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I've gotten fairly far through the game, but it seems to be crashing at more places. One place is really bad: At the fireplace in the Recreation level, whenever I use the Water Magic on the fireplace, it dumps the game. Every time. I think there must be something valuable in there, perhaps vital to winning the game, but I can't get there!
Other place that it has crashed include in the Mines, when I accidentally hit the Magic button instead of the Talk function.
Also, can ANYBODY access that walkthrough on www.dinkworld.com? It seems that in the other threads everyne is having the same access problem I'm experiencing...

Darn.

Initiation had always been a bit flakey for me in the mines, and it usually crashed while destroying rocks. I also had the fireplace issues, but it seemed to happen randomly.

Hmm, make sure that you destroy the bench before you use the water magic on the fireplace... that might cause an issue.

As for the walkthrough... hrm. I have a copy of it, and I'll send it to Dukie and ask him to put it on The Dink Solutions.

Thanks! The bench was the key. BTW, the crashing in the mines always happened when I was at a door, and hit attack instead of talk.

Walkthroughs... I dunno, I follow the Dink Solutions link on this page, and it looks like the site has been abandoned (or no news) since Dec 2004. Is Dukie still maintaining it?