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Release candidate for Blocek 1.74 (Developers)

posted by fritz.mueller Homepage, Munich, Germany, 18.07.2023, 15:25

> Other bugs behaved different on these systems, I will try to check two more
> tomorrow.
OK, the two reported bugs seem to be fixed now. The special character "c" with accent in BLOCEK is not removed in english and russian language.

english text lines, cp437: 118, 141, 228, 239, 244, 247, 249

russian text lines cp866: BLOREC (R isturned around): 117, 141, 239, 244, 248, 251, 253.
BLO_EC (no c): line 228,
BLOCEK: lines 262, 337, 341, 344, 357
I think for translation it is better to use only one version of "BLOCEK".

I had no crashes on real machine till now. Bugs are fixed.

It seems that removing the c-accent may have improved running Blocek in virtualbox, but I am not yet sure. As I had assumed, the c with accent from the english unicode text is converted correct if you choose CP852 in a text, but as the machine runs with CP858, the c with accent is showed as special f (HEX 9F) in text.
But now and then there are still unreproducable crashes. In such cases virtualbox often shows the modern version of "hourglass" (a running circle) before, I have no idea, why.

At vmware player (is a little tricky to install, you have to add:
bios.bootDelay = "5555" in the vmx file to have a chance to come into BIOS with F2 within window, floppy image is a standard image with ".flp", you have to activate it via "Player - Removable devices - floppy - connect, move out via ALT-CTRL) the move of mouse is sometimes a little strange.

DOSBox: works.

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