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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Solid Gold Edition)
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Build Game #2

Open AlexProudfoot opened 5 years ago

AlexProudfoot commented 5 years ago

Build the game using the ZILF toolset. Eliminate compilation and startup errors where necessary.

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

The game does not quite build out-of-the-box under Linux:

$ zilf hitchhiker.zil
ZILF 0.9 built 11/08/2019 13.31.00

 *** THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: Interactive Science Fiction ***
[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:18: INSERT-FILE: file not found: MISC

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:19: INSERT-FILE: file not found: HEART

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:20: INSERT-FILE: file not found: PARSER

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:21: INSERT-FILE: file not found: SYNTAX

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:22: INSERT-FILE: file not found: VERBS

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:23: INSERT-FILE: file not found: EARTH

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:24: INSERT-FILE: file not found: VOGON

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:25: INSERT-FILE: file not found: UNEARTH

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:26: INSERT-FILE: file not found: GLOBALS

[error MDL0604] hitchhiker.zil:27: INSERT-FILE: file not found: HINTS

10 errors

Once I've changed the file names to lower case, it seems to work fine.