Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!dawg6844 From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Problems with VETTE! Keywords: Install? Frustration. %^*&$#@!!! Message-ID: <1991Mar20.181617.29587@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 18:16:17 GMT References: <1991Mar20.074647.15048@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 35 darkstar@wam.umd.edu (Martin Walser) writes: > I purchased VETTE! a couple days ago for my vanilla Mac II. >After installing Color VETTE! (self-expanding archive), I tried to >run the game. The opening screen/animation loads fine in nice 16 colors. >Then, when the game tries to go to the "garage" screen, I get this dialogue: >Error! >ID=2 GetPict error. PICT not found. >Or something to that effect and the program quits. I took the software back >to Egghead and reported the problem. After pulling another copy off the shelf, >we checked to see if the new copy would run on their machine. It did, so the >dealer allowed me to copy the files from the off the shelf copy onto my disks >figuring I just happened to get a bad disk or something. I took it home again, >reinstalled, and got the same message. It worked on THEIR machine... how come >not MINE? I am going to go back tomorrow to try again. >I have 2megs of memory and only a few inits running, which I turned off to see >if they may have affected the install. No dice. Just out of curiosity, I opened >the copy installed on my hard disk with ResEdit and notice a number of blank >PICT IDs... 134 thru 140 were empty as well as a few others with higher ID #s. >For some reason, it's not installing all the resources right on my machine. >(at least the PICTs). Anoyone else experiencing similar problems? >Mart 1) Are you running the proper System version? (I think they said 6.0.5) 2) Do you have 32-bit QuickDraw installed? -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Dan Walkowski | To understand recursion, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | you must first understand recursion. walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu |