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- From: fxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu (KIENENBERGER MIKE L)
- Subject: Re: Infocom Player problems
- Message-ID: <20NOV199213274963@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- References: <of1b7B200WBO81BY51@andrew.cmu.edu> <uerics.721975805@mcl>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:27:00 GMT
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- In article <of1b7B200WBO81BY51@andrew.cmu.edu>,
- sh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Samuel Roy Helwig) writes...
- > Has anyone compiled the Infocom Task Force player version avilable
- >from 149.171.16.16? I've tried to compile this player on various
- >platforms including a DECStation 5000 (Ultrix) , 386 running 386BSD, am
- >IBM RT running BSD 4.3 and a Sun 4. All these machine compile fine
- >using bsd mode in the makefile. However, when I try to run the
- >resultant executable, I get a Seg Fault. Anyone have a clue? The only
- >thing that I can get the player to do is display it's list of parameters
- >(a.k.a. run it without any command-line parameters).
-
- In article <uerics.721975805@mcl>,
- uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) responds...
- >Which version of the ITF program are you trying to compile? I'm in the
- >process of doing a major port of the program, and the games play just fine
- >(using v4.01). I no longer have the original source code - mine has all
- >the conditional stuff removed to save disk space (and - heh, heh, heh -
- >compile time). But it runs beautifully.
- >
- >A friend and I are working on building it into a fully windowed system
- >with macros and pull-down menus. It's really cool.
-
- Followups should REALLY be directed to rec.games.int-fiction.
-
- ITF V4.01 had problems. I don't know if a later version is out yet, but
- two bug fixes were posted to the net. 4.01 will run fine on IBMs (I believe),
- but it was never tested on other systems and has fatal bugs. The problem is
- that it tries to do some variable manipulation before doing initialization.
- The major bug fix is to change infocom.c so that the order is
- INIT_IO () ;
- init () ;
- init_script () ;
- instead of whatever it currently is. There's also some other fixes,
- but that's the major one. I can dig up the patches if there's enough interest.
- =============================================================================
- -Mike Kienenberger FXMLK@ALASKA (BITNet)
- Academic Computing FXMLK@acad3.alaska.edu (Internet)
- University of Alaska-Fairbanks
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