Archive for the ‘Doh!’ Category

Fix for black-on-black issue in Zoom 1.1.0 July 9th, 2007

The X11 version of Zoom 1.1.0 has an issue that can cause it to appear black on black. Oops: this was caused by a new preference in the OS X version not having an equivalent in the X11 version.

I’ve made a patch for this problem, which you can download here.

(Updated 13/07/07 to fix a further issue which could result in some games now having psychedelic colours. Sigh.)

TADS 3 plugin fails to save games under Zoom 1.1.0 June 3rd, 2007

Oops, it seems that due to a bug in CocoaGlk, TADS 3 games are unable to save their contents. If you’re encountering this problem, I’ve written a workaround. You can download an updated version of the TADS 3 plugin here.

To install it, right-click on your copy of Zoom in the Finder, choose ‘Get Info’, then go to the plugins tab and click ‘Add…’: the old plug-in will be replaced and TADS 3 will regain the ability to save games.

The next version of Zoom will incorporate this fix.