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From: buzzard@TheWorld.com (Sean T Barrett)
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Andrew Hunter <andrew@logicalshift.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>So what exactly is it that I am missing to make the Z-machine look better
>>than it does in, say, Nitfol? Or the above-maligned WinFrotz?
>
>ObPlug: the Mac OS X version of Zoom is at
>http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/, and that web page is complete
>with screenshot for your comparason pleasure.

I really don't get this--sadly neither you nor Kevin B have
been posting screenshots of the things you're complaining about.
In point of fact, the WinFrotz I run (and you can make an
unmodified WinFrotz look like this, this has nothing to do
with my bugfixes) looks like this:

   http://nothings.org/winfrotz.gif

Forgive the size. It uses a fixed-width font because I'm kind
of old-school that way--the color scheme also imitates the
old Atari 8-bit default text display. As you can see, Windows'
font smoothing provides proper anti-aliasing, if your fonts
use sufficient pixels per character.

All I see in the various screen shots you two have posted is lots of
OS-specific border coloring/imagery etc. that I am always quick to turn
off anyway. (Note the lack of gradient title bar in my screen shot.)

Of course there is other optional "junk" that you can turn on
in WinFrotz, and it defaults to on, but that's a sort of standard
"make it easier for novice users", and having it available at all
seems better than not having it available. For example, when I'm
playing comp games, I leave WinFrotz' status bar on, since that
shows the time played.

SeanB
