Cary: Okay my friend. Here is what you and everyone else in this list serve must do, as well to get the "correct coordinates" to get to the space station.
Believe it or not, but this was the copy protection scheme Infocom used to prevent pirating of their software! I believe it worked! Everyone who is blind, well, in all sincerity, not true, but if you do not have all of the documentation which came with the game Station Fall, you, As well as everyone else, on this list serve must go to this website to play Station Fall on their PC's! Go to the website: infodoc.plover.net/ Then click on the link for read screen reader-friendly manuals. Out of all of the Infocom Games, only a few have been done for us at this website, but Station Fall is one of them. There is a lot of documentation in this game, and it would behoove all of us to read through it, but stop at the page WHICH HAS THIS PRINTED ON IT: Astrogator's navigational data (time:course) It will start off with these numbers: 4300 - 4349: 632 Now, AFTER YOU'VE PUT YOUR ACTIVATION FORM IN THE SPACE TRUCK, TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR chronometer and it will give you a number. I've started this game just to write this, and my Chronometer has the display of: 5816. Now, with the documentation your at, find out which set of numbers 5816 lies within, and type in the three digit number which follows the :. As a result, mine would be 169. After you type that in, type wait, and about three to four wait commands, the space station will come into view! Have fun playing! One last note: One command I believe everyone should know about is the mode command in all of the Infocom games which come with graphics! If you type "mode" without the quotes, this will convert the game solely to text! I've done this with Beyond Zork, and Zork 0! I will state, however, if you use JAWS 7 as your screen reader, it now will work with the graphic text in Zork 0! Don't worry, I still use the mode command, I found, when I read through the entire documentation of Beyond Zork I found at this website you can get all of this information on. As a result of this E-mail Cary sent out to the list serve, I wish to resend everyone the memo W. Scott Dillman wrote about the WinFrotzTTS2002 interpreter he updated to specifically work for the blind gamer. This interpreter will work with all of the Infocom games, as well as all of the other inform games he's put in a zipped file for us to play with as well. Zork 1, 2, 3 as well as Zork Dungeon, the original Zork game the people which started the company Infocom programmed. Folks, this is the original Zork game programmed on the MIT mainframe! You will see parts of all three Infocom games in this one huge game! Below is the memo W. Scott Dillman wrote for all of us! Have fun playing! WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter by W. Scott Dillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the most updated version of the popular WinFrotz Interpreter. This is an updated version of David Kinders great Inform interpreter 'WinFrotz 2002'. The main goal of WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter was to design an interface that was easy to use for the visually impaired gamer and to allow game play without the use of a screen reader by leveraging Microsoft's SAPI 5 speech Engine API. The application is freely available on my website for download along with a module of over 300 games from the Interactive Fiction Archive. This last version took a lot of hard work and testing, and still needs some improvement in areas. WinFrotzTTS was developed in my spare time and is a bit lean on good documentation. I advise anyone interested to stop by the forum links listed below and contribute to the enhancements request list and general conversation. The site will also run polls now and again to see which new features are most needed. I encourage everyone interested to stop by and make their voices heard. I have also briefly tested text-to-speech additions to 'Scare' which is another interpreter that runs Adrift text adventures which there seems to be a fair number of games, and a modification to the Level9 interpreter mostly just for nostalgia sake. Please direct all questions about this updated version of the WinFrotzTTS2002 to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the important links: Main website: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/iftts Main download page: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/iftts/modules.php?name=Downloads Deep link to the updated WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter download: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/iftts/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=v iewdownload&cid=2 Deep link to the IF Archive game module download: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/iftts/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=v iewdownload&cid=5 Link to the forums for discussion: http://www.binaryrevelations.com/iftts/modules.php?name=Forums Below is a list of features and a brief introduction to how the application works. Game loading: When the app is started it will search a directory for games, the default is the directory where WinFrotzTTS is installed. You will probably never have to change this so when the app starts just hit return when it asks you to pick a directory to scan. After the app has scanned the directories looking for games it will present you with a list by telling you how many games it has found. At this point you can use the up and down arrow keys to move through the list of games and it will read the titles aloud. You can also hit the first letter of a title and it will skip to that letter in the list, the list is sorted alphabetically, so you would hit the letter z and it would skip ahead in the list to Zork 1 most likely. The arrow keys work well for the short list of Infocom games, but I have 326 games installed and it is easier to jump ahead to a letter if I know the game I want to play. After finding the game you want just hit return and it will load up. You can hit 'escape' to dismiss this dialog. If you click cancel the standard file dialog is presented. Games loaded using the standard dialog are not guaranteed to work with the extra text to speech functionality, so be warned. It will also ask you to type the title of the game so it can be added to the supported list of games. If this is a game you plan to play often it is a good idea to put the game in a folder under the main WinFrotzTTS application so it is found on every startup. Game saving: When you type save the app will tell you to type some text. This text is used to create a file name in the same directory that the current game is running from. Text entered in the dialog is spoken aloud as well as deleted characters. It also handles file overwriting. You can always hit 'escape' to dismiss the dialog. Game restoring: When you type 'restore' the same kind of dialog for game loading comes up. The app tells you it is going to search a certain directory for saved games. You simply hit return and the app scans the directory for saved games. It then presents you with a list of save game titles and the name of the game that they were saved from, and you can use the up and down arrow keys again to find the saved game you want and hit enter to load it. You can also delete a game by highlighting a game and hitting the delete key. The app will then confirm your deletion by asking you to hit 'Y' or 'N'. The app will tell you whether it was successful or not. Command line speech: Most speech in the game can be interrupted. For example when the app is telling you which directory it wants to scan you can just hit return instead of sitting through the whole speech. When the game list comes up you can browse from game to game with the arrow keys, as soon as you move to the next game in the list, the previous game title read aloud is cut off. This is all done to save time and cut out a lot of repetitious reading. This also works on the command line in the game.. For instance when you continue to move into the same room in the game and the app reads the description over and over again. Simply hitting the space bar will clear the speech. You can also use the up and down arrow keys on the command line of the game to scroll through commands you have already entered and it will read them aloud. Don't worry about extra spaces before and after words, the game just ignores them so use spaces to verify what you have typed even if it is just one word. When backspace is used the deleted character is read aloud. Read again: Sometimes you want to hear a room description read again and not waste a turn to hear it. This can be done by hitting CTRL R which will read the last bit of text saved since the last command typed. Word list spelling: Many times, games use words that are not easy to spell or are not really words at all. Some thing like Frobozz. You would not know how many 'z's are in the word. To help with this you can hit CTRL Z after a room description, and a word list will be presented to you. Using the up and down arrow keys you can move from word to word or use a character to skip to a word in the alphabetic list and the word will be spoken aloud. If you hit 'space bar' the word is spelled out loud. If you hit 'enter' while on a word, the dialog is closed and the word is added to the command line so you don't have to type it. If you know you are going to use the word a lot, you can hit 'insert' and the word will be added to a scratch list that I will describe later. You can always hit escape to dismiss the dialog. Scratch list: Sometimes you want to save typing or keep track of certain word. By using the 'insert' key in the word list, words can be added to the scratch list. hit CTRL X to bring up the list. This list can be navigated just like the word list. Arrow keys move between entries ( spoken aloud ), characters move to words alphabetically, 'enter' adds the word to the command line, and 'space bar' spells the entry. The only difference is that 'delete' removes the entry from the list. The nice thing about the scratch list is that it is saved between WinFrotzTTS uses, so the next time you play it is still there. Input processing: Text entered on the interpreter command line is processed and words are read aloud after a space is entered. Since the interpreter ignores spaces, before and after words it can be used to verify input or stop speech. This can be useful if you are in and out of the same room over and over again and don't want to sit through the same boring description; just hitting space will clear the speech buffer. Hitting the 'delete' key will read the last deleted character out loud. Using the up and down arrow keys will cycle though the command history and read aloud the commands. Hitting enter on the command line will read the whole entry aloud before the interpreter's response. Options: I have added an setting in the options dialog to disable speech is application dialogs for people with screen readers. As well as fixed the voice selection dropdown. Voices: Speech voices can be chosen by hitting CTRL+Y. This is the standard speech list dialog used throughout WinFrotzTTS. You can use insert to hear a voice and then hit enter to select it. Code update: I have updated the code base to David Kinder's 'Windows Frotz 2002 1.05'. Games support: In order to be able to have the interpreter recognize games despite their filenames, and since serial numbers don't seem to be a constant. I devised a fingerprinting system that identifies games. These numbers are read in from a simple XML file at interpreter startup and associates a file fingerprint with a game title. This makes it easier to add new games to the supported list and remove games that don't work and not have to make a new release. I will probably be making the tool for creating entries for this file available for people who want to add games to the list. At this time I have 328 games in the supported list. A caching system keeps this from bogging down application loading. You will see a performance slowdown when the first time the application is loaded and games are parsed. POST SCRIPT: I have done some things to modify the updated WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter, WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF W. SCOTT DILLMAN. This is replaceing the Microsoft Speech Engine. The AT&T's Natural Voices is also a SAPI 5 compliant speech engine. However, make note, there are some stipulations your PC **must have** in order to use this fantastic speech engine. Contact the makers of the AT&T's Natural Voices at http://www.nextup.com for further assistance. The E-mail with the link to the interpreter written by David Kinder is below::: The original version, without Scott's changes, is just called Windows Frotz 2002". You can get it here: http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/Window sFrotz2002.zip David Kinder Hello Beto, first I'd like to apologize for delay in respoding to your email, next time I'll respond in 24 hours on business days. Because there is many text adventures from Infocom/Activision on our site, probably the best option is to use our fulltext search: http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/search.php?s=infocom http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/search.php?s=activision Here are some deep links, however this list is not complete: http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/role_playing_games/ga mes_n_r/quarterstaff_tomb_of_setmoth.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_g_h/h itchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy_the.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_d/dea dline.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_p_r/p lundered_hearts.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_b/bey ond_zork_the_coconut_of_quendor.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_b/bal lyhoo.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_k_l/l eather_goddess_of_phobos_solid_gold_.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_k_l/l urking_horror_the.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_p_r/p lanetfall_solid_gold_.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_sa_so /seastalker.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_m_o/n ord_and_bert_couldn_t_make_head_or_tail_of_it.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_g_h/h ollywood_hijinx.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_sp_sw /spellbreaker.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_sp_sw /starcross.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_t_z/z ork_zero.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_t_z/z ork_quest_1_assault_on_egreth_castle.html http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_t_z/t ombs_and_treasure.html etc. For more games, please use our fulltext search as mentioned above. Is it only one game for that price, or are there more than one game in the Gold Seriesrice? We charge $4 or $6 fee for access to download section of our site. For $4 you'll able to download games without limitations for one day (24 hours), for $6 you'll be able to use our download service for 30 days. This period doesn't apply to playing the games, just for downloading. Would you encounter any probems, please don't hesitate to contact me. Regards, Ondrej Muncinsky http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/ Block quote start ----- Original Message ----- From: Beto Escobar III To: Ondrej Muncinsky Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:28 PM Subject: Would You Please... Hello Ondrej-- Hello, this is Beto (Bay toe) Escobar III, LMSW, and I am the guy who E-mailed you a question regarding the Solid Gold Series of the Infocom/Activision games. Let me try to give you a brief synopsis of why I am asking these types of questions. The deal is that I am totally blind, and use a program on my Gateway PC entitled JAWS. JAWS is a screen reader, and reads out the text to me on my PC monitor. The thing is, however, that it is only a text reader, and as a result, the games I play are solely text. As a result, the games I really enjoy playing are all of the old Infocom text Adventures. This is not too bad because I really enjoyed playing all of these games when I purchased them in the mid to late 80's when I **did** have my sight! Well, what I want to ask of you Ondrej is if you would not mind sending me another E-mail with all of the Infocom/Activision games you have on your website? Please? I am specifically asking for the deep links to the exact pages where the links are at to download. One more thing, the only reason I am doing this now is that a new friend of mine, W. Scott Dillmanm, who is a programmer, by profession, at IBM has updated an Interpreter to play on Window N.T., 2000, and XP environments! You see Ondrej, when I played these games in the 80's I had my sight, and the most beautiful IBM PC with an 8088 processor! Do you remember those days! Well, now that I am blind, I was unable to get any type of Interpreter to work with a screen reader like JAWS. My friend, however, took it upon himself to do something for a community of people which would bring them some joy at this date and time in their lives. I make this statement because I am blind, and I have enjoyed being in the beta team helping Scott fix, and refix, and re-refix , the WinFrotzTTS2002 Interpreter! I will ask the question one more time, but would you please put together an E-mail with "deep links" to all of the Infocom and Activision games you have on your website. Especially all of the Gold Series of games... Please send the E-mail to both me and Scott... I will put both E-mail addresses below... Beto Escobar III: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W. Scott Dillman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you my new friend, Beto Escobar III Block quote end -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cary Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: audyssey: Infocom's Stationfall GRRRRR. That is also what my walkthrough says. But I try to enter the coordinates of the time on my watch and I end up going to the middle of nowhere. Do I need to wait for a certain time on my watch? Help. I'd love to be able to play this game. -Cary ----- Original Message ----- From: shaun everiss To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 1:47 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Infocom's Stationfall Ok. Here is your clue. Look at your watch. its got the stuff you need. I have mislayed the actual file with all the numbers in it though so can't tell you. Due to a system dos crash and my switch over from if to audio games and testing I havn't fiddled around with if as of late. At some point i will irrect a server for the old dos games however for now. At 01:43 p.m. 9/01/2006, you wrote: >Hey guys. I obtained a copy of the Masterpieces of Infocom cd and it has >Stationfall on it, the sequel to Planetfall. Has anyone played this game? >If so, how do I get to the space station? It says in the walkthroughs I was >able to get online that you need to refer to some number in the instruction >manuals. Well I don't have the instruction manuals. If someone could help >me, I'd be most appreciative. >-Cary > > > >to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] >to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.15/223 - Release Date: 6/01/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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