Games and Amusements

[Michael Whapples]

The name of the interpreter for infocom games is frotz (well that's the
one I use) and it works well with speakup. I can't remember where to
download it, but ubuntu and gentoo both have it in their repositries,
and you'll find it if you search for frotz on the internet.

I can't remember where I got the 3 original zork games (zork 1, zork 2
and zork 3), but if you search for "zork2.z5" you'll probably find it.
There were some other zork games, (e.g. zork the undiscovered
underground), and there are some other games written in the same format
by other authors.

Sorry I couldn't give any specific websites for archives of the games.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:55 -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for 
> linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget 
> the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 
> 07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
> > Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
> > thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
> > 
> > 
> > > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> > > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> > > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > >> Howdy,
> > >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
> > >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
> > >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
> > >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
> > >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
> > >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
> > >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
> > >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
> > >> words, or lines as appropriate?
> > >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
> > >> yourselves with Linux?
> > >> Thanks much,
> > >> Zack.
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