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'infocom' and 'z5' in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew K Gray)
Sun Oct 13 01:57:56 1996
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
From: Matthew K Gray <mkgray@MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 1996 01:57:23 -0400
I have installed the 'infocom' and 'zip' Z-code interpreters in the
outland locker. I installed the 'zip' interpreter as 'z5' to avoid
name conflicts (it actually interprets up through z-code version 8).
In order to use these, you need a z-code program. A number of free
z-code games are installed in /mit/outland/share/lib/infocom/.
Generally, the z5 interpreter is better than infocom. So, to play a game,
do:
add outland
z5 /mit/outland/share/lib/infocom/curses.z5
or any other game name.
For more info on z-code:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/small.html
For more info on Infocom games in general:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/
I may try to install the infocom game compiler sometime in the not too
distant future.
It is installed for Solaris, IRIX, and Linux.
...Matthew
