Magic Carpet is giving me crap

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 8:38 pm

I've posted this in several diffirent forums, and only get either useless comments, or no replies whatsoever.
Alright, back to my problem.

When I do basically anything while Playing MC (excluding moving and shooting) it randomly exits the program for no reason. I get no error messages, or anything. It just quits. It only does it when I:
Go to the Spells/Map screen
Switch Spells using the # keys
Or use the 'I' (chat) key

Hep me, or ye shall be struck down by the AblinScroggy of Death.

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 8:54 pm

You actually WANT to play that game? Good lord, I'm not gonna help ya.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 9:06 pm

there's your first useless comment...

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 9:29 pm

John The Ax wrote:You actually WANT to play that game? Good lord, I'm not gonna help ya.

And they call you "helpful"....

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 9:46 pm

there is obviously a couple of files missing

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 10:13 pm

It only does it occasionaly, So I know its not that. (And no, I dont have a pirated version for once!)

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 12:26 pm

Magic Carpet was a revolutionary game that "pushed the envelope". I never found it to be very stable myself but you seem to have more problems than you ought.

What OS and what graphics card?

T.D (Cant login) · Post by **T.D (Cant login)** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:39 pm

I use Win 98, and I have a SiS Graphics card (I think) I've tried it on other comps, and it does the same. Even in Pure DOS, it still does that.

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:48 pm

Then, it obviously is a corrupted file. If it happens on other comps, then that must be it.

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 10:18 am

ThunderDog. Apart from one tiny frustrating reference on one Magic Carpet site ("If your game crashes, get the fix.") I can find nothing, nada, nil out there in the way of patches, fixes or files.

Can I ask something? Since the game only crashes when you press certain keys on the keyboard can you think very carefully about whether any other utility, driver or program is hooking the keyboard?

Try pressing Ctrl>Alt>Del once to bring up the Taskmanager and gently and slowly persuade everything else to close except Explorer and Systray. Then run the game. Does it still crash?

BTW I enjoyed the game myself.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 4:18 pm

Tried that
(Dont work)

Could you just send me a Fix? (If there is one anywhere)

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:03 am

Sorry TD. I can't find anything.

Anyone else?

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 4:21 am

www.bullfrog.co.uk/uk/gohtml.html

Click 'Support' and send an E-mail.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:58 pm

I GOT IT TO WORK!! (Not from the Tech Support, though.

)

I just copied all the files from the CD onto my drive, and Apart from a few minor graphics glitches, and no sound, it works fine!

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Sat Nov 23, 2002 11:49 am

That's great, TD. And you can surely get the sound working with a bit of tweaking.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 04, 2003 10:15 pm

i wish i had that game i only have a demo and even that doesn't work now that i have windows xp standard

$hiza · Post by **$hiza** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:40 pm

Hey, i am having problems with the game myself, my friend says it is unfixable without emulator, but i think he is wrong. My problem is that everything moves at like 50 times the speed it is supposed to, and the audio is gone. As well as random times where i launch it and it turns random colors. Help wuld b VERY nice.

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Magic Carpet is giving me crap

Magic Carpet is giving me crap

MC Hammer it to bits

Sorry.