DIRECTOR: Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual crash with a Lingo error.

[jamie-marchant]

Star Trek The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual crashes with a Lingo error.

Terminal output:
WARNING: SearchSet::add: archive '/home/owner/scummvmGames/MMD' already present!
Starting v400 Director game
WARNING: Could not find classicmacfonts.dat. Falling back to built-in fonts!
WARNING: Lingo Inited!
WARNING: No LINGO.INI!
WARNING: PJ93 projector flags: 00000000!
WARNING: RIFX: type: APPL!
WARNING: mmap: version: 0!
WARNING: RIFX: type: MV93!
WARNING: mmap: version: 0!
WARNING: Movie is from later version v404!
Switching to Director v404
Reloading builtins
STUB: Unhandled 'Sord' resource
WARNING: STUB: Score::loadFrames. frame1Offset: 14 numFrames: 0 version: 4 spriteRecordSize: 14 numChannels: 32 numChannelsDisplayed: 30!
0300000W.TXT,1,0,0"t:
-- "here's gResumeList:0300000W.TXT"
-- "here's gSoundSetting:1"
-- "here's gRunFromCD:0"
-- "here's gLowMemFlag:0"
WARNING: b_alert(Your NCC1701D.INI is missing or damaged. It needs to be in the same folder as your NCC1701D.EXE file. You may need to re-install this program in order to execute it from your hard drive. Please see the READ ME file on this CD.)!
WARNING: dropping return value!
WARNING: varFetch: variable mReadFile not found!
WARNING: BUILDBOT: Uncaught Lingo error: Call to undefined handler 'tempObj'. Dropping 1 stack items!

This is on a daily build from 06/17/2022.

[jamie-marchant]

Anyone know do I need to put stuff in a different place then it is on the CD?

[jamie-marchant]

This is still happening in a 08/21/2022 build.

[rvanlaar]

Improvements have been made on this game.
This specific error has been fixed with: ​https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/47474b340706dabfd1a18bddb31e9cea6f392e8c

The game will now start, but expect weird visual bugs.

[jamie-marchant]

I can confirm the game does now start. Did you file a new bug report for the graphical issues?

(Really excited about this, one, it's hard to get the game to run on anything newer then Windows 3.1)

[rvanlaar]

Nice to hear the about the excitement.

Regarding the bugs. I don't file them myself when I'm working on supporting game.*
Don't let that stop you from filing them yourself though.

If you're interested in following the development for Director games more closely, then you're welcome to join our discord server.

*Filing bugs for a game that is this broken would mean significant overhead in managing the tickets. Time that I would rather spend on fixing issues.

[jamie-marchant]

Sorry I am very busy man. This program no longer crashes in the latest daily build. It does need Quicktime VR support to work and that does not seem to be implemented yet.