In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If we had Frotz, it would be simple to package up a large(ish) number >> of the games available. > > Just so you know, I've already packaged up an Infocom parser (called > "infocom") package. Yes, but it's crap. There are several better ones around which should be packaged for debian. We need a virtual package name, infocom-interpreter perhaps. > None of the Infocom games can be distributed, however. You have to > buy them. None of the ones by infocom can be distributed. There are lots of infocom-format games by other people, mostly produced by the inform compiler. In general the source code is not available (because that would make the games too easy :) so as Charles said, they would have to be in contrib.