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David Griffith

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Jan 2, 2012, 6:49:30 PM1/2/12
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I'm looking for people who have the following physical machines to test
my new build of DOS Frotz:

IBM PC 5150
IBM XT
Compaq Portable (1, 2, or 3)
A a 386 or earlier with a Soundblaster card.

The test subject will be DOS Frotz 2.42. There are some fairly
significant changes in the core from 2.42 to 2.43, so there will be
another test when DOS Frotz 2.43 is ready. There will then be a final
test for 2.44 which will check Blorb support. I'm particularly
interested in making sure V6 and audio games from Infocom work well. I
also want to know how these machines with their limited memories deal
with V7 and V8 games.

If you're interested, please download DOS Frotz from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/frotz/files/frotz/2.42/.



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David Griffith

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Jan 3, 2012, 4:52:34 AM1/3/12
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In rec.arts.int-fiction David Griffith <davidmy...@acm.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for people who have the following physical machines to test
> my new build of DOS Frotz:

Err, well... DOS Frotz 2.43 seems solid enough that I uploaded the
compiled .exe and the source code to the IF Archive. You can also get
DOS Frotz 2.43 from the Frotz Sourceforge pages at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/frotz/. If you
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