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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. play 4 30 minutes
2.
3.

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
I expect to play for much longer periods of time without having to reset my 
iPod Touch.

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0
Yes
What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, ...)2.0


Please provide any additional information below.

It would be nice to be able to sort the story list by:
Name (alphabetical)
Last Played

and someday:
Author
Date
Rating

Also renaming of story titles or finding the proper cover/info from IFDB would 
be great - for some 
reason The Lurking Horror comes in as lurkinghorror and it bugs me :)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Type 'save' in any game.
2. Type in a name for the save file and click return.
3. I am getting Save Failed every time.

I am using a jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone.  I downloaded Frotz and the Zork
Z-Code packages from the installer.  I have also tried manually creating
the folder /var/root/Media/Frotz/Saves/ with 777 permissions. What am I
doing wrong? :)

Please describe the feature request:
Is there any way to load up or use an existing save file used by say a
program like "Spatterlight?" 

http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight/

Thanks!

R

See summary.

It bugs Andrew Plotkin.  That won't do.

 Allow URLs to be entered in IFDb Browser  that don't begin with http:, so you can access ftp sites et 
al directly.

The game files should be stored in ~/Media/Frotz/Games, not 
~/Library/Frotz/Games. Not only is 
this more "correct" in that games are media, but it also means I can upload via 
iphuc instead of ssh.

Use quetzal format save files for compatibility with other interpreters.
Auto-append file suffix if not provided.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Type an accented Latin 1 character, pound sign, etc.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The character is ignored, or the wrong character is echoed

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

Please describe the feature request:
Add the ability to play story files transfered to the device using DataCase.

DevNote:  DataCase appears to use a database and not just regular files to 
store its data, so this 
may not be easy to do.

In Frotz version 3, iPhone firmware 1.0.1.
1. Play game for a bit.
2. Exit to application selector
3. Tap on Frotz and it attempts to restore the game.

Text progressively becomes more garbled and starts from close to the
beginning of the game. I am using the game Blue Chairs version 2 downloaded
from:
http://wurb.com/if/game/2396

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Play a game which has a multi-line status bar like Curses
2. Rotate the phone
3. Observe the status bar is the incorrect height until you type a command( 
which causes it to 
update)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. attempting to load .z3 and .z5 files from a web server on my network
2. frotz says it downloaded the file and shows it in the list.
3. selecting the story in the list gives an error "Unreadable Story file"

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
The game should start. I've tested these in a  z machine on my desktop and
they work fine.

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2)
2.0.2

Please provide any additional information below.

If I type `save` in a game, the resulting save file ends up at the root of the 
filesystem. Frotz should 
default the current directory to Frotz/Saves.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Tapping Frotz icon
2.
3.

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
I see the splash screen. Then it quits to the apps screen.


What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, ...)
2.0.1


Please provide any additional information below.

Landscape mode for keyboard input would be welcomed :-)

Like what you are doing. Thanks.

Hope the updates will continue on installer.app so we can keep up.

Also for all those who want Z-Machine downloads go here:
http://www.edgeemu.com/roms.php?system=zmachine

After much searching websites for ROMs,
I found Hitchhikers Guide and WishBringer at this site. Enjoy!

thanks

I seem to remember in the 'unofficial' version of the app that these settings 
could be changed. 
Would love to see this in the official app!

In the IFDB browser, dictionary word completion is still enabled.  It shouldn't 
be.

Please describe the feature request:
The longer you play, the more sluggish the text updates become because the 
iPhone isn't able to 
update the formatting in the scroll back buffer fast enough.
Truncating to the most recent few hundred lines to improve performance.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. tap to open Frotz on iPhone
2. Intro screen appears
3. Current adventure (Pyramid of Doom) displays for a fraction of a second,
then Frotz dies and I return to the main iPhone screen

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
I expect Frotz to open and allow me to play.

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2)
2.0.2

Please provide any additional information below.

The current titlescreen works great, but I was bored and whipped these 2 
possible alternatives up.

 (files attached below)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load it to the iPod (I#ve used the installer)
2. Starts the application
3. After looking at a blank screen you're returned to the home screen

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6 / 1.1.1 on an iPod Touch

Currently if I exit to the main iphone launcher screen, or if I turn the iphone 
off (without exiting the 
application) and then attempt to return to the game it is reset entirely.

This is really not usable like this.  It is not uncommon to wait more than 1 
minute between entering 
commands.  If you wait a full minute the the screen turns off automatically, 
and the game is reset.

If it is difficult to keep the game running for some reason then perhaps it 
would be easier to simply 
do an auto-save feature.  Whenever exiting the game, or putting the phone to 
sleep simply auto 
save to a specific file name, and add an easy way of returning to that saved 
game.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Playing Curses
2. At some times, UI becomes unresponsive (return key doesn't seem to work)
3. After delay of 15-30 seconds, UI becomes responsive again.

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?


What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Only a short tap should show/hide the keyboard, and it should leave the cursor 
alone.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Not sure how to reproduce
2. Was playing tangle.z5
3.

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
switched to landscape, and when I went back to portrait, the black menu bar
(with the "Story List" button in it stayed in landscape mode, while the
rest of the screen went back to portrait. So the black menu bar obscures
the text area. The "Story List" button still works, but it never goes back
to the top of the screen in protrait mode. Also, switching back to
landscape, hides the menubar, but when you go back to portrait mode again,
the bar is still in the wrong place. home button, then back to frotz seems
to fix it. 


What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, ...)
I'm not sure if I'm on 2.0.1. 


Please provide any additional information below.

Please describe the feature request:
 Add a note taking screen available off of the main story playing UI

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load any Z5 file (not from installer)
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Text adventure to start. Game complains about text width. Screen clears and 
nothing plays. Just 
a menu bar of some kind at the top.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using Frotz .7 on Jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhone.

Please provide any additional information below.
My text adventures used to work on 1.1.2. Never tried on 1.1.3. Cant get them 
to work under 
1.1.4. Strange thing is that the Zork ones on the installer work fine.

These are all Infocom Games.

I copy the same files that work in WinFrotz to my web server and download
them on the iPhone.  Some of them show the proper icon, others don't.  All
of them fail to work.

I get the following error message:
Unreadable story file...
Frotz doesn't understand the format of this file


What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, ...)
Latest

Please describe the feature request:
 I purchased Mobile Finder in hopes of being able to FTP some Z5 files, but
alas, it is unsupported. Mobile Finder may be easier to get working than
Datacase. You're doing a wonderful job on this. Please keep it up!

Thanks.

Tallfrogy

Is there a way to delete the stories that come pre-loaded?

Could we enhance the product to make it compatible with the recently released 
iPhone SDK?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open any of the 3 Zork games in the repository
2. Go to story list, confirm change to another story, i.e. from Zork Dungeon
3. Slows down totally

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should switch to the other game, instead it whitens out and won't respond to 
clicks and the 
phone freezes up. Holding home returns me back.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Zork Z-Code 1 on iPhone 1.1.1

Please provide any additional information below.

Please describe the feature request:

I'm not willing to risk including Infocom's Zork data files without permission 
from Activision, but 
there's no harm in linking to someone else's hosting them, right?
Add links to http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/ 

Using installer.app when trying to update it does not complete. 

There is an error like this:
"Error during install script execution!"

Just wanted to bring to your attention.

Thank you!

Doesn't work in the new 1.1.1 software...I know this is already known etc,
but perhaps a version without any type of auto-complete could be made
available until a suitable work-around is found.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.1 - iphoneFrotz 0.5


Please provide any additional information below.

It would save a lot of typing if you could enter a word from the history at the 
command line just by 
tapping on it on the screen. This feature was certainly in at least one Palm OS 
Z-code interpreter.

It might also be handy if you could enter the command to move in a compass 
direction by dragging 
two fingers in that direction.

I get this error message when installing v0.4 through the Wifi Installer V1.8.
"Error during install script execution"

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I don't have File Magnet.  But I do have Datacase
2. I have tried to rename my old infocom games to, for instance, Starcross.z3
3. I transfer successfully to the iPhone via Datacase.  But it doesn't show up 
in Frotz

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
Nothing

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.0, 2.0.1, ...)
iPhone 2.0.1

Please provide any additional information below.
You really should make the games that are included to be deleteable (not just 
hideable).  Every 
tiny bit of space that we can preserve on our phones, the better.  And, quite 
frankly, after playing 
one of the included games -- I desperately want it gone.  It really sucks.  

Thanks for your help.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run the Infocom z-code "Trinity"
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Get a very quickly flashed message along the lines of "Screen too narrow to 
display"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I had copy the files in the directory
2. I open Frotz

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

He tells me "No Story Files Found"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Is Frotz 0.7, I had firmware 1.1.4

Please describe the feature request:
I have the infocom .dat files myself, and was wondering if you can make
Frotz/iPhone stripped down without built-in stories? With iPhone having
problems with large numbers of apps and their sizes (all have to be < 500MB
total supposedly), I've cut down a minimum of small apps. Frotz is
relatively large @ 7.3Mb...it'd probably be 1Mb or so without the extra
stuff. thanks - paul....paorphanos ..at.. gmail.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start a game
2. Go back to the Story List and say yes to the abort prompt
3. Pick a new game.

You might hang, you might not.

If you do, hold down home to kill the program.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add personal files over wireless with AFP (i.e., direct from Finder)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
A list of .z5 and .z8 files. I see those, but I also see a ".AppleDouble",
a ".AppleDouble/.Parent", a ".AppleDouble/Zork.z5" for each story file, a
":2eDS_Store" and a ".AppleDouble/:2eDS_Store".

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.7, on 1.1.4. Transferring files with OS X 10.4.11.

Please provide any additional information below.
Terminal cannot see the AppleDouble invisibles using ls -a.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Loaded up a URL to download and install file.
2. Selected a .sav file by mistake.

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
Got a standard error message saying that it could not open the .sav file
and it has three typos:

"fie", "Frtoz", and "instal"

http://flickr.com/photos/rossr/2761508250/

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.0

Please provide any additional information below.
Thanks!

I am using the new version of iphonefrotz on my ipod touch. My computer's
operating system is Windows XP, and so can't use the magnet program
mentioned before. I would like to transfer my infocom z files onto this new
version of iphonefrotz, how can I do this?

Sorry if this is addressed elsewhere, but I didn't find a solution in my
searching.

 http://openclip.org/main.php

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Type "save"
2. Enter a name for the file


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected something like save completed... But i get save failed...

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Frotz 0.7, Jailbroken Iphone firmware 1.1.4

Please provide any additional information below.
I just wish i could save... I created a save folder on Frotz/Saves folder
but still nothing....