It is easy to de install rex to see.  Just go into rex manager and hit f7 I
think.  That removes the rex manager software.

On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, Mike Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:

> Went digging through the archives for the mailing list, and found this:
>
> Some notes:
> * PLEASE keep your RAM backed up in REX just in case of bugs.  I'm not
> aware of any but there could be one or two or several lurking in there.
> * works with version-3 z-code files only (this covers *most* Infocom games)
> * you will probably need at least 24K RAM installed in your machine
> * save files can only be written to/read from the RAM file system
> * it doesn't support non-ASCII characters yet
> * if a game fails to start, or if saving a game fails, you probably don't
> have enough free RAM
> * As-built it works with REX v4.8, and the packaging program z100pkg.exe is
> a Windows executable.  See build.txt for instructions to build it on
> Windows; modify if your needs are different.
>
> Could the changes in REX from 4.8 to 4.9 be the cause?
>
> > On Dec 3, 2025, at 10:30 AM, Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Dec 3, 2025, at 7:07 AM, Mike Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I downloaded Zork, used z100pkg on it, and it created the bx files.  I
> then loaded it on a 102 with rex# 4.9, but when I try running it it crashes
> with error #1f58.
> >
> > Hi, Mike. I see the same error in virtualt-1.8+ .  At a cursory glance
> it looks like that's an error in "setupimage:" which is described in the
> assembly comments as:
> >
> > ;init code to be called when game
> > ; starting, to set up reading from
> > ; game image - need to call this
> > ; before using zgeta, zputa
> > ;DESTROYS ALL REGS
> >
> > setupimage:
> > ;the block currently selected is
> > ; first (contains interpreter)
> >
> > Now, my 8080 is so rusty as to effectively not exist any more but it
> looks like if we're at 0x1f58 to throw the error it's because cblkp failed.
> Why, I couldn't say in the couple of minutes I had to look. Also I know
> nothing about the REX API and it's definitely digging around in the REX
> filesystem here.
>
>

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