Hi Jewel, In order to play the ZCode games by Infocom etc you will need a Windows interpreter like Winfrotz which is a separate download to play them.
Cheers! On 11/26/12, Jewel <jewelbla...@kinect.co.nz> wrote: > Ibrahim! I downloaded the Infocom collection that you sent to the list > recently, have read the > beginners' guide, and I recognise many of the commands from my Colossal Cave > days, and even the > suggestion of drawing a map of the location of rooms and routes was > familiar. > Obviously, that was written for sighted players. Has any totally-blind one > found a way of doing the > same? > The "colossal Cave" is the only infocom game I have played and that was in > the days before I had > access to the internet so I used a floppy disk. > I would like to have a crack at the ones you made available, but how do you > start them? I thought > that there would be an executable file, but there isn't. > Is the winfrotz a separate program that I have to download? When I try to > open the files that are > marked with a z, the computer tells me that it can't open them as it has to > know in what program > they were created: do I want it to go on-line to get the appropriate > software? I don't know what > to tell it. > > Jewel > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
