Re: [Audyssey] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hi, Infocom still holds the copyright to this game, and as far as I am aware, it was never released as freeware by the company (unlike the zork games). I believe piracy and/or warez is against list policy. Your best bet is to track down a copy of _legends of infocom_; afaik the game is

[Audyssey] Interactive Fiction Compitition Reminder

Hi, For those of you who still enjoy Interactive Fiction, aka text adventures, just a quick note to let you know that the Interactive Fiction Compitition started yesterday. What better excuse to play and vote on over 20 free accessible text adventures? You can find all the information

[Audyssey] [Fwd: Zroft 0.1 - a new Frotz for Pocket PCs (based on Frostz)]

A while ago, we were having discussions on this list about playing infocom and other z-machine games on the pocket pc; I thought some of you might be interested in this. Original Message Subject: Zroft 0.1 - a new Frotz for Pocket PCs (based on Frostz) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007

Re: [Audyssey] Trivia time #1

The lions. Not having eaten for 3 years, they all died. Richard Sherman wrote: Hi, I have 3 new trivia questions to post and see if you can figur them out. I will post them one at a time. Here is question 1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first

Re: [Audyssey] Blind Game Authoring Tool (Not Audio Game Maker)

. Unfortunately, I'd like to require one download at minumum (making my own system would be best). I might make an add-on for that though. From: fastfinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject

Re: [Audyssey] interactive fiction games

Hi, Try: http://wurb.com/if/platform/1 It has a list of all games for the platform, with downloads and reviews of the games. Josh wrote: Hi, My wife whose email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants to know where she can get text adventure games for the winfrotz program at. Apparently she

Re: [Audyssey] winfrotz games help

The game the poster is having problems with is at: http://wurb.com/if/game/2913 It's an extremely knew game, just released last year. If she's stuck on the opening sequence, a hint: have you tried going down (typing down or d)? When you do, what does the character want to do? Have you tried

Re: [Audyssey] ZCode games

Hi, All of the manuals and tools are available free from: http://www.inform-fiction.org However, the IDE of inform7 is somewhat complicated; you will need to be familiar with your screen reader to get anywhere with it. Josh wrote: Hi, Is it difficult to make ZCode games for winfrotz? How

Re: [Audyssey] Blind Game Authoring Tool (Not Audio Game Maker)

Hi, What would be really neat is an accessible (self voicing?) tool that can create and work with QuestMl games. QuestMl is standard xml markup for choose your own adventure; it already supports pictures, multimedia, and lots else. If your program could allow screen reader users to easily

Re: [Audyssey] Playing interactive fiction on the PACMate

Hi, Frostz is what you want; it has a blind mode for accessibility: http://digilander.libero.it/jpdefault/frostz_index.html It only supports the z-machine 1.0 standard, not 1.1 though, so some games may not function as expected (especially _moments out of time_ and the other games in that

Re: [Audyssey] Creating trivia files in Jim Kitchen's game

Hi, Save the file as text (.txt). Then, find the saved file in Windows Explorer and rename it (with f2) to the propper extension (.tg). You will get a warning from windows about doing this, but you can say yes to it. Then things should work. Bryan Peterson wrote: Hi all, Well, just

Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Scripts for WinFrots

Hi, I've never heard of frotz scripts; however, I find frotz one of the harder to use z-machine players. I find nitfol easier, as it includes an option to have new text on the screen read out with a sapi voice. Also the window is much less cluttered. Also, response times are slightly quicker.