On 15 Feb 2011, at 03:13, Jasmine Kotsay wrote:
> Thanks! When you say Interactive Fiction, where do you find those ones?
Games, on the main menu of the BrailleNote. The manual has a (fairly shaky,
but adequate) description of Interactive Fiction ("Text adventures"), under
Games.
Incredibly, now that I'm not on Windows anymore, I use my BrailleNote as my
primary IF-playing device, because it's specialised, and with the exception of
some silly limitations, fairly good at it compared to everything else I have.
Back on the Classic it was near-exceptional, but nowadays it's so-so. If you
have an Apple iOS-powered device, the app in the store you want is called Frotz
(named after a magical spell in a classic Infocom game series).
Insider information for the technical people: you can see the jzip compile-time
options by running the verify opcode in any game; for those compiled by Inform,
that's the command "verify", whereas in Infocom story files it's "$verify".
After suspecting HW of having nicked it for their product, owing to some highly
jzip-specific implementation bugs, I used this to check, and that is how the
copyright information found its way into KeySoft. At the time it was
presented, the presenter thought it was Frotz. Also, be aware that jzip-format
save files cannot be shared with other systems, as they are chip specific.
Jzip has support for Quetzal, a universal save file format - but when I asked
HW, they said it had complications, and told me to use jzip on my other
systems. Thank you, no. And if they did support Quetzal, they'd have to
support Dropbox as well, to be totally perfect. (I'll share a link if anybody
wants a new account, extra space for both of us.)
Cheers,
Sabahattin
PS: in writing this post, I notice that the TTS improvements also include not
expanding abbreviations such as "Inc." or "Oct". Why, HW? Why do you DO THIS?
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