Thanks SandyBean for the compliment.  The mirror room is Psychotronic's cabin built by him.  But what is it you call "the gold key grid"?

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later I'll reply to your remarks on my last post (BTW, shortly after I wrote that I found the secret to the "unreachable key"..... );
but now for an important issue:

Also interesting for , BTW.

5 miniutes ago I was playing TPI (again), when - just after save 2 - something very strange happened. I went down to where the many doors are that lead to Freddy's room.... when suddenly I realised my Jack wasn't able anymore of collecting keys, shields etc. (even if he had enough "empty spots". Also, while all creatures continued behaving normally, those vanishing grey platforms kept being vsible ALL the time !!  I went up, down sideways into other rooms: everywhere the same thing.... spiders crawlwd, eyeballs bounced, but Jack couzldn't collect anything at all.

When I decided I'd pause the game to report this and maybe try again later, the game crashed, with following message:

Assertion failed, this program will now quit

File name: Sprite.c
Line number:   499 (unknown)
Error code:  None

Vern & everybody else:  ever heard about this phenomenon ??  Very strange indeed, isn't it ?! 
What did cause it ??

brell wrote on 23.09.2007 at 21:24:19:


Yes....but I couldn't make much of it (see above). After the entrance you're immediately blocked by an invisible wall !!

brell wrote on 23.09.2007 at 21:24:19:


Found in the meantime (see above). I apparently had just tried the "bent-down" first; sorry.

Hi Brell et al,

The room I was referrring to where I almost quit is properly called the 'Yellow Key Grid Puzzle'.  I had no trouble following the gold coins, but Jack was left out in the cold trying to follow the silver ones.  After going around in circles and bashing his head against many unyielding stone walls, we finally got to the important lever, and stepping block and were able to carry on.  

I also found there were certain areas that you had options on which way to go, and normally I don't like mansions with too much of this, as I feel I may not be able to get back to do them.  But with TPI, I just used logic and followed the keys to where they belonged and this way I was sure to do everything.  

And yes, AquaMat, I did every room, and it is really neat when you are finished and you bring up the Map, to see the real shape of the Ship.  It's too bad I couldn't make the map smaller to see the whole thing at once on my screen, but it has so many rooms, it is impossible.  

I would be interested in maybe becoming a beta tester, if anyone could tell me what's involved, and if it is ok that I am using an iMac, and not the best with computer programming?

take care all,

SandyBean

aquaMat wrote on 24.09.2007 at 21:21:53:

What stars? Was a practical joke between brell and me! I thought that I had all skills to be Admiral on his ship and said that I was going to show my 5 golden stars on the boards. Small problem. Also brell (and joeb and suztours) got 5 golden stars.