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Campbell, sorry - got busy and didn't check back here for a while. Email resent. Let me know if you don't receive it.

Campbell, a while ago I sent through a sample TAF and script file of differences between V4 and V5? Did you receive that?

For comparison, the ALR in "Cursed" has 9861 lines, and is about 1mb in size. There are 156 events. The game itself is fine during play, although it takes a while to index the ALR at the start of play. When I hit slowdown issues I found the issues were more about the following: - wildcard commands (...

To DCBSupafly: Yes, the choice of animal will impact how the game will play, and the things you can/can't do. To Peter: Yes, I delayed putting the announcement up because I wanted the IFArchive link to be functional - I know I could have used the link to the ADRIFT site, but I thought the IFArchive ...

For those who are interested, I have release a post-comp version of my game "Cursed". It includes a brand new prologue (attempting to remove a lot of the criticism the original version received relating to the long, non-interactive intro, while at the same time reducing the amount of "telling" that ...

Thanks, Campbell.

File should be landing in your inbox as we speak/type.
Thanks!

I want to update "Cursed" on the downloads page, and put a new file (ZIP) in there to replace the previous file. But when I edit the game page I don't have an option to load a new file. Is that by design? Do I need to create a new game page?

There appears to be a problem with the way v5 handles complex commands from v4. The following samples illustrate this: v5: {go/climb/jump/get} [down/d] {off/from} {the} {curtain/curtains} --> fails for "d" or "down" v5: {go/climb/jump/get} [down/d] {the} {curtain/curtains} --> fails for "d" or "down...

Campbell, I just wanted to ask how committed you are to getting v5 fully backward compatible with v4? I ask this, because I've been doing some testing and I've already found a number of differences in default text responses. I can start logging all the differences I find, but you're probably in a be...

In v5 runner, you can't seem to enter multiple commands on a single line:
eg:

open note, read it
open note and read it
open note then read it
open note. read it

Not sure if this has been raised as an issue yet, because there doesn't appear to be a "search" function on the bugs and enhancements list.

Better still allow full customisation of these type of messages to allow the user to use their own preferences.

For v4 compatibility, the v5 runner has to just "know" what the right settings are, because v4 games can't set any v5 preferences.

I think, if you want to be serious about backwards compatibility, you definitely need to have a "v4 compatibility" option.

In v5, when you enter "X ME", all held items will be displayed as well as worn items. In v4, when you enter "X ME", only worn items will be displayed. eg: V5: > X ME Your name is John. You are ten years old, almost eleven. You are wearing a tracksuit, and are carrying a stopwatch. V4: > X ME Your na...

In v5, when a disambiguation message is displayed it is shown like this:

Which box? The red box or the blue box.

In v4, the message is displayed like this:

Which box. The red box or the blue box?

Note the different locations of "?" and "." characters.