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August 11th 2022, 05:45 AM
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millimeter
Peasant He/Him Canada
Millimeter is Wee-Lamm, Recording Artist. :-) 
Though this looks like an amazing offering, the only version I can get to load at all is 1.07, and only in a browser.

Firefox 99.0 MS Edge V:104.0.1293.47 (Official build) (64-bit), yield the same results where 1.07 will allow me to wander on the island but attacking any pillbug simply clears that layer from the screen and freezes the instance.

If there is a newer version of HD, I don't know where to get it, when I start up, it suggests there are no updates.
However, your version 1.14 suggests it needs 1.97.

Loading Version 2.00 in Dink HD V1.95 build 1, Script version 1.10 fails before Dink's initial location is set in start1.c as &player_map = 737;
By resaving all images in 8bpp format I seemed to get closer to starting, it does play 'title.mid' from 'onlau_m.c'.

BY commenting out the 2 'wait(0);' lines in start1.c and adding debug commands to point these out, it fails with,
Stopped cd
First wait 0 skipped
Second wait 0 skipped
Forcing surface unloads via DinkOnForeground
Initting Surface after video change
Processing playmidi command. //this is likely title.mid, which is playing when the crash dialog appears.

I don't currently have a linux instance I can use for non-work things but will take any other thoughts you may have on how to get this to run.
mm