[z-machine] WinFrotz2002 output_stream

[Amir Karger]

--- David Kinder <d.kinder@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > When I frotz a.z5, I am asked twice for a filename. 
> 
> Hmmmm. Looking at the spec, it seems the odd behaviour it defines
> is just to work around problems with Infocom's AMFV, which Frotz
> avoids by only asking for a filename once for Z-code V4 and
> below. I'm not too keen to change the behaviour since Frotz seems
> more sensible, and the spec is just clearly trying to work around
> an old Infocom bug.

Well, conveniently, we're currently talking about changing spec 1.1.
Should the new spec require this workaround only for v4, only for v<=4?

This makes things kind of ugly for czech, my spec-tester, because I'll
need to write different tests for different versions. But I agree with
you that it makes sense to be able to do this. In fact, I would argue
for only v4 to be special, so that v3 games could write to multiple
files.

> > Possibly another bug: if I say "yes, I want to replace a.scr" the
> > second time, it does NOT delete and replace a.src. Rather, it just
> > writes "1 and 2 again" after "1 and 2".
> 
> By design, I think. I seem to recall that originally it did over-
> write script files: lots of people complained that it should append
> :)

The the dialog box ought to change, no?

-Amir

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