Infocom games locally??

Infocom games locally??

[Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1)]

I'll check out the telnet as well.  Can you get an infocom interpreter and 
games anywhere to run right at home??

I remember the frotz things for dos, but is there a lin version of 
things??  Thanks as always.

Re: Infocom games locally??

[Alex Snow]

Yes, you can get a linux interpriter at ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archives.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1)" <paulmigs@migliorelli.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: Infocom games locally??


> I'll check out the telnet as well.  Can you get an infocom interpreter and
> games anywhere to run right at home??
>
> I remember the frotz things for dos, but is there a lin version of
> things??  Thanks as always.
>
>
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Re: Infocom games locally??

[Aaron Howell]

Hi there,
You can build frotz under Linux.
There's a debian package of it as part of the main distribution,
There's a redhat package in contrib, but its out of date, so redhat users might want to build their own.
its available somewhere under if-archive, though I don't remember where.
Regards
Aaron
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:43:12PM -0600, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1) wrote:
> I'll check out the telnet as well.  Can you get an infocom interpreter and 
> games anywhere to run right at home??
> 
> I remember the frotz things for dos, but is there a lin version of 
> things??  Thanks as always.
> 
> 
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Re: Infocom games locally??

[Adam Myrow]

Just to update everybody, don't use ftp.gmd.de anymore.  The site is no
longer being maintained and all its content is now at
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org and is being maintained.  Apparently, the gmd site
was supposed to be shut down because the place was being bought out or
some such, and everybody decided to move to the US.

As for the original Infocom games, the best place to get them is to find a
used copy of the Masterpieces of Infocom CD.  This CD contained the vast
majority of the games, but is getting really hard to find.  I managed to
pick it up a few years ago from an online store that featured hard-to-find
software.  There is a web site http://infodoc.plover.net which has the
documentation for some of the Infocom games in text format, and most are
in PDF.  The eventual goal of the site is to provide documentation for all
the games in both formats with the text version containing descriptions of
the graphical content, but it still has a ways to go.  In many of the
Infocom games, the documentation is absolutely necessary as they used it
as a form of copy protection.

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.  Another great place to check out Interactive
Fiction as they like to call it plus some other stuff is the Chungkuo BBS.
Just telnet to chungkuo.org and apply for an account.  The only thing
required is a valid email address so they can mail you a randomly
generated password and they say that they delete the address after that.
You can find Infocom games, many rare text games, a lot of old BBS doors,
and board games on the BBS.  It runs Linux too, so that makes it a perfect
showcase of the power of Linux.  when you can play LORD with other players
logged in and then go to an Infocom classic or play Checkers against the
computer (Braille display recommended if you have it,) it really is a
testimony to how powerful a PC running Linux is compared to one running
Windows.

Re: Infocom games locally??

[Raul A. Gallegos]

----- 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.

Re: Infocom games locally??

[Igor Gueths]

Hi there. You can try intfiction from ftp.gmd.de/if-archive believe it or
not that site is still up! I haven't played with it but its worth a look.

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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1) wrote:

> I'll check out the telnet as well.  Can you get an infocom interpreter and
> games anywhere to run right at home??
>
> I remember the frotz things for dos, but is there a lin version of
> things??  Thanks as always.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Infocom games locally??

[Geoff Shang]

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1) wrote:
>
> > I'll check out the telnet as well.  Can you get an infocom interpreter and
> > games anywhere to run right at home??
> >
> > I remember the frotz things for dos, but is there a lin version of
> > things??  Thanks as always.

There is a linux version of frotz.  It is a debian package and may also be
packaged in other distros.  You can also get it from
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3222/frotz.html and you can
find a wealth of stuff at http://www.ifarchive.org .  BTW: Frotz is located
on ifarchive in the infocom/interpreters section, in  case you can't find
it.  There's also a wealth of non-infocom games - some are even GPL, and if
you really get keen, you can learn inform and write your own.

Geoff.

Re: Infocom games locally??

[Thomas Ward]

Speaking of infocom games I have a question. I have been playing Arthor been
doing well, but come to find out the only way to get the password for the
castle is to look in your manual for Lot's pome  and find the verse and line
you are given while hiding behind the thrown.

Does anyone have this pome? I really want  to be able to get out of the
castle with the prisoner, and back in to fight Lot after I have proven my
knighthood.