Hi all, looking forward to doing some Multiplayer lemmings with you guys, but notice I cannot play the game right away. Looking through the forum I see a guy named Giga saying something about 'not seeing sprites'
I think he should have went into more detail to explain his problem as this is probably what I am seeing also.
:- The game does open, I get the screen asking for my name, then the menu for single / multi etc
Though next screen is the options to select a level. Network/orig/test are unclickable buttons, so I cannot select anything to play. The only buttons you can click on this screen is the Edit button and the back button.
So , tried extracting again, same issues.
Tried on another computer. Works great.
Issue appears to be unplayable on Win Vista
Other computer = WIN XP
Thanks.
Well, I've tried it on a Vista computer, extracting the contents of the zip file from
http://ewigeliste.ew.funpic.de/lpp/download.php to c:\lpp. It's working fine for me, I don't even need to elevate. I've also tried to see what happens if I remove the subfolders under levels, or changing their access permissions (ie. deny write access or list directory access, etc.), and so forth. None of them replicate a situation where the buttons show up but do not respond to clicking. Either the buttons aren't there at all (eg. when I remove the folders, or deny "list directory" access to the levels folder), or clicking on them leads to an empty listing consistent with the restricted permissions.
I've even tried full-screen vs. windowed and encountered no differences.
I could try other things but at this point, I think you'll need Simon to add some additional debugging output in his code to get a better idea of where/how it's failing specifically on RubiX's Vista computer. It may very well have nothing to do with Vista per se (though it's always a good idea to be suspicious of it
).
Actually, one more idea: one thing that's worth checking on the bad computer is to see if you have a copy of alleg42.dll (or maybe just alleg<something>.dll) in c:\windows\system32 folder or the like. The problem being that the copy in the windows system folders may be overriding the one in the lpp folder (well I'm not 100% sure to be honest, it may depend on exactly how the game loads the DLL), and if it's an older (or possibly newer, if they did a poor job keeping Allegro backward compatible with older versions) version it could cause things to not work in the game.
If you found no such file in the windows system folder, then it's probably something else. If you do find one, don't delete it though since you may have some other programs that need it. We can figure out what to do if that's in fact what's happening on that computer.