Hi Charles: You can certainly play several text adventure games on Windows 8.1. If you have Winfrotz you can play pretty much every game written in Inform and ZCode that was ever written with your screen reader or Sapi speech output. If you have Agility for Windows you can play old text adventures written in AGT, and Tads32 will allow you to play various games written in Tads. So when it comes to text adventures you can pretty much play everything available for XP accept for those Dos games compiled for 16-bit systems such as Eamon Deluxe.
As for Jim Kitchen's games I have gotten them to work on Windows 8.1 as well. I admit it takes a bit of fiddling to get them to work, but it can certainly be done. What I do is install the Winkit file to get the Visual Basic 6 runtime libraries installed, and then I install his games to a directory like c:\Users\Thomas\Kitchensinc where they will work without having issues with User Account Control. As long as you know how to set up the Kitchen's Inc. games you won't have a problem with them. I haven't tried Ten Pin Alley, but I have tried Lone Wolf 3.5 on Windows 8.1 and it works alright. Again, it just basically requires you install the proper libraries and make sure it is in a local directory rather than in c:\Program Files or c:\Program Files (x86). As to the issue of upgrading I have repeatedly gave reasons why I think people should upgrade. I'm not going to repeat it here as I'd just be wasting both my time and energy rewriting what I have said. All I will say in response is since those games can still be played your excuse not to upgrade is not valid based on compatibility alone. Cheers! On 12/24/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: > I would not upgrade to get better voices than those I already have, which > are good enough. Nobody in their right mind would use Microsoft Sam unless > > they absolutely had to, so that's a very poor comparison. I would not use > Narrator unless I had to, either, but I would not upgrade from a platform > with which I can access all of my previously purchased software to one with > > which I cannot, just for a better Narrator. > > Can I play text adventure games using Windows 8.1? How about Lone Wolf and > > Tenpin Alley? Jim Kitchen's games? If these cannot be played, why upgrade? > > I cannot see spending more money to get less access. > > --- > Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, > > you! really! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
