Infocom games locally??

[Raul A. Gallegos]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Infocom games locally??


> As for the Frotz interpreter, I've found that the Linux version is
> usable, but doesn't read very well with speech.  It tends to repeat itself
> when the screen scrolls.  Games written with Tads and using the Tadsr
> interpreter seem to read better, but both are playable and provide great
> entertainment in Linux.

In Linux for inform style games such as infocom style try jzip instead.
It's much easier and reads things correctly.  If you use Debian you can
apt-get install jzip.  If not then visit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jzip// and you can get it.

Cheers.