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Re: Looking for text based games. :)

mftodd@earthlink.net writes ...
> 
> Hi all. I'm looking for any text based games out there. I'm a blind guy who
> like the old Apple 2 text based games. :) If anyone has any for sale please
> let me know
 ....


     You can find several neat Apple II Text adventures on the Ground archive
at ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple8/Games/ .

     The TextAdventures1 disk has nine adventures:

ADVENTURE CAVES
SWORDS & SORCERY
PIRATE'S TREASURE HUNT
NEPTUNE'S CAVERNS
MARS
INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU
ADVENTURE WITHIN THE EARTH
JEWEL QUEST V2
LOST DUTCHMAN V211


     TextAdventures1 is available as an .sdk ShrinkIt disk archive and as a
standard .dsk disk image. The files are named 

File: TextAdventures1_sdk.zip
File: TextAdventures1_dsk.zip


     After downloading a file, unzip the file using WinZIP or an equivalent
utility.

TextAdventures1_sdk.zip unzips to TEXTADV1.SDK, a ShrinkIt 
compressed disk archive. On your Apple II, Use ShrinkIt v3.4 to 
unshrink TEXTADV1.SDK to a 5.25" diskette.

TextAdventures1_dsk.zip unzips to TEXTADV1.DSK, a standard disk 
image which may be used as a virtual disk with Apple II emulators
such as AppleWin. (On a real Apple II, the image may be converted
to diskette via DSK2FILE or ASIMOV.) 

     For info on using/converting most kinds of files used for Apple II
software on the net, see http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html .


     You can find several Text adventures in GS WorldView's archive. The URL
for games is http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Games/ .

     Some games you can find there are ...

Cranston Manor in file CranstonManor.zip 
Cyborg in file  Cyborg.zip
Dragons Eye in file DragonsEye.zip  .

     For info about piles of Infocom and other Text adventures you can run on a
IIgs, see http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Sel/InfocomTypeGames.htm .


     A good place to find many games is Asimov. The URL for most of the games
on Asimov is ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/ .

     The file-based folder has disks with several games on each.

     The software on Asimov is usually on .dsk disk image files which are
g-zipped to conserve space. For info about using these files see
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html#008



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