Integer divide by 0?

[ViralCryption]

What does it mean? I have a k6-2 300, 256 megs of pc-133, and win 98se. I was trying to install an older game Sierra Basball Pro 98 and it when I tried to install I got this error message and the program shut down. I had to reboot to get the setup file to run again, but got same error.

 

[littleprince]

woooo!
i love that error msg!!
hee... almost as annoying as null pointer exceptions

well, i'm in software engineering, normaly that error would mean just that: in the program, they tried to divide an integer by 0
which is impossible mathematicaly....
how to fix it... well...
check the sierra site
they might have a patch or something

 

[crazychicken]

if their program (game) gets to a point in the code where an int (and or double) is 0 when it is not supposed to be, and then it tries to divide, windows has a fit

example:

Please enter a number between 1 and 9:
return = number / 2

if you entered 0, and they didn't have an error checking routine, then it would die lol

any more questions lmk

later
david

 

[javathehut]

dumb programmers! They get paid do much money and dont even realize that you cant divide by 0 in mathematics!

 

[madthumbs]

Good luck, I remember some of those Sierra games that did that, and this was while they were old. I never did find a patch.

 

[ViralCryption]

Sierra doesn't even mention their baseball or footbal games anywhere on the site, so no update. Oh well, I was just going to play on-line, but guess not. Thanks anyways.