Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!news.nacamar.de!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!netcom.com!erkyrath
From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: MaxZip still won't work on my Mac
Message-ID: <erkyrathE0vBIA.JKG@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
References: <56e2d5$bj4@milo.vcn.bc.ca> <19961114151600.KAA23033@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:08:34 GMT
Lines: 28
Sender: erkyrath@netcom.netcom.com

nulldogma@aol.com wrote:
> > Maxzip will *not* work on my new laptop.  First, it failed on system
> > 7.5.2.  I updated to 7.5.3v.2, and it still won't work.  I even loaded
> > MaxZip on another full-blown mac with 7.5.2, and it failed on that
> > computer as well.  Someone else 

...the author...

> > said (I think) that it was written on
> > 7.5.3.  Am I terribly unlucky?  I'm getting rid of my old computer, and
> I
> > would love to be able to play infocom games on my new machine.  Any
> > suggestions?

> I've used MaxZip with 7.5.2, 7.5.3, and now 7.5.5, all with no problems.
> Can you post here the exact error messages you get? 

I actually started developing it under 7.1, and it still works under 7.1.

If you're sure that you've got a valid game file (like, the same game 
file works on one machine but not another) I don't know what could be wrong.

--Z

-- 

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
