Hello Ac. the wishbringer game file you need is called Wishbring.dat. As I said to Missy, set the drop down file types box in Win frotz to "infocom files dat, zip" and then open the wishbring.dat file.
the other files in the wishbringer folder such as Wishbring.sti, Nancy and Go are old files which I'm guessing were needede to run the game in it's original form on old Doss machines. win Frotz doesn't need them though, just the wishbring.dat file, which contains the game itself, so you can just delete the others if you like. Hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:46 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Fw: Re: WishBringer text based adventure game > Hi Tom and Dark, > I tried opening the Wishbringer file with WinFrotz, but I couldn't. I got > the following message > > WinFrotz Error > graphic 287 Fatal: Unknown Z-code version > OK > > Is there something wrong with my version? I am using WinFrotzR53. > I have the understanding that I should be able to open and play games > with the ZIP extension on it. Is this assumption correct? I found another > version of WinFrotz from the Wikipedia site by searching for it and going > to the interpreters for various platform link provided there. It's > labeled Windows Frotz 2002. It seems that it was last updated on Aug 10, > 2007. Should I try it? . > Thanks in advance, > 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] > > > --- > 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]
