Re: Timing in JZIP


19 Nov 1995 08:51:45 GMT

John Menichelli <menichel@pixi.com> wrote:
>I modified the source code to JZIP to better handle timing functions. I
>then ran freefall and timed (the test program from the new
>specification). Those two programs ran at the correct speed. However,
>Border Zone runs 10 times too fast.
>

According to the new Z-Machine specification (Standard 0.2), page 52, under the
description on 'read', there are *two* bugs in Zip which cancel each other out
so that Border Zone will run correctly. You have corrected one bug. The
other bug is that the function called from within read is called with
the time value as an argument.

Bjorn