Parchment problems with z5 game

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I’m having problems getting a PunyInform z5 game to run on Parchment using the iplayif link. Everything is displayed up to the first prompt, except for the statusline, and it won’t accept any input. I tried it in Chrome and Firefox, on Windows 10.

http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fmicroheaven.com%2FShared%2Flibrary_of_horror.z5

PunyInform doesn’t do any weird tricks with input. It’s just a Z-machine read instruction. It doesn’t do any weird statusline stuff either, but maybe I don’t know what Parchment considers weird.

Zork 1 Solid Gold, another z5 game, works fine. It shows the statusline and accepts input.

Anyone got an idea what could be going on?

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this could be the same problem or related to this: Parchment broken by split screen from scott2zil

I have the same problem with z5 READ from ZIL. You can see it, for example, here - Werner's Quest - Details [press the play-on-line, then start the InvisiClues by typing HELP].

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That’s probably it.

We use @split_window 1; to setup the statusline, and I see no sign that anything after that works.

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I disassembled Zork 1 SG, and it looks ot me like we’re doing exactly the same things to start printing on the statusline:

split_window 1;
set_window 1;
set_cursor 1 1;
set_text_style reverse;

And yet Parchment shows the statusline for Zork 1 but not for my PunyInform game. :thinking:

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Does it work properly in Lectrote?

And yeah, I think it’s trying to read in the upper window. That wasn’t supported in the old IO system.

The code on iplayif.com is super old, I haven’t updated it in a long time sorry. I’ll try to make more progress on it today.

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Another guy just tried the current Parchment from Github, and it worked perfectly.

The PunyInform code definitely switches back to window 0 before asking for input.

As long as it works in the current version, I’m happy. An update of iplayif would if course be most welcome.

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I’ve been having some trouble using the Infodoc invisiclues through iplayif.com. Maybe it’s related to this topic?

For example:
http://iplayif.com/?story=http://infodoc.plover.net/hints/wishbrin.z5

It works fine for a while, but then the interface slows down and it becomes unusable.