Hi Everyone.
Just thought I’d make things easier for everyone looking for all the Infocom
interpreters we’ve discussed here. This zip file contains the entire contents
of the if-archive’s Infocom Interpreters folder, so while a lot of the files
here will probably not be relevant, all the inter
Hi Kimberly.
Well, since you dare to tread in our thread *smile*, why not take the
opportunity to grab my archive of Infocom goodies, they're text based games
which I'm sure both you and your little one will find engaging, challenging
not to mention educational and fun at the same time. I'm n
Hi Thomas.
If you would, that would be fantastic! I cant for love nor money get
anything out of the latest version of WinFrotz using JAWS 13 and Windows 7
64-bit, its completely inaccessible and the thought of using TTS voices
makes me cringe, I prefer to have complete flexibility when it com
Hey guys; How do I, or what do I have to, set up in the computer itself so
it will record is when I'm gaming? I seem to be able to only record things
through the external microphone- for example, if I plug in a microphone, and
then put microphone by the speakers, then it will record the game sounds
I wouldn't mind dosfrotz built for windows in fact i wouldn't mind
dos hugo built for windows console same with tads.
At 06:12 p.m. 20/11/2012 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
Agreed. I'm currently running Winfrotz on a Win 7 64-bit computer and
while the Sapi support is a bit patchy as you say its not b
same here, I havn't played in ages but I have never read package
contents, and wandered what things looked like where it said that
items I picked up were to be found in packages I didn't have.
At 10:32 p.m. 20/11/2012 +, you wrote:
Hi ibrahim. great, I'll appreciate the invisiclues and ind
I don't play if much but I'll get this just because it may be a good
thing to have.
At 06:51 p.m. 20/11/2012 +, you wrote:
Well I'll check ibrahim's archive, sinse it sounds like he's done a
complete job with it (it's downloading now).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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Hi Dark,
The exploration cross always starts out on your tula, yes. Agreed that some
kind of HTML manual would be helpful, though I personally find the iPhone
version useful because it is split into separate sections. If you want to
contact the developer, they are indeed still excepting feedback
Hi kimberly.
Playing if games is quite possible on a windows 7 machine, including the
infocom classics. you just need an interpreter such as winfrotz or filfre,
indeed I'd recommend winfrotz, and then open the files in that and read the
screen, it's really no more difficult than using a playe
Hi zack, good to know, i obviously missed those bits of the manual sinse
there is a lot of info to take in and as the pdf doesn't convert very well
I'm having to use the iphone version and thus can't do a propper search for
the info, indeed I would rather like an html manual so that I can have
Hi kimberly.
I can't answer on the xbox issue, but with pc games it depends upon what you
like. if you go to www.audiogames.net, you can use the "search archive" to
search the database by genre or by license, so tthat you can say have listed
all the sports games or all the action games.
Ther
Hi Dark,
The manual provides some insight on this topic, as it happens. Any less than
about seven goods or cows per sacrifice is seen as stingy, or at least unlikely
to work. Fourteen or larger is a safe minimum. Any less than 10 or 15 goods or
cows in gift giving is also stingy.
As for explora
Hi all...I have 2 requests...First, I am looking for XBox for my 7
year old son, and have NO idea what to look for as far as games or
accessories or even what price range I'm looking for...Since, y'all
seem to know so much about games, thought I'd ask you
first...Secondly, I am looking for games to
I know! I'm a dork because I'm excited by the prospect of reading the manuals.
Go figure.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:33 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Infocom Archive -
Hi zack.
I get that the map is large, and indeed I do have the advantage of seeing
which hexes are explored visually sinse the explored ones are coloured while
the rest is black. My main problem is actually finding the exploration
cross, usually I just double tap on a hex, but I have no idea w
Hi Laura.
winfrotz will work under windows 7 and play all the infocom games, so no
worries on that score, it's just winfrotz tts that won't sinse it was based
on the 2002 version of the program and hasn't been updated for years.
Ironically though the modern winfrotz actually has! sapi support
Hi ibrahim.
great, I'll appreciate the invisiclues and indeed the manuals sinse I've
never read those before.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Infoco
Hi Dark,
Glad to know things are improving a little bit. I'll answer your questions as
best I can, although some of them are easier to answer than others. :)
The thing to understand about exploration is that the map is large, large
enough to require scrolling to see it all. It is, more or less, t
Hi.
There are a couple of choices. I personally use the Filfre interpreter
however that does have a major floor the author is currently aware of and
working on where in games that exit abruptly when completed or when you are
killed don't output their text to the screen, the interpreter simply
Hi all,
Is it possible for someone to write me off list and help me a little with
forums? I want to get on the audiogames forum concerning the audio game
tactical battles but my attempts seemed to be in vain. If there was a search
function for the forum, I either missed it or couldn't find it, a
OK, it looks like I got it to work after all.
Ibrahim, are there interpreters that work well with JAWS under Windows 7? Last
I heard, there weren't any good ones, so I'm curious.
Thanks.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukogl
Sadly, I received an error 404 when I tried this link. I know it worked
for others, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
Thanks.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of john
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:50 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject:
Hi Dark.
You'll find invisiclues in various formats in the archive as well as
complete manuals, box shots, scans of the bonus materials and feelies
included in each game and loads of stuff besides.
All the best,Ibrahim.
-Original Message-
From: dark
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Well I'll check ibrahim's archive, sinse it sounds like he's done a complete
job with it (it's downloading now).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: "john"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Infocom Archive - n
I've heard you mention this game adventure before Bryan, though that wasn't
one I ever played.
it is amazing though how you don't need a hyper complex rpg system to make a
good game work, look at eamon, or indeed board games like talisman as
examples.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
- Original M
I've got a few of the clues myself lying around somewhere, and I
can send them to you if needed. I've not got nearly everything
though, and I tend to have more walkthroughs than anything.
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From: "dark" I got the infocom games from http://if.illuminion.de/index.html
Me, I'd love to see an audio version of Adventure. Tha was a simple game but
it was the forefather ofmost Action RPG's. And on higher difficulty levels
you had that darn bat to contend with as well as finding the keys, sword and
dragons.
To shave-a da face,
to cut-a da hair
require-a grace
r
It still sounded better than Hydlide. Tat game had the worst story, gameplay
and controls I'd ever encountered. And don't get me started on the music.
To shave-a da face,
to cut-a da hair
require-a grace
require da flair.
For if-a you slip
you nick da skin.
You clip-a da chin.
You rip-a da lip
thanks ibrahim, I shal have a look.
if you've got the invisiclues I'd be really pleased to see those.
I got the infocom games from http://if.illuminion.de/index.html but while I
really liked the writing and exploring, i often got stuck with the less than
logical puzzles and guess the verb sit
when I played the millenipede remake, I was quite amazed at the challenge
of the thing for a game that didn't play at an uba fast pace, for instance
lining up to slay those spiders, that's another reason why i think an audio
remake could be interesting, sinse unlike remaking say space invaders
I don't know the full history of bubble bobble, but I know it was the
generation of games along with super mario which had a rather cutesy theme,
but rock solid design and gameplay.
Rainbow islands was probably my least favourite of the original games, but
parasol stars I had great fun with, p
well things are improving slightly, I have a humacti on my
ring who is just
plane awsome! with renowned combat and lots of clout,
and he virtually
single handedly routed the trolls in a skirmish. thanks to a
couple of good
omens, and I even persuaded the herani to be friends.
I did however ma
Hi Bryan,
Yeah, I think I tried Rainbow Islands once for the NES, but at the
time I thought it was too childish. Back then I was into beat-m-ups
and fighting games like Legend of Kage, Double Dragon, G.I. Joe, Ninja
Turtles, etc so something like Rainbow Islands was put down to being
for babies or
Hi tom.
Fair enough on the muffling issue, however my concern with a targiting beep
is that A, it'd make the game too easy, and b, it would simply mean people
just lined up a shot, and if they got no beep, got irritated, rather than
having to actually try and shoot mushrooms out of the milli
Fair eough tom, and that is true about mota, but I would be concerned at
both people's opinions with a starwars game and your own knolidge of the
films, sinse I think you'd need to really stick to your guns on design in
that one (pun intended), though I admit with the original music and sfx
rat
I'd heard of the NES version of Rainbow Islands.
To shave-a da face,
to cut-a da hair
require-a grace
require da flair.
For if-a you slip
you nick da skin.
You clip-a da chin.
You rip-a da lip
a bit beyond-a repair.
-Original Message-
From: dark
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:43 A
Hi Dark,,
Hmmm...Interesting ideas although I don't know about muffling the
millipedes when they are behind a mushroom. Only certain audio
libraries allow a developer to use a low pass filter to muffle sounds
which is a bit problematic for me. I've been working on an
experimental cross-platform en
Hi Dark,
Yeah, that sounds like it. Basically, the game was suppose to look
like you were in a cockpit of an x-wing with tie fighters attacking
from the left, right, and straight ahead. You lined them up in your
crosshairs and blew them away. On the final level the Death Star would
appear and you
Millipeed would be interesting tom, maybe having the millipeeds make a
continuous sound as they zig zagged around from left to right getting
closer, which changed according to whether a shroom was in the way, say by
becoming muffled would work, or maybe having the shrooms represented by a
bli
Hi Everyone.
Really sorry about this, am now reuploading the file to Dropbox and will
share the link with you when I'm done.
All the best, Ibrahim.
-Original Message-
From: dark
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:38 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Its here! my
Hi,
HmmmI don't believe I ever personally played Bubble Bobble
myself.Although, I saw others playing it at the arcade. Just never
seemed like a game that drew my attention enough to waste a few
quarters on it. :D
As for Millipede I suppose an audio version is possible, but I'd have
to think h
Hi ibrahim.
I'm afraid i'm having the same problem. I go to the page, and clicking on
either the file name or on download prompts me to sign in or create an
account on this skydrive thingy. Is there a way to download without creating
an account? i'm afraid I'm a little wary of creating an a
But I don't have a Micro-soft account, so what now?
Fred Olver
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From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:05 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Its here! my Infocom archive for you all
Hi Everyone.
OK, for all you Interactive
Hi Ibrahim
I tried downloading your archive first with IE and then FireFox but was
unable to.
The link didn't work.
It took me to a page where I would have to register with Microsoft for an
account and I don't want to do that.
Phil
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From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu"
To
Hi Everyone.
OK, for all you Interactive Fiction nerds and for those of you who mightn’t
have played an IF title before, I’m delighted to enclose my Infocom collection,
a file containing over 500 megabytes of goodies including manuals, maps, hints,
solutions and other miscelanious files, back i
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