Re: Inform problem "Bad optional num"


31 Oct 1995 14:47:43 GMT

Saluton!

Gareth Rees (gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: "Sam Hulick" <shulick@guava.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
: > Ok, this is not cool.. now I can't even play-test my own Inform games
: > with the Amiga 'Infocom' interp!! It says 'Bad optional num' all over
: > the place when I move around, take items, etc. Something in library
: > 5/12 is funky. What is it?
: A routine is being called with more arguments than that routine has
: parameters. The Z-machine specification allows this, and I am told that
: some later Infocom games do this, so it's definitely a bug in ITF.
Does it work with (the Amiga-version of) zip?

Ad Astra!
JuL

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