Re: Interpreter for Tandy 1000 TL


14 Aug 95 10:40:12 BST

In article <40b9p5$2fc@hubcap.clemson.edu>, crodeff@eng.clemson.edu (clark rodeffer) writes:
> I have a Tandy 1000 TL (basically an 8MHz 80286 based PC compatible)
> running Tandy MS-DOS version 3.3, and I would like to find an Infocom
> interpreter which will work with it. I've tried one of the "hacked"
> Zip releases (2.03 I think). But instead of displaying an entire
> screen full of text at once, it flashed one line of text, then over-
> wrote it with a [more] message. This happened both with and without
> the -t command switch used to "set the Tandy bit." Is this a bug in
> the Zip interpreter (or at least this version), or could it be a
> hardware or system problem with the Tandy 1000 TL?
>
I can't help with this, I'm afraid, but just to say: the "Tandy bit"
should not be anything to do with it. This was a flag used in the very
early Infocom games to censor out certain words ("necrophilia") which
were too much for the sensibilities of the Tandy corporation; and to
make Zork I pretend not to have sequels (which Tandy didn't sell).

Have you set the screen height correctly in the code? It sounds as
if your interpreter must almost be working.

Graham Nelson