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- WHAT IS ZIP AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
-
- ZIP is an interpreter that will run Infocom-compatible games. If you have old Infocom
- games for another system, you ought to be able to port them to your Mac with ZIP.
- For more info on how to do this, ask in rec.arts.int-fiction or rec.games.int-fiction.
-
- At the moment, though, the main reason you'll want ZIP is to play Curses. Curses is an
- absolutely wonderful text-adventure game written with Inform, Graham Nelson's Infocom-
- compatible programming language. Any fan of the old Infocom games will love Curses.
-
- You can download Curses from the same place in which you got ZIP. (At Sumex-aim,
- it ought to be /info-mac/game/curses.hqx.)
-
- To run Curses: download and, if necessary, decode Curses and ZIP. Double-click on
- ZIP's icon. A standard file dialogue will appear. Use it to select Curses. Select open,
- and curses will run.
-
- Once you're running Curses, you can type "help" to get instructions on how to
- play the game.
-
- I am not in any way affiliated with Curses, ZIP, Inform, or Infocom. I just think
- that Curses and ZIP are terrific programs, and I want to make them available
- to as wide a part of the Mac community as possible.
-
- If you love text-adventure games--or, more broadly, "interactive fiction"--I urge
- you to check out the Usenet groups rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction.
- You should also browse around in the interactive fiction archive at ftp.gmd.de; it's
- in the directory /if-archive.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- -Jacob Weinstein
- jacobw@va.us.net
-