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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: WinFrotz testing needed
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:52:28 GMT
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I've previously posted a test WinFrotz which fixes a bug
with color scrolling and which uses colors more similar to
DosFrotz.

I would like to officially release it in time for the competition,
but obviously we don't want to have lots of users downloading
a "plug-and-play" competition executable which exhibits bugs.
Therefore, it would be wonderfully helpful to me and to (I
hope) the community as a whole if as many Windows users as
possible could download and test the new version of WinFrotz.

Nothing else but color behavior should be changed; and the
new colors should still be compatible with existing games.
Both aspects need testing--non-color games should be unchanged
and color games should be improved.

Ideally anyone who downloaded would switch to using it full-time
(insofar as anyone uses WinFrotz full-time in the first
place) for the sake of testing.

If you download it and test it, please send me email, either
with bug reports or to say it works fine and some hint about how
much use it got, so I can determine how much testing it's seen.

   http://world.std.com/~buzzard/winfrotz.zip

This will dearchive the sole file "winfrotz.exe". Settings from
old installs of WinFrotz will be used.

Remember you still have to set "Full Color" mode in Display Options
to get color in WinFrotz. (Should I change this default? Dual Color
is potentially faster on old machines.)

Comp authors should feel free to test it or not, or to register
protests at the very idea of upgrading WinFrotz right at the comp.

SeanB
