Re: Adventure Games on IIgs

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

June 10, 1998

More information on those great games Rubywand has made available follows!
All of the ShrinkIt GS archives can also be found and downloaded from
the following ftp site URL:

ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu//2/apple2/apple16/Games/InfocomTypeGames/


Special Thanks to Jeff Hurlburt for the conversion efforts and especially for
the
archive upload efforts! 

Email: rubywand@swbell.net

Cheers,
Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley
Editor - GS WorldView

An edited portion from the archives index by Jeff follows.
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Infocom-type Games

This folder contains games in Infocom Z-Machine format which  can be played
with
the Big Red Computer Club Lost2.sys16 Infocom game interpreter originally
included in Activision's IIgs version of The Lost Treasures of Infocom.

The games were created by many different authors. Quite a few were entries for
the annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Others, such as the three versions
of
The Adventure (or "The Colossal Cave") and Scott Adams Adventures, are
transformations to Z-Machine form. None is an actual Infocom release.

In order to produce this Apple IIgs collection, the games were downloaded to PC
from gmd.de and transferred to GS via NULL-modem. Any .zip files were unZipped
using PMPunZip.

Next, the file Type and Auxtype for each game file was changed to $F5 and $8005
respectively. The one exception is MinZork, which is a Z3 game and has an
Auxtype
of $8003.

The BRCC interpreter, Lost2.sys16 was started and each game was tried. Nearly
all
of the games seemed to work as expected. Those few which did not are not
included
in this collection.

A few games and groups of games (like the folder of Scott Adams Adventures)
came
with Text file information files. These were converted to Apple II format.

Finally, each game or folder was converted to .shk form. This preserves file
Type
and Auxtype information.

To play the games, download the interpreter, Lost2sys16.shk and games you wish
to
try. Move the files to your GS and unShrink via GS-ShrinkIt ("GSHK").  Start
Lost2.sys16 and select a game.


     Most of the game descriptions included with the archives on the Ground ftp
site,
     
     URL noted above, came from ...

http://www.truespectra.com/~svanegmo/if-archive/
if-archiveXgamesXinfocom.html  and

ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Index .

A few notes have been tacked on based upon IIgs tryouts.


Thanks to Dean Cyberon, the Big Red Computer Club, Activision, the game
authors,
Z-machine translators, and interactive fiction archive sites for making this
collection possible. The 100+ games here should be good for many entertaining,
challenging hours on our IIgs's.

     Have fun!

Jeff Hurlburt, June 7, 1998
rubywand@swbell.net