On 5/21/2015 8:00 PM, David Griffith wrote:
What do you mean by saving the game progress? All Z-machine
implemenations allow you to save your progress.
The steps/answers/instructions in the game to get to the point where it
crashes...
Ralf
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On 05/21/2015 10:04 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I guess my next step is to bring one of my older machines home, clean it
up, install FreeDOS, and get to work with Turbo C++'s debugger.
You could also try running it on Linux through valgrind, it's usually
pretty decent when it comes to finding
On Wed, 20 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Good news is that Frotz v2.32 works fine. I played the Lost Pig game
for about 20 minutes and I didn't experienced any crash.
My guess is that you have a fishy memory usage in newer versions of
frotz - following an invalid pointer, or writing to
Hi,
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:04 AM, David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:
My guess is that you have a fishy memory usage in newer versions of
frotz - following an invalid pointer, or writing to non-allocated
memory, or so...
Presumably yes. A
On Thu, 21 May 2015, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 5/21/2015 1:04 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I guess my next step is to bring one of my older machines home, clean
it up, install FreeDOS, and get to work with Turbo C++'s debugger. Can
anyone offer any explanation why a program would run fine in DOSbox
On 21/05/2015 21:43, Ralf Quint wrote: Is there a way to save the game
progress, so someone else could try it
on different hardware?
Hi Ralf,
No need for a save state - the game crashes within a minut or so after
starting playing, so the crash is rather easy to reproduce :)
Mateusz
On 22/05/2015 05:00, David Griffith wrote:
The FROTZ that appears in the crash message is from the
filename of the executable. If I rename
it to FOO.EXE, the crash message will contain FOO.
Yes, that's because the 'system halt' message prints out the MCB when
MCB corruption happens (which
Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource
2015-05-20 21:46 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com:
Yes Software diden´t work!
2015-05-20 21:41 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com:
On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Sorry! too Old hardware.
? Care to explain WHY?
Ralf
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Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2.
2015-05-20 21:48 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com:
On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Yes Software diden´t work!
That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't
be any hardware too
Fuck youself...
2015-05-20 22:01 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com:
On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource
You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I
don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom
On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource
You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I
don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom game
engine...
Ralf
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Shell CMD 4dos its a storry about computers.
2015-05-20 22:10 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com:
Fuck youself...
2015-05-20 22:01 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com:
On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource
You really need to work on
On 5/20/2015 1:08 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2.
Doesn't look like it...
Ralf
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On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Sorry! too Old hardware.
? Care to explain WHY?
Ralf
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On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Yes Software diden´t work!
That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't
be any hardware too old to run a DOS program on...
Ralf
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Yes Software diden´t work!
2015-05-20 21:41 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com:
On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
Sorry! too Old hardware.
? Care to explain WHY?
Ralf
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Sorry! too Old hardware.
2015-05-20 20:38 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr:
Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game:
http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg
Mateusz
On 19/05/2015 23:25, David Griffith wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz
Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game:
http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg
Mateusz
On 19/05/2015 23:25, David Griffith wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hello David,
First of all thanks for still caring about DOS in 2015, and on
Good news is that Frotz v2.32 works fine. I played the Lost Pig game
for about 20 minutes and I didn't experienced any crash.
My guess is that you have a fishy memory usage in newer versions of
frotz - following an invalid pointer, or writing to non-allocated
memory, or so...
good luck :)
Hi,
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote:
Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game:
http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg
At risk of asking the obvious, what major DOS version / vendor is the
OP (David) developing on? Is
I don't know details, but I guess the OP is developing on some emulation
machine, like DOSemu or DOSBox, and it works fine for him there. This
happened to me in the past - emulated environment are apparently more
resilient to bugs than a real machine.
I doubt that using a DJGPP version is a
Hello David,
First of all thanks for still caring about DOS in 2015, and on top of
that, caring about how your app works on real hardware :)
I tested the version of frotz you submitted to us, and I must disappoint
you - it's buggy.
I tested it using the Lost Pig game from the gopher repo you
On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hello David,
First of all thanks for still caring about DOS in 2015, and on top of
that, caring about how your app works on real hardware :)
I tested the version of frotz you submitted to us, and I must disappoint
you - it's buggy.
I tested it
I'm the one who maintains and develops Frotz these days, a program that
emulates the Z-machine[1] for modern computers. I worked to make sure the
old DOS interface code works with the current core code. Release 2.44 is
coming up Really Soon Now and I was wondering if I could get some of you
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