Games, esp. Infocom games (Re: Wanted! Several IIgs and //e games...)

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <94270.16273934II5MT@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>,
John Goggan  <34II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> wrote:
>I am looking for the following software (originals only, manuals and
>boxes great, but not necessary):
>
>...for the IIgs:
> - Xenocide
> - Alien Mind

	Doesn't BRCC still have these?


>...for the //e:
> - Various Infocom games, including:
>    - Planetfall
>    - Stationfall
>    - Zork I
>    - Zork II
>    - Zork III
>    - Possibly other text-only Infocoms...

	You can definitely get "Lost Treasures of Infocom I" from BRCC, 
but it's a GS program...  If you have other 8 bit Apple II Infocom games,
you can use InfoSnarf to remove the interpreter and use it with other
Infocom games with the same version number.. (I'll go into this in more
detail in e-mail if anyone wants..)

	You can also use the data files from LTOI (either GS or non-GS version)
and LTOI II with one of the freeware Zcode interpreters...  ZIP and 
InfoTaskForce are the two major ones.. In fact, BRCC's Zcode interpreter is
InfoTaskForce hacked up..  I've ported ZIP and have been "mostly done" for
a long time, and so has Bob Claney (claney@iastate.edu)... One of us will
hopefully soon make our interpreter widely available (each works better in
some ways, and we've been talking of consolidating the better parts of each).

	There are also third party freeware games that can be used with the
same interpreters... They can be found on ftp.gmd.de.  "curses" and "balances"
are two that I can think of offhand..  check out rec.art.int-fiction and
rec.games.int-fiction for more info.

	Anyhow, you can find the LTOI II CD for around $20-30, and LTOI I is
about $50 from BRCC, or less if you get the Mac or IBM versions and use the 
datafiles.. (unfortunate, yes.... but I got BRCC's just to support their 
efforts)
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