The first sort of scene rings bells from the original - for me anyway, and
haven't gone on too long after getting sort of stuck with finding the ring,
and some water - one day.
Stay well
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
Hi Jacob.
Actually, I've checked and that hobbit game was written in 2005. The
author does make it clear he's not recopying the original but trying his
own work.
It actually sounds interesting, though unfortunately I haven't got too far
yet.
Beware the greu!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Kruger" <jac...@mailzone.co.za>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
Makes sense, and no worries.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old 1982 text adventure of The Hobbit for DOS
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" <jac...@mailzone.co.za>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
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" <anou...@home.nl>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
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" <d...@xgam.org>
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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" <jac...@mailzone.co.za>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
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" <englishride...@gmail.com>
To: <gamers@audyssey.org>
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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