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 pointed. My PC is a 486DX4 running at 75 MHz, with 24M of RAM and no sound card. The game is loaded all right, I see the introduction text, and I can type in a few commands, but after a dozen commands, the program crashes horribly. I tried a few times, and it doesn't crash on any specific command, just after a few of them (always more than 3, always less than 10). Here is a screenshot of what happens: http://s27.postimg.org/xu9k4nywz/frotz_lost_pig.jpg I hope that helps! cheers, Mateusz On 18/05/2015 11:10, David Griffith wrote: > > 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 > to check it out on real hardware. It was compiled with Turbo C++ 3.0 for > 16-bit DOS. You can get the binary at http://661.org/if/frotz244.zip. > The source code is at https://github.com/DavidGriffith/frotz. Games to > play can be found at http://ifarchive.org/ (or > gopher://gopher.feedle.net/1/if-archive/) > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
