Tempest Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Is there a version of the Gateway to Apshai rom that fixes the crashing bug for Dungeon 8 Level 7 and 8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 I'm going to assume no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Hi Tempest, Is it a programming bug or a protection / bad crack issue? The Apshai's were not my thing but in my pile of files I found one marked (good), I can't answer as to what good refers to but I pass it on in hope its useful....? Gateway to Apshai [good].rom 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 I played Gateway a lot - it was lacking in ways but IMO better than the later Temple Trilogy that I never really warmed to. Alternate Reality games and a few others aside, we have a distinct lack of good dungeon crawler/roleplay games on the A8. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) Ry, have you ever tried The Orb of Zarramier, it was written by one of our local Policemen BITD, got published by Futureware....Being that it was not my sort of thing I never played it past a few screens...If you played it, is it any good? Got an odd feeling we may have spoken about it many many moons ago... More edit: Seems to have a bug where it replicates your character when running on a US machine even if its a US version of the game....Happens a few screens in.....And its still not my sort of game Starting to suspect there is no US version, just a badly named disk...My reason, Futureware was a tiny software house ran out of a bed room in Essex, I can't imagine now I think of it that they would have US vendor due to their size and finances.. Edited June 26, 2019 by Mclaneinc up date.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 6 hours ago, Mclaneinc said: Hi Tempest, Is it a programming bug or a protection / bad crack issue? It's an actual bug in the game. The maze generating seed has a bug in it for those two levels which causes it to hang (it never stops trying to generate the level). See here: http://bringerp.free.fr/RE/Gta/utility.php5 BTW don't get this mixed up with the disk based Apshai games (Temple, Upper Reaches, etc.), this is the cartridge based Gateway to Apshai game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Orb downloaded... will give it a shot in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) Thanks for the info, I would doubt that the rom I posted will be any better, I would bet that 'good' means working in the most basic sense rather than it being a true fix for that in game coding error.. Was worth a try...If I ever see something I'll grab it for you...That is unless that mega coder Phaeron wants to have a peek at the code and see if he can patch it... Sometimes he surprises us with things like a faster Star Raiders etc....Most likely he's up to his eyes in work tho Edited June 26, 2019 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 I'm sure it's probably an easy fix. Probably just an array being overrun or a bad seed number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) You could try the disk re-release by Value-U-Line (taken from Farb's torrent). It's code differs slightly from Epyx' ROM. Gateway to Apshai (198x)(Value-U-Line)(US)[!].atx Gateway to Apshai (198x)(Value-U-Line)(US)[!].atr Edited June 26, 2019 by DjayBee 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 Totally missed this post. I'll try these this weekend and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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