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Pete

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QT Fun - Games
« on: 2009.10.02, 21:19:22 »
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Posted by Martin Iturbide - Friday, 02 October 2009




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Hi All

Thought I'd give these games a try so downloaded and unzipped the files.

A quick read of README.OS2 later and I seem to have found the problem why neither game works
here:-

  "... can only use one font at the moment,
     C:\PSFONTS\HELV.PFB. Make sure this file exists.If it does not exist a crash will happen."


Oh dear!

I presume the above is the reason why neither game starts at all; the game icon gets the "cross hatched effect" and then reverts to normal.

Shame I do not have a C: drive...

Hopefully the C: drive restriction will disappear in the very near future.

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Pete


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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #1 on: 2009.10.02, 21:38:13 »
diver (Silvan?) already said that the hardcoded path to C:\PSFONTS\ is a current limitation of the Qt4 framework beta.

This implies (but does not state) that this restriction will be removed in the final version.

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #2 on: 2009.10.02, 22:51:37 »
we are not sure if we remove this restriction already with the coming beta3, but in the final version it's gone for sure. we will then also support more fonts.

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #3 on: 2009.10.02, 23:25:53 »

Pete wrote:
(...)Shame I do not have a C: drive...(...)

Why so? What is wrong with having c: partition - even if it's occupied by windoze on ntfs ? Then resolving this issue is just a matter of logistics... I mean adding ntfs.ifs and creating psfonts dir on c: with one file in it. It did the trick for me. And I'm playing  blubbels (very addictive game).

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #4 on: 2009.10.03, 01:40:35 »
Hi osw



Pete wrote:
(...)Shame I do not have a C: drive...(...)

Why so? What is wrong with having c: partition - even if it's occupied by windoze on ntfs ? Then resolving this issue is just a matter of logistics... I mean adding ntfs.ifs and creating psfonts dir on c: with one file in it. It did the trick for me. And I'm playing  blubbels (very addictive game).


Well, I do have a C: drive in fact.

It currently contains a knackered installation of Windows2000.

The reason that installation is knackered is because I used the Windows Update tool to update the installation; now that system does not boot successfully. An email to M$ reveals they will fix the problem for a 1 off fee of about £150. Typical M$... I will not bother repeating what I told them to do.

I have no interest in repairing/replacing the Windows installation.

I certainly would not use ntfs.ifs to access any "Windows data" - unless someone has recently written a new driver that actually works and is prepared to rectify any damage that use of said driver may cause (usually the readme or other doc will offer a Disclaimer).

I'll wait until these apps are "grown up" and capable of finding the current boot drive with the \PSFONTS directory - or not.

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Pete

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #5 on: 2009.10.03, 03:19:11 »
Very interesting pair of games. QT4 looks great. I have no sound for Blubbels, though.
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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #6 on: 2009.10.03, 05:40:39 »
What update did you install? Did you change any BIOS options hence? did you change the drive letters?

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #7 on: 2009.10.03, 10:19:29 »
Very interesting pair of games. QT4 looks great. I have no sound for Blubbels, though.

That is normal :) as the current beta has no sound support.

If such features ever will see the light depends heavily on sponsor units.

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #8 on: 2009.10.06, 21:54:31 »
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I certainly would not use ntfs.ifs to access any "Windows data" - unless someone has recently written a new driver that actually works and is prepared to rectify any damage that use of said driver may cause (usually the readme or other doc will offer a Disclaimer).

I'll wait until these apps are "grown up" and capable of finding the current boot drive with the \PSFONTS directory - or not.
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Or take a HEX-editor, and change C:\PSFONTS\ in QtGui4.dll to something more accurate for your system ...

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Re: QT Fun - Games
« Reply #9 on: 2009.10.18, 11:12:26 »
we will provide new releases of the games, as since Beta3 of Qt4 we have native font support and a hack is not needed anymore. so stay tuned till we release them

see http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4 for more infos.

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Silvan