A question about Nightfall

Here, Andreas Davour <anteRUN.DeleteThis@updatelike.uu.hellse> wrote:
>
> I didn't rate Nightfall because I couldn't find an interpreter that
> managed to play this game. Since it's actually written for a vm, and
> inspired by the zmachine which really takes cross platform
> interoperability to the highest level, I was a bit annoyed by that.
>
> So, since it actually finished *that* well (close to the excellent
> Violet) I'm not very interested in playing it.
>
> Which interpreter can play this game? It has to compile on a generic
> unix system. I have GlkTerm library version 0.7.8 installed.

GlkTerm 0.7.8 is pre-Unicode, and I7 requires a Unicode interpreter at
this point. Use GlkTerm 0.8.0. It's as generic as 0.7.8 was. (Or use
the newer GlkTermW 0.8.0, which is a little less generic -- it
requires the ncursesw library -- but is better at displaying Unicode
characters.)

(I'd hoped to set up a world in which you only needed a Unicode-aware
interpreter for games that actually used Unicode. And for a few years,
that's the situation we had. But not any more. With the advent of the
indexed-text and regexp features, there are too many layers of code --
I6 library code -- which have to be character-aware. The I7 libraries
now assume 32-bit characters are available; therefore, all games now
require a Unicode-aware interpreter.)

--Z

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