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Article #350334Re: Broken Sword Director's cut on GOG.com (freebie is coming soon)
From: Andrew Plotkin
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:53
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:53
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Here, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:06:33 +0000 (UTC), in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure, > Andrew Plotkin wrote: > > >This year's IF Competition just started. <http://ifcomp.org/> > > > >Roughly 40 new text games, although a few of them are CYOA-style > >rather than Zork-style. > > Thanks for the suggestion. It's cool to hear from you. I was recently, as in > just 2 or 3 days ago, researching how to get "Frotz" to run in my Windows 7 x64 > environment, and I ran across your name while looking over the "blorb" file > specs. The only reliable version for Windows 7 x64 is Frotz 2002 (WinFrotz has > quirks) and it needed blorb files for games like Zork Zero. I had been using > WinFrotz previously. I'm afraid I have no Windows experience here at all. (Macs at home.) I know that "Windows Frotz" is still being updated, whereas "WinFrotz" is abandoned. I'm not surprised that it's blorb-based -- everybody is moving to blorb as a standard distribution format. > Back to your comment, I check into the IF Competition now and then, but not > every year. On-and-off, I've been playing Magnetic Scrolls' "Wonderland," but I > haven't had the time lately. If I could get my s__ together, I'd probably fire > up Adrift and write something for the competition. I look forward to it. :) --Z -- "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..." *
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From: Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com>
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Subject: Re: Broken Sword Director's cut on GOG.com (freebie is coming soon)
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