Hi, and thanks for reporting this bug. Unfortunately, although I've tried various approaches, I've so far been unable to reproduce it.
Would you mind trying to compile the binary from source, and testing whether this works at all? Also, in case it doesn't, it would be very helpful if you could send the crash info it produces to me. Here's one way how to build from source: sudo apt-get install git autoconf automake gcc libsdl2-dev make libxml2-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libncursesw5-dev libsndfile1-dev libfreetype6-dev git clone --recursive https://github.com/chrender/fizmo-dist cd fizmo-dist autoreconf -fvi mkdir -p $HOME/opt/fizmo ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/fizmo --enable-tracing make install $HOME/opt/fizmo/bin/fizmo-sdl2 <some-z-machine-file> Careful: The "--enable-tracing" switch will cause the fizmo binaries built by this compiler run to create a file named "tracelog.txt" in the current directory which will get very large very fast. In case the fizmo-sdl2 built by this procedure crashes like the packaged debian version, please compress the tracelog.txt and send it to me. Thanks in advance, Christoph.