games that end in a Z extention

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Tue Jan 21 20:29:15 EST 2003


Speaking of infocom games, what's a good interpreter for linux?

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> It's an Inform game which is the same format Infocom uses if it ends in
> .z5 or .z8 or maybe .z3.  If it ends in just .Z, that is, the Z is
> uppercase, it's compressed with the old Unix compress.  Gunzip will handle
> it just like a regular .gz file.  Don't use ftp.gmd.de.  It's no longer
> being maintained.  ftp.ifarchive.org is the new IF home, but it is
> painfully slow.  I suggest ftp.plover.net as a good mirror with plenty of
> bandwidth.  It runs on a Linux server, too.
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