Hi,

I wonder if I could have some help with this issue please:

My game (The Zen Garden) was written on version 5.3

A player has recently complained that the game seems to freeze/crash at a point which I suspect it's trying to play a sound file. Is this likely to be a compatibility issue, I wonder? He'll have encountered other sound files without crashing in order to reach that point, so perhaps it's something else...I'm unsure how to advise him. I would be sad to see my game become obselete but I don't have time to keep up with new iterations of Quest if they render it so.

Thanks very much in advance for you help.

I'm not familair with picture/art code if their syntaxes have been changed, but there's been a few changes in the syntax of some other scripts/code lines (from 5.3 to 5.4), as can be seen here:

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/ ... notes.html (scroll down to 'upgrading quest from 5.3 to 5.4' category/section)

so, you just need to convert your old syntaxes of these over to the new syntaxes of these

and you need to change this code line (at the very top of your entire game code):

<asl version="530">

to:

<asl version="550">
~ or (it depends on what version of 'quest.exe' he/she downloaded) ~
<asl version="540">

I thought old games ran on the old engine on the web site.

It's a mysterious situation because it's only one part of the game that seems to present an issue. Elsewhere the code and associated sound files work fine. The offending event doesn't involve any unusual code or a particularly large sound file. Baffled.

Thanks for your replies. For what it's worth, when I download the game (with my old version of Quest) the issue doesn't present itself. When I test the game online, it does.

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