Subj : Re: Infocom games user display issues...
To   : Nathanael Culver
From : Shane O'Neill
Date : Mon Sep 09 2019 09:06 pm

WOW You have given me a lot of homework and I love it!!!!

 NC> Under DOS, screen control was standardized, so if you're running DOS
 NC> versions I'd think it wouldn't matter. But if I recall your problem was
 NC> that on the user end everything was displaying on the top line, and that
 NC> sounds like a screen control problem, 
 NC> maybe something with the fossil driver not correctly translating control
 NC> codes.

To correct your good memory just a bit, the user screen only shows the FOSSIL
drive text at the top (just like all the working ones) and then NOTHING else.
Not even games text at the top row, just all black until I go to the windows 7
mystic machine and open that users window which is showing the game correctly
and exit them from the game.  Then the users screen on their end returns them
back to the bbs games menu and all is good.  If you go to my bbs
(bbs.8bitboyz.com:6502) and go to the games section, from there menu option
IF for infocom and run any of those games you will see they work. then while
in the infocom game menu type TT (its my hidden menu command to test the AMFV
game and you will see the fossil drive text then nothing and will have to
hang up.

Tomorrow I am working at home so I will do what you posted to check on
things...How ever i did try using the Hollywood Hijinx .com file to call up
the AMFV.dat by renaming AMFV.dat file to match Hijinx file and it still did
not work. I know that was crude but will try your approach for sure!

Tonight I did do the following just to isolate the fossil and now like you
I think that fossil is maybe my issue.  The following is part of my .bat file
that executes each of the games:
    
    :COMMAND  

    REM *** This goes to the users game folder, passes data to netfoss 
              and runs the game ***

    cd c:\mystic\doors\infocom\games\!u_games\%4\%1"
    c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com /m /i /t%1  
    %game% c:\mystic\temp%1\door.sys
    c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com /m /i0
    cd\

So what I did was remove the /m and /i to the above and tried to run HIJINX
that is currently  working. The result by removing those flags HIJINX then
had the the no user display issue. I added back just the /m and it then
worked. So I then added back the /i and course it worked having both the /m
and /i .

Does that give you any clues?  

I will report back tomorrow after I try your suggestions also!

Thanks again!

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