Unofficial Zork Week

[trekiej]

I played Zork I on X64 the other day and I can see why people could like.
Your imagination is better than any screen.
I am doing some drawing of what I think the Zork ,uh, Universe may look like.
It is interesting how I do not actually draw what I am visual-izing. If I would I could draw some cool stuff.

I know, I know unofficial dork week.  

[ChaosLord]

You have been eaten by a Grue.

[gaula92]

It's pitch dark...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

[Ral-Clan]

Oh....YES....text adventures are the BEST computer games ever made.  I have absolutely the most fun I've ever had in front of a computer with text adventures (now called Interactive Fiction).

They are still being written, are often downloadable for free, the good ones are absolutely compelling, unforgettable and absorbing.  Even the mediocre ones are fun.

Also, because they don't have graphics (all the imagery is in your mind) they don't get dated (any more than a good book would be dated).

Watch out for those twisty little passages, by the way.  They are all alike.

[motrucker]

Think of the poor younger generation who have missed Zork. What a shame.....

[gaula92]

Speaking of Zork, do you know if there's some way to run the game with a given font?
I know I can do "setfont topaz 10" and it sets a new font for the shell in use, but can setfont be used to set a system-wide font?
No Workbench here. I don't use WB at all, just AmigaDOS (and I do everything I need way faster than clicking around)

[trekiej]

Ah command line junkie.
I know infocom has dos and mac files of Zork.
Has anyone use them in Dosbox,etc?
I need to scan those drawings I made. I need to redo the house.
I got find out how many stories it has.

[Ral-Clan]

Speaking of Zork, do you know if there's some way to run the game with a given font?
I know I can do "setfont topaz 10" and it sets a new font for the shell in use, but can setfont be used to set a system-wide font?
No Workbench here. I don't use WB at all, just AmigaDOS (and I do everything I need way faster than clicking around)

Try playing Zork in the Amiga version of Frotz.  I believe it will allow you to set the display font for the game in session (plus other settings like text colour, etc.).

[trekiej]

You have been eaten by a Grue.

I knew I heard something in the basement. It must have been using my computer.
Which is better for games an A500 or A600?

[trekiej]

It's pitch dark...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

I will have to watch this one later.

[toRus]

What we really need is more Youtube longplays of old text adventures. Just kidding...

[gaula92]

Try playing Zork in the Amiga version of Frotz.  I believe it will allow you to set the display font for the game in session (plus other settings like text colour, etc.).

Wow, this Frotz engine is really irritating. I couldn't find the parameters to specify font size and colors. There's a menu to set these parameters inside Frotz itself but saving them doesn't work. Do you know what those parameters are?

[lsmart]

Wow, this Frotz engine is really irritating. I couldn't find the parameters to specify font size and colors. There's a menu to set these parameters inside Frotz itself but saving them doesn't work. Do you know what those parameters are?

There are other Z-Machine players for Zork too. I can't rember the names and how to set them up, but it wasn't particulary difficult. I haven't played Zork at all, but I used to fire up Zork II once in a while. Has been some years since now.


The only Infocom game I ever completed was The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Defeating the bugblatter beast of Traal by engraving your own name in the tombstone was one of my favorite puzzles. Oh and I hated the door: "I am a very busy door. Unless you can show me a clear sign of your intelligence, leave me alone" (or something like it).

You are carrying:
* No tea  - Just like the tea hitchhikers normally don't carry.

[Ral-Clan]

Wow, this Frotz engine is really irritating. I couldn't find the parameters to specify font size and colors. There's a menu to set these parameters inside Frotz itself but saving them doesn't work. Do you know what those parameters are?

I can't remember off-hand how I did it and now my A500 with Frotz installed is all packed away.  I do remember there was a way to permanently set the font.  It might have been in the display settings found within one of the pull down menus at the top.

I think you MIGHT have to have an adventure loaded into Frotz to save any parameters/settings in Frotz.  Then the settings might only apply to that particular adventure (so you could have separate preferences for each adventure).

[gertsy]

ZX Spectrum 1983, Velnor's Lair and The Hobbit; Although then latter with rudimentary graphics. Fun.
Could never get into Hitchhikers.