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- From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
- Subject: Re: Infocom DATA file client Source Needed.
- Message-ID: <7864@public.BTR.COM>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 23:50:46 GMT
- References: <Btqn76.3ss@agora.rain.com>
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- In article <Btqn76.3ss@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
- >Normally, I'd use archie, but I don't have the foggiest what the name of
- >the Infocom data client was called. In case nobody knows what I'm talking
- >about. The text-adventures by Infocom were composed of a data file
- >and a client for the cpu. I have a few old Infocom games that I recently
- >found in my closet and would like to play them on my unix machine.
- >So if anyone has the source for the client software, or can direct me
- >to the local ftp site, I'd be more than in your debt! 8^)
-
- What you want is "zmachine".
-
- The copy I use (on Sun-{3, 4}, SGI, HP, etc.) I found at:
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- plains.nodak.edu
-
- as the file (from my notes):
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- Minix/st.contrib/Infocom.tar.Z
-
- It is a featureful ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) interpreter with
- emacs-style (ala ksh and bash) command line editing.
-
- "zmachine" is by Matthias Pfaller, leo@marco.uucp, and is ONLY for the
- "standard" (not Infocom plus) games (the "plus" games are the ones with
- audio and/or special graphics).
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- The games I know which work are Enchanter, Leather Goddesses ..., Hitchhiker,
- Lurking Horror, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Starcross, Zork {I, II, III}.
-
- If you get "stuck", an Infocom data file vocabulary dumper (in source form)
- was recently posted to comp.sys.amiga.games by:
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- Martin Brenner, brenner@crab.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
-
-
- There were a few minor glitches compiling "zmachine" for UNIX, but nothing
- that couldn't be rectified in a few moments' time.
-
- As one who spent an entire 2-weeks' vacation (back in late 1979) playing ZORK
- on a DEC-20 (and winning! :-), I recommend "zmachine"! :-)
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
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