Re: [Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux
Hi Thomas, Just a note in case you need to compile from source. jzip uses termcap functions for I/O, which are in the ncurses library on Linux. A little Makefile editing should be all you need to substitute ncurses for termcap. The makefile you want is unixio.mak, not cursesio.mak. Hope this helps, Zack. On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi, Cool. I didn't know about jzip. I'm going to grab it now and try it. On 11/4/10, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, Personally, I find jzip a little more speech-friendly than Linux frotz. Unfortunately, Frotz has a habbit of rereading old text when used with Speakup, at least in my experience. jzip doesn't suffer from this problem. It is probably available in the package repositories for your distribution, or if not can be found on the IF Archive and compiled from source easily enough. For Tads games, frobtads works very well and doesn't suffer from the same sorts of repeated text problems. Hope this helps, Zack. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux
Hi, Cool. I didn't know about jzip. I'm going to grab it now and try it. On 11/4/10, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi, > Personally, I find jzip a little more speech-friendly than Linux frotz. > Unfortunately, Frotz has a habbit of rereading old text when used with > Speakup, at least in my experience. jzip doesn't suffer from this > problem. It is probably available in the package repositories for your > distribution, or if not can be found on the IF Archive and compiled from > source easily enough. > For Tads games, frobtads works very well and doesn't suffer from the same > sorts of repeated text problems. > Hope this helps, > Zack. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux
Ok, will try it out - only real issue is can't boot flash drive on this machine, so will only be able to try it out on other machine, but, thanks, and will definitely give it a try. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux Hi Jacob, Did you try using frotz for Linux? It is in the Ubuntu software repositories and you can get it by doing sudo apt-get install frotz and with it you can play most inform style IF games. However, it doesn't have speech output like Winfrotz TTS so you will need to use speakup or something like that with it to read the screens. HTH On 11/4/10, Jacob Kruger wrote: What would I use on my portable image/version of vinux for IFDB games - something similar to winfrotz etc., and preferably with some form of speech output? Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5592 (20101104) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5592 (20101104) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5592 (20101104) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux
Hi, Personally, I find jzip a little more speech-friendly than Linux frotz. Unfortunately, Frotz has a habbit of rereading old text when used with Speakup, at least in my experience. jzip doesn't suffer from this problem. It is probably available in the package repositories for your distribution, or if not can be found on the IF Archive and compiled from source easily enough. For Tads games, frobtads works very well and doesn't suffer from the same sorts of repeated text problems. Hope this helps, Zack. On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Jacob, Did you try using frotz for Linux? It is in the Ubuntu software repositories and you can get it by doing sudo apt-get install frotz and with it you can play most inform style IF games. However, it doesn't have speech output like Winfrotz TTS so you will need to use speakup or something like that with it to read the screens. HTH On 11/4/10, Jacob Kruger wrote: What would I use on my portable image/version of vinux for IFDB games - something similar to winfrotz etc., and preferably with some form of speech output? Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5592 (20101104) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux
Hi Jacob, Did you try using frotz for Linux? It is in the Ubuntu software repositories and you can get it by doing sudo apt-get install frotz and with it you can play most inform style IF games. However, it doesn't have speech output like Winfrotz TTS so you will need to use speakup or something like that with it to read the screens. HTH On 11/4/10, Jacob Kruger wrote: > What would I use on my portable image/version of vinux for IFDB games - > something similar to winfrotz etc., and preferably with some form of speech > output? > > Jacob Kruger > Blind Biker > Skype: BlindZA > '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' > > > > __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 5592 (20101104) __ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > 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/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] IFDB client software/interpreter for linux/vinux
What would I use on my portable image/version of vinux for IFDB games - something similar to winfrotz etc., and preferably with some form of speech output? Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5592 (20101104) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
