Savegame Problems in Zoom for Mac OS X

Technical Development Interpreters
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Hi,

I’ve switched from Gargoyle back to Zoom since Gargoyle looks really bad on my Retina Display, but now I’m having serious issues with savegames in several games. I couldn’t load savegames made in Counterfeit Monkey, and now the same happened with the latest release of Blue Lacuna. I can’t load my savegame (after a 7 hour session on a train…), not in Zoom, not in Gargoyle, not in Spatterlight. All I get is “restore failed” or “Glk Error No ident chunk in save file” or, if I use glulxe instead of Git, “Glulxe fatal error: Unknown destination type in store operand.”.

My system is 10.8.2, Zoom is Zoom interpreter version 1.1.5
Macintosh interface version 2.1.5
CocoaGlk version 1.0.8
Glulxe version 0.4.7
Git version 1.2.9

I would be very grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction of what might be wrong there, as you can probably imagine, this is quite frustrating.

Thanks!

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There was just a thread on this… https://intfiction.org/t/passing-save-files-between-different-interpreters/4915/1

That deals with loading Zoom save files into Gargoyle, not the other way around. I thought that the other way around worked automatically.

However, Zoom is known to be buggy on OSX 10.8 – maybe 10.7 too – so you might just be out of luck.

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Thanks zarf for pointing me in the direction of the thread, I did not find that one as I entered “savegame” as my search query. I’ll try getting the save file out of the package as mentioned in the thread.

While we’re at it: Which interpreter might work on 10.8 and that ridiculous retina display? I seem to be out of options as Gargoyle doesn’t look right and Zoom seems buggy.

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update: trying to take the save file from the package and opening it in Gargoyle as mentioned in the other thread does not solve my issue, i get “No ident chunk in save file” again.

Do you think it would be wise to send an email to the maintainer of Zoom for OS X?

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Sure.

I can save a game in Advent.ulx in Gargoyle and load it into Zoom. So when this process fails for you, it’s Zoom being generally unhappy about life.

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thanks!

When all else fails, I’ll have to go back to reading books I guess;-)