Darklands Missing Pic

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3 total messages Started by la... Skipmeister Mon, 19 Jul 1993 15:15

Author: la... Skipmeister
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 15:15

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Darklands v1.07, on 386i-33/Diamond Speedstar 24x/DOS 6 w/memmaker.

One day while walking from town to town, a shrat was being chased by some
sort of hound. So, I thought I might protect it and myself by using wood-
lore. Sure enough, just like the Darklands of old, I get booted from the
game and the message missing XHOUND(S).PIC shows up. Luckily, I had saved
the game only a month or so back, and was able to continue onward.

The next time I encountered the Schrat situation, I decided to attack the
hounds right away, and this worked...

This posting is a warning to those playing version 7.0 to avoid the last 
option on the Schrat screen. It is also a plea for XHOUND.PIC, in case I
inadvertantly bumped it out of darkland/pics directory. 


Stephan Lau
Univ of Chicago Graduate Student
la...@midway.uchicago.edu

Re: Darklands Missing Pic

Author: u91... Mills Allan William ISE
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 03:21

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In article <laus-190...@cstore-wh-mac-6.bsd.uchicago.edu> la...@midway.uchicago.edu (Skipmeister) writes:
>Darklands v1.07, on 386i-33/Diamond Speedstar 24x/DOS 6 w/memmaker.
>
>One day while walking from town to town, a shrat was being chased by some
>sort of hound. So, I thought I might protect it and myself by using wood-
>lore. Sure enough, just like the Darklands of old, I get booted from the
>game and the message missing XHOUND(S).PIC shows up. Luckily, I had saved
>the game only a month or so back, and was able to continue onward.
>
>The next time I encountered the Schrat situation, I decided to attack the
>hounds right away, and this worked...
>
>This posting is a warning to those playing version 7.0 to avoid the last 
>option on the Schrat screen. It is also a plea for XHOUND.PIC, in case I
>inadvertantly bumped it out of darkland/pics directory. 
>
>
>Stephan Lau
>Univ of Chicago Graduate Student
>la...@midway.uchicago.edu

 I sent a similar posting a few months back. Someone wrote to me saying my
upgrade must have been faulty. My advice is this, if the game ever
complains about a missing .PIC file then write down it's name. Reboot your
computer since the game crashing can cause some problems. Now go into your
pics directory and hunt around for a file with a suitably similar name. I'm
not sure if it's necessary but you'd better make sure it starts with X as
well. Now copy the .PIC file you have chosen to the name of the file that
was missing. The game will happily show the new one since the .PIC file
are just a graphics file and contain no game data.

 Allan

Re: Darklands Missing Pic

Author: phil...
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:10

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I checked in the game root directory and found four .pic files including xhound.pic. Just moved them into the PICS directory and good to go!

Philip Walter

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