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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Frotz for X (was: JZIP (was:Re: Duke Nukem 3d))
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Carl Edman (cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu) wrote:
> >    Well, Frotz color doesn't work as well as Jzip yet, but on the bright
> > side, at least I'll finally have the X and text interpreters with
> > compatible save files...  will Frotz save files be universal across
> > architectures, or system-dependant?

> Actually, I've been working on porting frotz to X as well -- in fact I
> had a very primitive prototype working.

Heh -- competition. I might as well ask: Which interpreters share a 
save format? And -- where is it documented so I can support it too?

Hopefully the common one is one of the short-file formats (a charming 
hack which saves only the differences between the current game state and 
the initial game state.)

--Z

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