A personal nightmare gog Patch#

This needs to be applied over the '72.out' file, and only if your vicarage section crashes.Īlthough the patched file will still work with ScummVM, I state here that the patch is ONLY designed so that I created a patch using the IPS patching format as it seems there are clients around for most common OS's Kirben kindly provided me with the details allowing me to create a patch for the file. This is great for users who want to use ScummVM to play the game( who wouldnt :p )īut I thought it might be nice for people who did not wish to use ScummVM and still ran DOS machines or DOSBox. One byte and later that day ScummVM was fitted with a nice workaround for the crash. Who was able to provide details of the original uncorrupted '72.out' file, which impressively differed by only Kirben managed to make contact with Alan Bridgman It became evident that this was lost in time. However after a long search for the fabled HorrorSoft patch

ScummVM was unable to fix the crash in the DOS version of the game since the decompression codeĬould not handle the corrupt file. A couple of months ago PN support made it into the SVN trunkĪnd since then the game is supported fully. Written in assembly and needed re-writing. While the original source code was available parts of it were Lately Kirben from ScummVM began working on support for this game within the AGOSĮngine in ScummVM. Which made it impossible to complete the DOS game due to a nasty crash. However nearly all the DOS releases shipped with a corrupted file namely '72.out' HorrorSoft released the game in England, USA and Germany(in English)

However the DOS version never saw a VGA release and users had to make do with EGA graphics. The Amiga and Atari ST versions were released in VGA 'You may know of Personal Nightmare, a game by HorrorSoft released a while back in 1979. I've found a thread in scummvm and then a blog saying: