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From: kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk (David Kinder)
Subject: Re: Portability (was Inform Competition ?!!)
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Date: 30 May 95 17:09:59 BST
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: Infocom released some version 3 games for the Commodore 64 (at least
: Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Deadline, Starcross and Suspended), so if you
: can get hold of one of them, you can probably patch the interpreter so
: that it will play Inform's .z3 story-files (for example, Release 10 of
: "Curses").

In fact they released all the version 3 games for the c64, plus Border Zone
and Sherlock. The 6 you list were also released in about 83 by CBM in cut-down
packaging.

: I don't know if Infocom ever wrote a version 5 interpreter for the
: Commodore 128.  If they did, then you will be able to patch it so that
: you can play Inform's .z5 story files.

I think there were C128 versions of Trinity and Bureaucracy, and definitely
a c64 version 5 interpreter. I wouldn't like to try to fit Curses on one
of those old 5.25" disks, though. Stationfall was slow enough as it was - type
in the wrong thing and the disk drive would clunk and whir for about 30 seconds
before the c64 printed anything. Them were the days etc., etc.

David
