Re: Infocom Adventures: Was there a sequal to "Lost Treasures"?

[markm@klondike.winternet.com (Mark Miller)]

In article <4crta8$j2r@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
Jeffrey Robertson <jeffr@bnr.ca> wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I recently received "The Lost Treasures of Infocom" for the
>Apple IIgs.  It contains two game interpreters, and data files
>for some twenty-five adventures.  (Each game has a single file.)

Ahh, yes.. love those Infocom games.  :)

>Have any other games been released in this fashion?  Has anyone
>reversed-engineered other games into such data files?
>For example, I bought "Bureaucracy" on 5.25" and would like to
>get a data file that I can install on my hard drive.

Yes, there is a LTOI II which has about 12 additional Infocom
games, but it is only available in IBM and Mac formats.  However,
that does not entirely rule out the ability to play those games on
the GS.  A back issue of GS+ contains some very useful info on how
to convert the IBM version of LTOI II to a GS compatible version.
It's actually quite simple and only requires the ability of your GS
to read MS-DOS disks (1.44M).

>On a related note, this package didn't include any nice icons
>for these datafiles (or the interpreter applications).  I whipped
>up some pretty boring ones, but I was wondering if anyone with
>artistic skills had created any.

Yeah, that's annoying, I agree.  One of these days I'll get around
to making some, too. 

If you have any questions or comments, let me know.

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