Hi,
Sure I can do that. I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 on my computer so
will need to install scare, frob, frotz, etc but that shouldn't take
long. I'll let you know.
Just curious, but why aren't you running the Gnome desktop? These days
the recent versions of Gnome and Orca work quite
Hi,
For ZMachine games, I use an interpreter called Filfre. While you have to
use your screen reader's review cursor, such as the JAWS cursor, to read the
text, it works considerably better than Winfrotz. I used to use the TTS
version of that program, but after trying Filfre, I immediately
I've tried to use Frotz with gnome and orca under linux. THe only
problem is the entire screen changes or refreshes so that after a
command I hear the entire screen read back to me, including past moves
and score. There's probably some config option nestled deep within
the .frotzrc which I
Hi Tom,
I suppose the best reason I can give for not switching to Gnome is that
I find the command line quite powerful enough. I have Emacspeak
installed on this machine, which lets me send email, read Usenet news,
etc. Speakup lets me play all the linux compatible games I want.
edbrowse and
well tom I still like the shell then load extra stuff on it.
my distros I like are the grml, and arch-linux, these are just straight out
shells.
you install extra stuff on those if you wish.
that way you probably can start with just shell and not worry about things.
Though, for now at least
Hi Josh,
Well, on the Linux side Orca doesn't always work perfectly with the
interpreters, but something like yasr or brailletty can handle them just
fine. For z machine style games the classic frotz works well. If you are
looking for a Linux adrift interpreter I recommend a program called
Hi,
Yeah, that was my experience as well. Although I know there has been
some improvements with terminal applications with Orca. I suppose it
might be handy if one of us try frotz, frobtads, or scare out with a
recent build of Orca and see if anything has improved on that end.
Zachary Kline
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www.michaelfeir.blogspot.com
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To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:33 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Windows/Linux Interactive Fiction
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- Original Message - From: Draconis Entertainment gene...@draconisentertainment.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:33 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Windows/Linux Interactive Fiction
Hi. In Linux I'm using frotz and/or zfrob (name not sure) for zcode
machine games and frob for tads games. I'm using scare for Adrift games
as well.
Hope this helps.
Draconis Entertainment wrote the following on 3/5/2009 12:33 AM:
Hey all,
What interactive fiction interpretors are you
Hi,
It sounds that way to me too. I don't mind using frob, scare, etc on
linux for if games, but it is a bit of a drag switching screen readers
just to play games. On Windows the winfrotz project has totally gone
down hill, and the tts version isn't perfect. So it sounds like Zoom for
you Mac
HiTom,
It'd have to be you I'm afraid. I don't have Gnome on this machine,
truth be told, and don't plan on getting it.
I'm curious to know what you find, if anything.
Best,
Zack.
Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com writes:
Hi,
Yeah, that was my experience as well. Although I know there has
: [Audyssey] Windows/Linux Interactive Fiction Interpretors
Hey all,
What interactive fiction interpretors are you WIndows and Linux users using
these days? For Linux, we're talking something that works well with Orca.
With Windows, something that just works well. Something that works well
Hey all,
What interactive fiction interpretors are you WIndows and Linux users
using these days? For Linux, we're talking something that works well
with Orca. With Windows, something that just works well. Something
that works well with ZMachine games and their derived formats, like
Hi there,
I'm a Linux user myself, and can tell you that as far as I know, Orca is
out of luck IF-wise.
That being said, I do like good old Frotz for the Z-machine, and Glulxe
or Git when compiled with ncurses support for Glulx. Frobtads works
wonderfully for Tads 2 an 3 games.
I am using
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Hey all,
What interactive fiction interpretors are you WIndows and Linux users
using these days? For Linux, we're talking something that works well
with Orca
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