Open DavidGriffith opened 3 years ago
I think I saw this issue manifest itself with the boy who keeps trying to sell stuff to the player. One of the objects he tries to sell had similar style garbage. I thought it was a Douglas Adams joke at first, that the kid was trying to sell some weird junk whose name was meaningless. Now I think it is related.
This may be at least partially related to https://github.com/the-infocom-files/bureaucracy/issues/15
For the version found in Lost Treasures of Infocom 2 and https://github.com/historicalsource/bureaucracy/tree/master/COMPILED, there's strange behavior at the very beginning. I hadn't previously noticed this because I hadn't played Bureaucracy on a non-Infocom interpreter. I discovered this problem incidental to an incident filed for Frotz at https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz/-/issues/248.
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. Starting DOSBOX and loading the game from the Lost Treasures 2 CD image gives me the correct output.I tried this with the Unix Frotz variants, xzip, jzip (both under Linux), and with Windows Frotz. All show the same garbage.