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That seems about right to me. Applying this to a couple of out-of-bounds memory bugs I can think of off the top of my head: Weird messages displayed by black keys/doors. IIRC this is caused by black's index being zero and the array of color names starting at one. The stuff before and after ColorName...

I like the idea of testcases for ZZT's behavior using known inputs/outputs, especially stuff like hashing in-memory states. Automated testing isn't a panacea, but it would give you a way to measure whether or not the port is accurate. As for where to draw the line for which bugs to support (arbitrar...

So. It's the year 2020, and I'm making a toolkit: toolkit-prototype.png What's in it: Top left: Color combinations for normal/breakable/water Left: Fake walls, line walls Slightly to the right of the middle: the 16-color section. These are all items for which ZZT has a default color, so you need 15+...

Conveyors are known to be buggy, and under certain circumstances (around which I'm fuzzy) they can do things like delete stat objects. Since keyboard input wasn't working at all, your end result must have been a player-colored lion (as opposed to a lion-charred player), because the player is what ac...

Yeah, repairs are in progress. PHP's original MySQL library finally transitioned from deprecated to removed, which means a bunch of site code needs to be updated. I hate the mobile view of newer phpbb Is it a functional or aesthetic issue? If it's the latter, I'm open to installing a theme or two. T...

Regarding ownership: I currently have both the zzt.org domain name and the Dreamhost account. Regarding .org domains: there's a lot of hand wringing right now because nobody knows precisely how much prices will increase. What we can reasonably assume: Prices will go up. This was already a thing: the...

RIP :-(

Quantum is a lazy bum.

It's not mentioned on the Kickstarter page, but it is mentioned on her website: Anna Anthropy wants to interview people who grew up with ZZT.

So email her, and you might end up in a book or something.

"Thing" is a wonderful word! And your posts are wonderfully informative -- thanks for doing the research.

I had no idea that / could be bad for lag.

H1~~ wrote:

Catholicism Faith Instructions wrote:Do not bathe in running water (this will wash out your soul! )

Considering that the Christian church has practiced baptism for a long while now, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your facts aren't exactly straight.

I did not know we still had that word filter.

I closed the browser tab right after posting (before the post loaded), so I only just now found out about it! Perhaps the most amusement I've gotten from it.

What I meant to say was, thanks for the files/preservation effort, H1.

Well, we're still missing Pete the Pirate. Pirate's Peril was already in the archives.

Though I do want to for your work, though, regardless of what's found in there. :)

This download includes two copies of the old Pirates' Peril, and another of the remake.

It looks like we have a problem with our review system, too. Try looking at the reviews for Pirate Perils, and for Pete the Pirate -- it looks like you reviewed both games.

I hate it when history is lost. :(

I will have to take a look at these, to see if there's anything that's missing from our archives.