New PC version of _The Legend Lives!_ available


23 Apr 1995 10:57:49 GMT

At long last, I have built a GO32 version of the TADS run-time. This
should provide a stable environment for _Legend_. For those of you who
don't know, I released a version of this game that used the Borland DOS
extender recently, only to find that said extender was hideously buggy.

The new version is built on top of GO32, DJ Delorie's excellent 32-bit
protected mode DOS extender. GO32 should make things noticeably faster and
more robust; however, I have not tested this port of the run-time much at
all, so there may still be a few lingering bugs. (This version is derived
from the Unix front-end, not the DOS front-end, so a considerable amount of
code is completely different.) This version requires a 386SX or later CPU
to run.

Of interest to TADS users: if this version of the run-time proves to be
reliable on everybody's hardware, I will make a separate DOS TADS
distribution for it. This should finally put all our woes with big TADS
games under DOS to an end --- the GO32 version maxes out all the buffers so
you don't have to worry about tuning the heap size, stack size, etc.

Filename:

ftp.gmd.de: if-archive/games/adventions/pc/legend386.zip

Be sure to transfer in binary mode.

Dave Baggett
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