How did he do this? Contact Activision? Does this mean that anyone can
offer them or just your friend?
: 1) Finding a method by which the games can be run as doors, and
compile zip for DOS and use one of those door programs thtat redirects i/o
to the serial port. check ftp.cdrom.com
: 2) Figuring out a way to fix the savegame directories so that
: nobody can fiddle with paths and save where they shouldn't.
Hack the ZIP code before you compile it.
: I know this doesn't have anything to directly do with the *art*
: of IF, but I do think it would be a great boost for the local
: community here in Charlottesville, VA and introduce a lot of
: people to some great Infocom adventures.
More power to ya! I've got all of the TADS adventure I can find running
here, including Dungeon(a rewrite of the original Dungeon which Zork I,II,
and III came from).
: In reference to the first question, are there any Z-Machine
: interpreters which also act as doors? Does anyone know what
: I'm talking about?
I haven't seen any re-written as doors, but it shouldn't be too difficult
to use a FOSSIL interface. It would be alot easier if you were running
Linux.
Brian
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