blank screen

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Run zork one
2.exit frotz
3.open frotz

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
At this point the screen is blank. The bottom of the screen says restoring 
story "zork 1" but 
nothing happens. I've tried typing restore, restart, quit but nothing happens 
when I do. 
Opening another story works fine, but when I try to open zork I am left with 
the text of the 
previous game I opened.

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.4.1
1.4

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.2.1, 3.0, 3.1.2, etc.)
3.1.3

What device model are you using (iPod Touch 2nd gen, iPhone 3G, etc.)
iPhone 3GS

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jasoncar...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 2:08

• Merged into: #118

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I suspect that your copy of Zork 1 is corrupt on the device.  Did you transfer 
it to the device using the FTP or 
Web method?  There appears to be a timing bug in FTP which can occasionally 
cause file transfers to not transfer 
the file completely and truncate the file.

If you did use FTP, please try retransferirng Zork 1 using the web interface 
and see if it addresses the problem.  
If not, please let me know, and specify which revision of the Zork 1 data file 
you are using if you know it.
Thanks.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 2:15

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It's release 15 in z5 format if that helps. I loaded first by FTP, removed it 
and then uploaded again with 
the web upload both with the same results.

I think the problem might have something to do with the autosave. When I 
removed the autosave.sav file 
the story loaded at the beginning successfully. Once I exited to write this the 
same blank screen 
occurred again. Maybe If there was a way to disable autosave? Right now to play 
where I left off I'll have 
to delete the autosave file via FTP every time I exit. 

Original comment by jasoncar...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 3:22

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That's bizarre -- there was no Release 15 in Z5 format; Release 15 was really 
early, before even Z3 existed.
The only releases I know of that were released in Z5 were release 52 and German 
release 3.

Could you try a different release of the file and see if the problem still 
happens?
If you don't have one, I've attached Release 52 to this issue.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 5:22

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Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 5:23

Attachments:

• zork1-52g.z5

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And If you wouldn't mind attaching your zork1 as well, I can try to debug it.

(I'm assuming it's okay to be trading these files, since we both already have 
at least one version of the game, 
plus Activision released them for free a few yeas ago.)

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 5:25

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Here is my  file. I'll try yours out and see what happens

Original comment by jasoncar...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 7:01

Attachments:

• zork_1.z5

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Even though it has been renamed with a .z5 extension this is actually a Z2 (!) 
data file.
It is not officially supported, and there are probably differences in the 
Z-machine V2 format that aren't handled 
correctly by Frotz.  If I can identify the problem fairly easily, I'll fix it 
for the next version, but there still may be 
other problems in V2 support so I'd recommending using a newer release of Zork 
1.

I believe the file I attached should work better for you.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 7:21

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Works great. Thanks.

Original comment by jasoncar...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 8:00

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Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2010 at 1:58

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