Bronze Game: screen froze after typing "move stool to north wall" in the corridor where the inscription is

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I don't know. I can't figure out how to unfreeze the screen
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What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
a response should come up either saying stool was moved or that action didn't 
produce any results

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.5.3 for iOS

What device model are you using (iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 3rd gen,
etc.)
iPhone 4 GS

What version of iOS?  3.2, 4.0, 4.3, etc.)
4.3
iOS 5.1

Please provide any additional information below.
The program was working fine until I tried to move the stool in the narrow 
corridor. Then the screen froze and I can't find the curser anywhere. What 
should I do? 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by huntersb...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2012 at 8:41

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This is an awesome game--I am new to text games, and it's well written and well 
done. I hope this problem can be resolved. I have only two more rooms to find.

Original comment by huntersb...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2012 at 8:42

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Similar game freezes have been reported and I believe the problem has something 
to do with timing, but I have not narrowed down a fix yet.

You should be able to recover by killing Frotz (by double tapping the home 
button, then pressing and holding the Frotz icon until an X appears, then 
tapping the X), and relaunching.  Or by just rebooting your phone.

Frotz should load the last auto-save on launch.   You will lose the last few 
moves of progress, but hopefully not much.  Since I think this problem is 
caused by a rare timing glitch, I expect it will not happen again from the same 
command.  If it DOES, then that's actually kind of good news, because it will 
help me narrow down the problem and find the bug.  Let me know if this does 
happen again repeatably, and if so, I'd like you to please manually save your 
game and attach the file to this bug report.

Thanks

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2012 at 9:04

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Hello, whoever answered my e-mail.

The rebooting of my phone worked, the curser showed up, and I lost nothing. 
Thank you!

Have a blessed day!
Laura Griggs

Original comment by huntersb...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2012 at 1:14

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Awesome, and I'm glad you're enjoying Frotz.

Since I already have other reports of the freeze issue, I'll go ahead and close 
this one out.

Cheers,
Craig

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2012 at 1:35

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So, Craig, 

Your prompt reply is MUCH appreciated. And, yes, I am totally enjoying the text 
game -- I raised 6 children (am nearly 57) and watched them all play the text 
games like Zork, Return to Zork (which I actually did play) -- but mostly had 
to attend to household duties, etc. Now they are all gone, and I actually have 
time to get hooked. I started with 9:05 and played it about 5 times to "do" the 
various ending scenarios. What a hoot!

Bronze has been a fabulous way for me to break into the world a little further, 
and I appreciate being able to play with the help bold-face prompts so I don't 
get overwhelmed -- Also, it has a beginning and, hopefully, an end -- but I 
still have two rooms to explore! 

Looking forward to some of the others on Frotz games, too.

Have a blessed day!
Laura Griggs

Original comment by huntersb...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2012 at 3:14

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Hi, Assuming this might go to Craig:

I finally finished Bronze a few minutes ago, and what a fun twist! I did not 
save my game before typing in the last command.  Is there more than one ending? 
 If so, I don't mind playing it again, now that I know how to do it.  9:05 had 
several endings, but it was a short game, and I found them all the first 
go-around. THAT was a perfect game for a beginner like me.

It took a while to figure out some things to do.  Thanks for providing this 
game Bronze as part of FROTZ.  

Thanks again for your help earlier when I ran into a snag.

Laura Griggs
huntersbirddog@gmail.com

On Mar 27, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Laura Griggs wrote:

Original comment by huntersb...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2012 at 10:53