TADS 2 games can't save/restore

[dfabulich]

A user wrote in to the IFDB support mail reporting an issue with Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure.

https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Funbox.ifarchive.org%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fadventions%2Fadventions.zip%26open%3Duu1.gam

To repro:

GET LAMP
SAVE
RESTORE

The game that you saved won't appear on the list of saves to restore.

[curiousdannii]

Huh. That's very weird.

[curiousdannii]

I can see one issue, which is that when saving it uses the file usage "data", and when restoring it uses "save".

Now to determine why it would be doing that...

This seems to be a common problem - Babel also does the mix up. But terps like Gargoyle aren't affected. I'm going to ask on the forum if anyone has any advice.

https://intfiction.org/t/tads-2-savefiles-being-saved-as-datafiles/62083

[curiousdannii]

Chris Spiegel has identified the issue, which affects almost all TADS 2 interpreters. (It's surprising it doesn't affect some terps!)

https://github.com/tads-intfic/tads-runner/issues/30

[curiousdannii]

Fixed!