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The game freezes when I try to enter the attic!
There is a bug in MOL, where the game appears to hang when you attempt to enter the attic. This is because you are currently playing on disk 2, where the attic sequence requires disk 1. The bug is that you cannot see the dialog box asking for disk 1 (and have no mouse cursor to click on the "OK" anyway). But the dialog box is there, invisible but expecting input, and the "hanging" is just the game waiting for you to click on the "OK".
There are two ways around this bug. They are as follows:
Method One:
Before you go into the attic, save the game. Go into the attic and exit the game. Start the game again with disk 1 in the drive. Choose your saved game -- the one that leads to the attic. The game will ask for disk 2.
Mark the screen where the "OK" was on the dialog box. I used a little piece of a sticky note and stuck it on the screen. Switch to disk 2 and click OK. Attempt to enter the attic, the screen will go black. Bring up your start menu for Windows. This can be done by either pressing CTRL-ESC or by using the Windows Logo on a Windows 95 Keyboard.
You will now get a mouse cursor. Insert disk 1. Click on the screen where your mark is -- you can still see the mouse cursor as a result of bringing up the Start Menu. Because the (black) "window" where you click is part of MOL, the click also switches you back to MOL. But it also effectively clicks the "OK" on the invisible dialog box. And thus the attic appears.
Method Two:
Before clicking on the door, switch to Disc 1. Once you have switched discs and given the system enough time to recognize the new disc, click on the door. You should then receive a "blue-screen" error message asking you to re-insert Disc 2. Press ESC, and you will be returned to the door, and your cursor will disappear. Press the space bar to continue to the next scene.
