From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Infocom games locally??
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:05:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008901c26312$b0985690$4a01a8c0@rgallegos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209201846060.1759-100000@homerun.us>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@eskimo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Infocom games locally??
> As for the Frotz interpreter, I've found that the Linux version is
> usable, but doesn't read very well with speech. It tends to repeat itself
> when the screen scrolls. Games written with Tads and using the Tadsr
> interpreter seem to read better, but both are playable and provide great
> entertainment in Linux.
In Linux for inform style games such as infocom style try jzip instead.
It's much easier and reads things correctly. If you use Debian you can
apt-get install jzip. If not then visit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jzip// and you can get it.
Cheers.
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Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1)
` Alex Snow
` Aaron Howell
` Adam Myrow
` Raul A. Gallegos [this message]
` Igor Gueths
` Geoff Shang
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` Thomas Ward
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