05-11-08 18:34 On OSX I'm having the same problem with the 1.0beta3 snapshot. Balron's sometimes crash, but sometimes don't (I was able to kill the one in Buccaneer's Bay) so I assume it's linked to some spell cast.

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Re: Balron crash - again

Author: Steven-J-S (---.maccs.mq.edu.au) Date:   05-15-08 23:39 Don't use 1.0beta3, it's very very *very* old. If I could edit the relevant file, I'd remove it from the donwload page altogether. Scroll down to the "xu4 Daily Snapshot Builds" section of the download page and get that version instead.

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