Subj : Re: Infocom games user display issues...
To : Android8675
From : Shane O'Neill
Date : Thu May 16 2019 01:34 pm
An> I found a program called Waffle Infocom that I run on synchronet, but it
An> only works with Z3 files (first 20 or so, published Infocom games), so
An> anything v.Z4 and above won't work.
Cool, I will give that a try, maybe some of the old infocoms that are not
displaying like Nord and Bert might with Waffle Infocom!
An> An interpreter like Frotz might help you out if you can get it to work.
An> For some reason I could never get the Windows version to work with
An> Netfoss. I've heard Frotz will work just dandy under Linux with BBSs,
An> but I haven't tried it yet.
Yeah I too played with Frotz, no luck for me either again being in Windows.
Like you said I read folks in Linux have luck with it though.
An> Lots of people have suggested finding a Python Interpreter like Viola!
An> (
https://intfiction.org/t/viola-a-z-machine-in-python/6844) and
An> converting it for use with Mystic, but that's beyond my abilities.
You and I both! But might be enough to open my mind and dust off the old
programmer in me and see what can be done. I say that like I have time and
patients! LOL
Thanks for the reply I will explore your suggestion of Waffle for sure!!!!
S.
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