Re: Taipan...

[Andre Kostur <Andre@incognito.com>]

wild_dj@mit.edu (D. Jacob Wildstrom) wrote in news:3cccf222$0$3935$b45e6eb0
@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu:

> 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!

You can also get a version of Taipan for the PalmOS....