From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from saidin.asmodean.net ([66.93.252.130]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tUmt-00013V-00 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:06:15 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=rgallegos) by saidin.asmodean.net with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tUmQ-0007xM-00 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:05:46 -0500 Message-ID: <008901c26312$b0985690$4a01a8c0@rgallegos> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: References: Subject: Re: Infocom games locally?? Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:05:42 -0500 Organization: Asmodean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" To: 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.