Try out the Asylum Demo #2

guest · Post by **guest** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:54 pm

http://terrymorgan.net/asylum.htm
67MB

I used a free FTP program called Filezilla to upload this, it is supposed to resume broken uploads,
started and stopped about 20 times, so I wouldn't DL this
on dialup until someone with super fast internet DL's it to
see if it's corrupt, if so, I'll have to get my neighbor to upload it.

So if someone could report back if the file's good, then the rest of you all could go ahead.

Unzip (go to http://www.ultimatezip.com if you don't have an unzipper) to C: or D: make sure
'use folder names' is checked in your unzip program) or whatever your
HD letter is, it will make a directory called C:\asylum or D:\asylum. You'll also need
Microsoft's Direct X 9, get it at http://www.microsoft.com/directx, (12?MB) most modern computers
already have this. If you're on dialup like me you'll need a download program like getright, http://www.getright.com,
it will resume broken downloads, which occur when your internet provider hangs up the phone, or the power
goes off, etc. Ultimatezip, DirectX and getright are free.

Click on Asylum.exe to run the game. In game, hit 'I' for inventory then Return and arrow keys to the help screen for the controls.

The liftbelt only works in the island level.

The game takes about a minute to load on an Athlon 2600. You'll be on an island. Your goal is to escape from the island, there are 2 ways to do it. If you go near the trees, you might get stuck, just click 'new game', but usually you can just go Escape/Options/Debug/No Clipping (don't forget to turn clipping back on after you're free) to get unstuck, or 'space bar' to jump sometimes unsticks you. Save and Load game should work. Mostly the game is about running around shooting the bad guys. Both you and they are terrible shots with wimpy weapons. The island level is an evil hack with numerous rendering bugs, but it's the best Reality Factory can do terrain-wise. The level you escape to is made of standard geometry and better looking.

Post by **AndyCR** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:51 pm

on extracting:

Warning: pack.vfs failed the CRC Check

when i try to run it, it simply shows the g3d logo, then crashes to desktop with no message. rf log states:

OpenRFFile: VFS file open attempt failed on type '9', file 'install\camera.ini'

Failed to open camera.ini file

also, for some reason the media, install, etc folders are outside the asylum folder. if i move them in, the menu runs, but when i click new game, i get this:

File C:\RealityFactory\source\CActorManager.cpp - Line 460: Failed to load actor 'Ernie.act'
File C:\RealityFactory\source\CPlayer.cpp - Line 738: Missing Player Actor 'Ernie.act'

cant wait toi try the demo though!

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:49 am

also, for some reason the media, install, etc folders are outside the asylum folder

Sheesh, the zipper program screwed up. Did you try making
a /media/actors directory and put ernie.act in it? Although
if the pack.vfs is hosed, there will be more errors no doubt.

Post by **AndyCR** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:03 am

dont have ernie right handy. tried virgil, renaming him to ernie, and it crashed wanting "raintree3.act".

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:19 pm

K, I rezipped it, tested the zip, if you unzip to C:\ with 'use folder names' it goes where it's supposed to, and runs. My neighbor
upped it in 3 hours, see if it works.

http://terrymorgan.net/asylum.zip

The only weirdness I could see is on my HD its 67,494,375
bytes and on my site it's 67,503,211 bytes.

Post by **AndyCR** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:28 pm

CRC error while Extracting: (path)\asylum.exe

Sorry this is happening to you. Maybe you should try a different compression program?

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:53 am

Andy, this time I used clickteam's installer, lopped off 10 MB, so
if you want to give it a try-

http://terrymorgan.net/asylumdemo2.exe

57mb

I'm getting Size: 57,834,205
Size on disk: 57,937,920
Size on Site: 57,524, 224

If this barfs, I'd be happy to snail mail it to you (PM me) and you can
give it a go, the broadband connection is Direct TV satellite,
maybe it blows?

Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:40 am

installer quit with this message:

The file contains invalid data.

Maybe you should try segmenting it into 5 mb chunks?

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:51 pm

http://hosted.filefront.com/hike1

K, Here it is again, asylum.rar this one's only 39MB. When you
click on it, make sure the folder 'asylum' is highlighted in Winrar, then unzip it to C:\ (type in 'C:\) or D:\ or wherever, then it
will make a directory called C:\asylum. I used winrar because it
allowed me to exclude the pack.vfs from compression. The
encryption thing is still shakey, I had to put 3 things outside
the vfs before it stopped complaining.

sriram · Post by **sriram** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:39 am

Nice demo,works for me

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:13 pm

Nice demo,works for me

FINALLY! I had to leave out the static mesh terrain level it
had 48MB of terrain textures. The most amazing thing is I upped to
filefront in 5 hours w/o peoplepc yanking out the cord. The
2nd most amazing is that Quest fixed the encryption, thank you!

http://terrymorgan.net/asylum.htm
where the details are.