I have a tester who wants to play the game on a Mac.
He has downloaded one (or more) interpreters, and is able to run, for example “Return to Ditch Day.”
So I tried “Compiling for release” from Workbench and sent him that .t3 file, but now he gets the message: “VM error: datablock too small, game end”
What am I doing wrong???
Thanks,
–Bob
Is QTads the good Mac interpeter?
That’s really weird, I cannot even find the error message in frob sources nor in qtads sources, not even the word “datablock”. Valid t3 file should begin with “T3-image” and then binary data follows.
QTads is the only desktop interpreter for Mac OSX which is up to date. Other interpreters like Gargoyle won’t work for new Tads games. Frobtads (a text-only interpreter) can also be used.
We may not have an accurate quote of the error message - also it could be from Gargoyle or a random obsolete interpreter.
Thanks! I’ll ask my tester to install QTads and see if he can play from there. --Bob