Re: [orca-list] issues with orca and interactive fiction interpreters

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

As an aside, here (Slint, orca-3.27.3), for gargoyle orca says the
window's and spells what I type at the prompt in the interpreter but
don't say the displayed text.

I tried with two games, busted.dat and 3monkeys.taf

Best regards,

Didier

I tried with two games, 

Le 09/04/2018 à 06:48, kendell clark a écrit :
> hi all
>
> I'm not sure if this has been brought up hear before or not, but orca
> doesn't seem to like apps for playing interactive fiction (IF) games.
> These are text programs usually in the zMachine format but they can be
> other formats as well. There are two apps in ubuntu mate for playing
> these, one console and one graphical. Orca kind of works with the
> console one, called frotz, although it can't seem to keep up with the
> text very well. It doesn't work at all with the graphical one, called
> gargoyl, which supports not only text only games but games with sound
> and graphics as well.  Could it be possible to add a plugin for these
> apps, if it's a simple fix that is? I'd be happy to provide a debug log
> if needed. This affects both orca master and stable. The console app
> might be ncurses or something, which may be why orca doesn't care for it
> much. I'm not sure what gargoyl uses, but orca can read the file open
> dialog, but can't navigate the app using flat review, and won't read any
> of the game text.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark