Re: New release of "A Change in the Weather"


15 Nov 1995 10:21:02 GMT

erkyrath+@CMU.EDU (Andrew C. Plotkin) wrote:

> If you never had a problem with it, you don't really need to get the
> new version. On the other hand, future versions of ZIP may not support
> the undocumented behavior I was relying on. (I was calling @read_char
> with a timeout of 0, instead of leaving out the timeout entirely.)

Woah, so _that's_ why I was never able to use one of Infocom's own
version 5 Macintosh interpreters to run curses.z5? (Well, one of them,
at least -- I may have goofed up on my own, after all.)

Sounds like I'll have to make some modifications to what little I've
written in Inform myself ... That's what I get for looking at others'
examples instead of reading the specification, I guess. :-)

If this behaviour of @read_char is removed, I guess all Inform games
using menus will have to be recompiled, as the DoMenu() function in
Parser.h uses `@read_char 1 0 0 pkey;' on two occasions.

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Torbjorn Andersson