On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 19:38, Brian wrote:
> The CGA graphics would be fun, lack of it it keeps one or two of the
> Infocom games from being playable IIRC.
Totally. There aren't too many Z interpreters that DO support it, even
on the desktop. A few, tho.
> hmm. Not tried that one (Nord & Bert)- that bug hit any of the other
> Infocoms on the Newt?
Dunno for sure. There was a format change in later Infocom games where
your available exits, etc are shown along a little 'topbar' that kept
your status and other things. Unfortunately, Yazi disappeared the
topbar for me in my savegames, and the nature of Nord & Bert is such
that you -can-not- progress in the game without watching the topbar for
available exits. Sigh.
> BTW, I have a spare shrinkwrapped box of one of the "best" of the "Infocom
> masterpieces" collections- I forget the exact title, since there were a few
> different "masterpieces of.." released, but it is the most
> complete/desireable IIRC, has PDFs of manuals, etc. They were going for
> quite a bit on ebay last I looked; if anyone wants it, in a couple weeks
> I'll check exact specs on the collection, email me privately if you are
> interested and I'll send details once I get home and can be accurate.
(*nod) I have that too -- the only really nice one it's missing is
Hitchhiker's Guide, (also Shogun, both for copyright reasons) and I have
my original 5-1/4" floppies of that, so I managed to wrap my own package
of that.
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