error reading header

Freedom wrote:sadly it got me again
won't open the quest, lost 4 days work, got to trusting it too much again and hadn't backed it up since the 1st

sure would save me a lot of re-work if you can get me a copy back opened ;O)
sent you an addy in PM, it's not passworded

Might have had something to do with the 8 bit color thing since that is the last thing I did and bug I reported

You say these issues only happen after ZC crashes or doesn't exit properly. ..Would it be possible for zc to, in some odd case, be using an incompatable allegro42.dll (1.92 or 2.10 for example) from the SYSTEM32 folder instead of the local directory in this case? I wouldn't think of that normally, but I'm no expert in windows OS dll procedures or anything. I just had a crazy idea and thought to share it. Is this not possible?

What would install the Allegro.dll file into the System32 folder? Also the program would first check its own folder before falling back on a Windows System folder.

I don't really know franpa. I think 1.92 or 2.10 install it there. Freedom was saying that he had problems opening zc or this header problem untill he rebooted his computer. That was the only thing I could think of that might make any sense, though I don't know if it's even possible...so :shrug:

no it wasn't running on another dll
I'm pretty sure it was somehow connected to that 8 bit color bug, it was then that I exited and it wouldn't open again.
I tried it 3 times and then shut the computer off and went to bed.
the next day it opened.
I have since moved up to the 1154 and haven't had any more problems, but I also haven't tried to change any tiles to 8 bit either.

Well the only thing we can do about this I guess is to eliminate all the crash bugs so nothing else goofy like this comes about from them. 😃