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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Strip TADS games to .gam file?
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Mr. Joel Burton (burton@umbc.edu) wrote:
> Is there a utility that will take a TADS application file game,
> and convert it to the .gam file? I'm starting to download lots
> of TADS files that seem to be available only as full applications,
> and I'd rather have them as .gam files, with the single runtime
> program.

Which ones? I've actually found just about every game I've looked for as 
a .gam file. Most of the ones I've downloaded recently have been ZIP 
archives containing an MS-DOS interpreter and a .gam file; I drag the 
.gam file into the appropriate folder on my Mac and trash the rest.

If you've got a Mac stand-alone application, I believe you can just 
delete the resource fork and change the type, and you'll have a .gam 
file. 

(time passes)

I just tried it, and it worked.

--Z

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