No trouble missy, I admit the hole business of Zcode games gets rather complicated.
when you open win frotz, if you go to the "files of type" list you'll notice it has a couple of types available. Z code is the most common type for text adventure games, ---- and the file extentions will be Z5 or Z8 (occasionally other numbers as well, but most commonly z5 or Z8). you can just open these in win frotz, no extracting or anything else necessary. the other type of games Win frotz deals with are the old infocom games, ---- often with a file extention of dat (not anything to do with the dat data files some programs use). wishbringer for instance, is one of those. You might also come across some infocom games with a file extention of zip, ---- this is very confusing, as they aren't compressed files, it was just the name of the file format used at the time (the games were written a long time before the hole zipping thing came about), the highly fun King arthur game is one of these. When you start Win frotz, just set the "files of type" list box to either "Z code files Z, blb" or "infocom files dat, zip), depending upon what sort of file it is, and then open the file. Hth. Beware the Grue! (who's unpleasant nature you are just about to discover, hehehehe!), Dark. because the infocom games are old doss programs, you'll often find a lot of extra files with them to do with running in doss, but the only files you'll need to play the games are either the Z5 or Z8 files, or the Dat or zip files, so you can delete all the rest. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Hoppe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Re: WishBringer text based adventure game > Hi! I went to the sites mentioned earlier in this thread and downloaded > all > of the infocom games. However, I'm not sure how to go about setting them > up > to play with this winfrots thing. A lot of the games had a .z5 extention, > so I'm not even sure how to go about extracting those. Any assistance > would > be extremely appreciated. > Missy > > > --- > 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] --- 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]
