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 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
Oh dear. Could you try a couple other games and some other versions of Frotz? Versions 2.43 and 2.32 for DOS are available at the IF Archive at http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/frotz243.zip and http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/frotz/DosFrotz232Std10.zip -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
