robotfindskitten for AmigaOS

[Desmon]

@Tickly

AmigaOS version homepage
robotfindskitten.org

It should run on all Amigas with Kickstart 3.0 and above, and probably crash on amigas with older kickstarts.

Downloaded the archive last night and tried it on both the Amithlon box and the A3000. After adding an icon (Bender, the robot from the BenderIRC archive) to the executable and running it from WB, it brought down Amithlon very quickly. Wouldn't run on the A3000 either. Running it from a shell window got me a message to say it couldn't find nintendo.font.
Any chance of telling me where I might find the font?

[Desmon]

@Tickly

running it from WB, it brought down Amithlon very quickly. Wouldn't run on the A3000 either.

Thats odd... Amiga E adds all the workbench startup stuff automatically, it should never crash! I'll investigate this evening...

I really don't know why it caused the Amithlon machine to crash. The A3000 didn't suffer at all in this regard.

Running it from a shell window got me a message to say it couldn't find nintendo.font.
Any chance of telling me where I might find the font?

Yes. Its in the archive. Either copy it to your fonts dir, or do this:

The first thing I did was unarchive everything again to make sure I hadn't missed the font. I can't check right now as the machine is currently running Linux and I deleted the archive from the 3000, but I will once I get offline.

[Desmon]

@Tickly

Well, I just downloaded the file (i'm at work), and looked in the archive, and the font is 100% definately there.

Yup found everything (Look Craig, LOOK!) and managed to make it run under 3.9 on the 3000, 3.9 under Amithlon and 3.1 on the 2000. All running fromthe shell of course.
I didn't bother trying it on the 4000.
The one thing I can't manage is to make it run from WorkBench on any machine. I even went as far as increasing the stack parameter to 40K.

Any suggestions?

[Desmon]

@Tickly

Hmmm... odd one this. What does snoopdos say when you click the icon?

1  WBL  ChangeDir  Work:Games/RobotFindsKitten    -    -
2  WBL  Load      RobotFindsKitten    -    OK
3  WBL  ChangeDir  SYS:    -    -

Any help?

[Desmon]

The easy solution is to create a text file, called robotfindskitten.run or something, and just put:

robotfindskitten

in it. Then give it a project icon, with the tooltype "IconX". That should do it.

Now why dinna I think of that?
It's a trick I've used several times under similar circumstances.
Worked a treat BTW.
Do you mind if I distribute your little toy (script included) further?