Re: Taipan...

[wild_dj@mit.edu (D. Jacob Wildstrom)]

In article <ec3b09ad.0204282001.48f0d95a@posting.google.com>,
Section8design <sturmell@hotmail.com> wrote:
>What a flashback! Thanks for bringing that game up. I remember playing
>that game for hours waiting for those ships to blink and then fall.
>HA! You just made my night. Sorry, I have no info for you, but dang,
>that brings back memories.

Cheap plug here, but...

I've just recently uploaded the first release of a more-or-less
faithful port of Taipan to the Z-Machine (the virtual machine
pioneered by Infocom, still one of the major platforms of the
interactive fiction community).

You can grab a copy of it from
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/taipan.z5
and an interpreter from somewhere in
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/interpreters-infocom-zcode

Happy smuggling!

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