[Jzip-devel] Re: SourceForge, Introduction, Project Tasks

[Jason C P. <jp...@ch...>]

Hi guys,

Sorry for the delay in the reply...  I went out and bought a new hard 
drive and spent the last few days moving stuff over and setting up 
VC++ 5, wxWindows, WinCVS and ssh.

J. Holder sent a message across the ether on 29 Jun 2000, (8:51) stating:

> > Do you think it will compile under VC5 (I found it, that's what I
> > have)?  If so I'll try to get another hard drive and work on that
> > until my linux box is up.
> 
> VC5 should also work.  Chances are one of the two of us will have to
> rebuild the wxWindows distribution for MSWin to make it go.

I've pulled down and built wxWindows under VC5.  It builds the 
samples ok, so I seem all right there.
 
> --Introduction time!

My turn!  I'm 24, and live with my long time girlfriend, Denise.  I'm 
big fan of audio drama (from Old Time Radio, to much more recent 
stuff).  I spend some of my time doing audio restoration to old 
episodes of "The Shadow".  I have a BS in Computer Science.  I fell 
right out of college into a job with Sun Microsystems.  I used to 
work in QA for Solaris Software (formerly SunSoft).  I now work in 
the software QA group for Network Storage (still at Sun).

Here's a bit of my IF/Z-Machine history...  I originally played 
adventure on an old Wang system when my mother took me to work one 
time.  I was addicted.  I never had a computer when any of the 
Infocom games where out, but I played some of them at other peoples 
houses.  I got a used 8088 around the time Lost Treasures came out.  
I was fascinated with Zork Zero.  When I got to college it took me 
about a week to find usenet, and from there raif and rgif.  All the 
buzz was about some game "Curses".  From there I stumbled across the 
Z-Machine.

I devowered the ZSpec.  I stared playing with Inform (this was around 
95).  My goal right off the bat was to make V6 work.  I started 
porting Adventure to the Arthur dos interpreter.  Found bugs in 
Inform, specs changed, Frotz appeared.  Serious work began on what is 
now V6Lib.  The Blorb spec appeared.  I got Inform to compile a 
playable game using the pics from Zork0 to make a compass rose status 
bar (around 97).  A certain John Holder was the first person to see 
this besides me....

(Hope you don't mind John)
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Date sent:      	Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:24:50 -0600
From:           	jh...@fr... (J. Holder)
To:             	jp...@ch...
Subject:        	Re: Beyond Zork-y games

Jason C Penney writes:
> Hi,
> 
> 	Just curious if you go a chance to take a look at the test file or 
not.
>  If so, what do you think?

Yup.  Looks pretty straghtforward - I'm now eagerly anticipating
the library!  Now if we could only get some blorb-capable
interpreters out... (looks guilty)  I've been neglecting Jzip
for WAY too long...
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I put out a release of V6Lib, and a few more, and advent.z6.  And 
then the waiting game began for me.  Blorb Frotz was a serious 
project for a while.  I did some work to help Stephan port Frotz to 
djgpp (which he duplicated because he fell behind in his email... 
d'oh!).  Then it just stopped.... HTML-TADS appeared, Glk/Glux/Gluxe 
popped up.  I kept working on V6Lib, but it slowed down since I was 
pretty much out of things I could do without a modern interpreter.

Recently I got on the ifMud (which I used to frequent almost daily, 
and now sadly I log in every six months) and found that quite a few 
people there wanted to know what was up with V6Lib.  I wondered 
myself. :-)  While doing a bit of looking around at options to build 
my own Zterp (a doomed concept at best), I stumbled across 
jzip.sourceforge.net, and here I am!

Whew!  Sorry about all that... you still awake?

> Back to business - I've added some tasks in the Project/Task manager.
> The V6 task will be owned by Jay, I will support.  I own the Unicode
> task.  We all share the wxWindows task.  Subtasks for V6 should be
> created by Jay (if you need any).  The initial wxWindows task is one
> we should each implement.

As far as V6 goes, how do we handle the stuff that's already there?  
The memory access routines and such?  A lot of the standard opcodes 
change behavior in V6 as well.

Before I get well ahead of myself... I'm not sure I'm doing things 
quite right, so let me check with you guys.  I should do a checkout 
of everything to get a local copy, right?  Is Jzip set up to build 
out of this directory structure?  I want to make sure I can make the 
dumb version before I do anything else, so for right now that's the 
hurdle.  I know I CAN do it (copy the files into one directory), but 
I want to make sure I'm doing the it the right way.  Any  
pointers/instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Jay Penney

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