Hi Jacob
I'm afraid you must have got a line crossed somewhere reguarding infocom and
zcode.
The z code format was indeed originaly developed by infocom to run their
games like zork and hichhikers' guide, ---- actually made to run games on
multiple platforms with a virual z machine, but infocom have been out of
business now for around 20 years, and the z code format is pretty much
public domain.
the vast majority, ---- hundreds in all, of z code games have nothing to do
with infocom at all anymore, though it is stil possible to run games like
zork quite well on any modern machine that can read zcode games.
Thus, when myself and others mentioned not hereing of an infocom version of
the hobbit, we meant a version of the hobbit published by the original
infocom company back in the 80's, rather than just a hobbit game run in
zcode.
Whether the game you have is a zcode port of the original, or another game
based on the hobbit written by someone else in zcode, I'm not sure.
Hope this clears the confusion up slightly.
Beware the grue!
dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Kruger" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
I meant (and might still be misunderstanding) that it's the infocom
format - *.z5?
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anouk Radix" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
Hi, well I just dled the hobbit and loaded it into filfre. Its not by the
infocom company though. That does not say that it cant be fun but just
saying.
Greetings, Anouk,
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
cool Jacob, I didn't know there was an infocom hobbit (and I thought I
had all the infocom games.
I'll have to try that one myself.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Kruger" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
Here's a download link for the infocom version of it that works well
enough in winfrotz:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13327195/hobbit.z5
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arianna Sepulveda" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:22 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody knew how I could get my hands on the old
1982 text adventure of The Hobbit? It ran on the C64 on a cassette
tape or floppy disk (not sure if that was a 5 In. or a 3.5 In.), but
if anyone knows where I could get this, it would be awesome! Also, how
the heck would I make it run? Lol.
Thanks in advance,
Ari
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