Ticklish Situations - first demo finally here

[Phineas]

Dig it.

 

[mrwheels]

help

man your program installed something called content advisor which wasnt there before i downloaded this demo thing how do i remove content advisor

 

[mrwheels]

ignore

ignore my previous post i found content advisor on my computer and disabled it
sorry to accuse of something that was bad

 

[Phineas]

no problem, Mr. W. For anyone else listening out there, though, the TS demo does not contain ANYTHING other than the .class and .gif/.jpg files necessary to run the game. It certainly won't try to install Content Advisor or anything stealthy like that.

enjoy, folks. 😀

 

[softmalefeet_21]

I double-click the file launch.bat, and nothing happens. The DOS prompt comes up real quick, but the vanishes off the screen. I opened the batch file, and all that's inside it is:

"java ticklish"

I'm not a DOS pro, but I know in batch files more is required in order to run a program from one... 😉

 

[Phineas]

I double-click the file launch.bat, and nothing happens.

...do you have Java installed? Ticklish Situations requires a JRE other than the one that comes in your browser.

The DOS prompt comes up real quick, but the vanishes off the screen.

...it's supposed to do that. as you observed...

I opened the batch file, and all that's inside it is:

"java ticklish"

is the only command needed to run the program, if you have the JRE properly set up. The batchfile runs the Java VM launcher with the proper arguments to run the game. I made a batchfile because people keep trying to run the program from their Run box instead of MS-DOS, and it won't work that way.

I'm not a DOS pro, but I know in batch files more is required in order to run a program from one... 😉

not when the program can be launched with a single command. The batchfile's only purpose is to force the game to run from MS-DOS (because it's running an MS-DOS command) in the proper directory (because the batchfile is in the same working directory as the rest of TS, which is the directory you need to launch TS from. Again, most people were having trouble with the "open command prompt and navigate to your install directory" part of the instructions.

All a batchfile is is a list of DOS commands that are run with a double-click. Nothing more.

softmale, please perform the following steps. if they don't fail, then E-mail me about the problem. I *did* test the batchfile prior to uploading it.

1) verify that you have Java installed by opening an MS-DOS prompt and typing "java" <enter>. you should see a list of command parameters, etc. If you get "unknown command" it's not installed, and that explains why the batchfile fails.

2) assuming Java is installed correctly (previous step), navigate to the TS install directory via MS-DOS using the CD command. (eg. "cd \games\ts"). then manually type "java ticklish". if the program runs, then oops, I have a batchfile to fix. if the program *doesn't* run, the batchfile is not the problem.

3) just to be thorough, while in the TS directory, run the batchfile from the MS-DOS prompt by typing its name ("launch.bat") and see what happens.

thanks!