ScummVM for IF

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Thanks for mentioning cool-retro-term. It IS a lot of fun. It’s like looking back in time, or into another world. Unfortunately it has locked up my computer hard every time I try to run it which is alarming. (Both times when using the context menu to switch profiles or play with the settings.)

I see there is a newer version (1.2.0) than the one provided by the debian bullseye repository (1.1.1). Not sure yet if I’ll take the time to build it. Is it worth it?

Thanks,
Abe

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I don’t know. I never experienced the lockups you mention, and I don’t know what changed between 1.1.1 and 1.2.0. (I’m using the Debian 1.2.0 package.)

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This is (or used to be?) considered a genuine bug in Curses, but has no bad side effects, and will not display if warnings are turned off in Frotz. See this rec.arts.int-fiction thread from 2008.

In the current Z-machine standards document, there is some discussion of what the sensible response is to @get_child 0. I guess the standards document being undecided is pretty much the textbook definition of “undefined behaviour”.

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Then it seems ScummVM is behaving “as expected,” and is not at fault in this case, LOL. Thank you for sharing that history!

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