Z-Machine/BBSes


Tue, 28 Mar 1995 20:15:32 GMT

A friend of mine recently obtained permission to (if he can
figure out how) offer old Infocom games for on-line play on his
BBS. The biggest problems he has with this are:

1) Finding a method by which the games can be run as doors, and

2) Figuring out a way to fix the savegame directories so that
nobody can fiddle with paths and save where they shouldn't.

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.

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?

Thank you very much to anyone who can help out! Please e-mail
me at tpm5y@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU if you have any
suggestions, recommendations, or critiques.

-- Todd

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