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 :) Mateusz On 20/05/2015 20:38, Mateusz Viste wrote: > 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 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 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
