Hi Missy, Tom, Dark and list, (I almost wrote tom, Dick, and Harry. smile) I have tried to get the first and last links to work with little luck. However, I have been able to go to the main page by removing the last part of the web addresses you have provided. ( such as removing the index.html extensions) I found the Window Frotz text to speech interpreter at the following web address:
http://www.whitestick.co.uk/download.html After a few more tries, I was able to get the first website to come up. I got the Wishbringer file with a few others. I already have the Winfrotz standard interpreter from a while ago. I have a few questions about game adventure file types. I have a few game files with some extensions I am not familiar with such as .rar, .taf, and .dsk.Are these valid file types? If so, which interpreters would I need to play them? I scanned them for viruses and none were found for safety purposes. Thanks for your assistance and patience. AC --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Missy Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:57:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Re: WishBringer text based adventure game Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Missy, the z5 extention is not an archive but the games actual extention. The Infocom text adventures usually have a z5, z8, ZIP, or DAT extention. I know it seams strange seeing a game with ZIP extention,but that convention was chosen by Infocom long before pkzip, winzip, izarc, etc came along and used it for their archives. Anyway, just copy the z5, dat, and zip files to your Winfrots directory, and run Winfrots, and it should locate the files. Missy Hoppe wrote: > 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] Hi Ac. If I remember rightly, Wishbringer is one of the enchanter games in the Zork series from infocom, the same that featured my ravenous friend, the Grue! You can find all of the infocom games at http://if.illuminion.de/index.html To play them in windows, all you need is the Win frotz interpretter, (which will also let you play lots of other text adventure games written in Zcode format). there are lots of places to get Win Frotz. If you want the standard Win frotz that you'll need to use a screen reader to use, I suggest http://www.microheaven.com/IFGuide/IFGuide.pl?step=6&c=0 which also provides a nice selection of If games for you to try out. for a more complete site on if, try http://www.wurb.com/if/ If on the other hand you'd prefer the win frotz tts that outputs directly to ms sapi, you can get it from http://www.whitestick.co.uk/text.html I hope all this is of some use to you. Beware the Grue! (particularly if you are venturing Zorkwards), Dark. For ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:57 PM Subject: [Audyssey] WishBringer text based adventure game > Hi list, > It's AC. I am wondering if anyone knows where I might be able to get a > copy of the Text adventure "WishBringer"? It's the game where you start > off at the top of a hill I believe and travel around the town with a > magic stone, which you have to get out of a can. I believe you get 3 > wishes from it. It was the first adventure game I ever played back in the > 80s. Can I play it using Windows XP Home Edition SP2? > I will appreciate any help/guidance. > Thanks, > AC > > --- > 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. 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