Re: Is EXAMINE necessary? (was Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal)

["Adam Atkinson" <ghira@mistral.co.uk>]

On 07-Sep-99 11:33:32, Iain Merrick said:

>I was just rather
>surprised to read in the documentation to the Z-code ports that as few
>additions as possible had been made.

This is because it's an exercise in restoration more than anything
else. The experience should be as authentic as possible.

> The porters seemed to be trumpeting
>genuine flaws -- or what I see as flaws -- as essential elements of
>classic games.

It's not so much trumpeting as a warning. These games have been
restored to life in something as close to their original state as
could be managed.

Please note that they weren't really "ported". Graham has written a
cross-compiler which turns Phoenix source into zcode. We have made as
few changed to the Phoenix source code as possible - this is partly
because the original games were known to work well enough to have
withstood several years' play by moderate numbers of people. Anything
that appeared to be a bug was thus probably the translator. Changing
the Phoenix source would interfere with this.

-- 
Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk)
A hollow voice says "PLUGH"