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Article #43589Re: Best Text Game...
From: sysop
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 16:55
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 16:55
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there is already a Infocom interpeter program ported to OSK (maybe even
will run on a CoCo, OSK exe is only 46K) All you need to do is get the
datafiles for the game you want to play. The datafiles are the same for
ALL platforms that the games run on, so you could get the IBM version,
and just pull the data off oand put it on your OSK box, and it would work.
The CoCo versijuon of HitchHikers Huide was weird thouygh, the data was
written diretly to the RSDOS disk, in raw mode, so it took some tricks
to extract it to a file.
Infocom sells a package that contains all their "Clasic" text edventure
(I think it is called Treasures of Infocom, or something like that) I don't
know what the price of it is. One of theses days, I'll have to stop by
a softwarfe store and look it up, and get it for myself if the price
is right...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110568,542478503ce5026b X-Google-Attributes: gid110568,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-11-24 13:42:41 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!auvm!SANDV.CHI.IL.US!sysop Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.coco Return-Path: <@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU:COCO@PUCC.BITNET> Message-ID: <9311241055.AA00597@sandv.chi.il.us> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 10:55:09 CST Reply-To: sysop@sandv.chi.il.us Sender: COCO - Tandy Color Computer List <COCO@PUCC.BITNET> From: sysop@SANDV.CHI.IL.US Subject: Re: Best Text Game... Lines: 19