Problem with Lucasarts adventures!

[pomi]

Hi everyone!

I have an odd problem with mouse buttons not working in Monkey Island 1&2 and Indy FOA! I can use mouse to move the cursor around the screen but nothing else. In Monkey 2 and Indy Enter key works like a mouse button so I can actually play them but Monkey 1 doesn't support that so its unplayable...

And this is on real Amiga 500 (KS1.3, 512kb+ram expansion, SupraDrive 500XP and SupraTurbo 28) and all of them are installed on the HDD (same thing happens if I try to play from floppies). No other game has these problems so it can't be fault in the mouse itself.

I hope someone can help me. I'd like to play Monkey 1 and would be nice to play the other two without needing to press enter all the time.

[pomi]

I tried that in Monkey 1 and it actually worked but... I could only do two things (as in use mouse button twice to make an action) and then it stops working. For example after the intro when Guybrush is at the docks: I could move him twice at any direction or read the poster and move but thats it. I tried loading some old saves from a savedisk but it was same in those too.

Thanks anyway.

[pomi]

And how am I supposed to work out the recipe for grog on the ship?

:roflmao:

Strange problem. What kind of mouse is it? It's not a PC mouse connected with some sort of converter like a Cocolino or somesuch?

Nope, no PC mouse. I have two original "tank" mouses and one Manhattan named mouse. And no matter which one I use the problem persists.

I have this EXACT same problem on my CDTV. It's the official Monkey Island game (no pirate copy or anything) booted from an attached floppy drive. I have even gone as far as disassembling the game during run time by freezing it with an Action Replay cartridge on my A500 (where the game did not have any problems, btw). It seems to be programmed in a system friendly manner, doing Intuition calls etc.

But alas, I have never been able to pin point where it went wrong and more or less lost interest and now I don't really have the time anymore. A shame really, because I'd love to burn this game on a CD-R and play it on my CDTV.

Have you tried removing your HDD and/or accelerator card to see if that solves the problem. It worked fine on my A500.

Here's some of it on my blog:

http://www.easygalaxy.net/cfamiga/2009/01/captains-log-star-date-2009011-1.html
http://www.easygalaxy.net/cfamiga/2009/01/captains-log-star-date-2009011-2.html
http://www.easygalaxy.net/cfamiga/2009/01/captains-log-star-date-2009012.html

Wish I had the time to dig my teeth into this again.. If anyone manages to find an explanation for why this is not working it would solve a long standing mystery for me.

I've already tried without HDD and accelerator and removing them didn't change anything. And by the way mine is also original so its not problem with pirated copy or crack.

Its just so strange that this happens solely with the Lucasarts adventures!  Why them!