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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Surprise in IceBreaker
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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 03:44:36 GMT
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Erskin Cherry (echerry@warren-wilson.edu) wrote:
> I know, I know, IceBreaker is an arcade game for the PC line of computers
> that comes on CD-ROm and this is not the place for chit chat about arcade
> games.

> So why am I posting this? Well, for those of you with the CD, check out the
> IceMaker directory and look inside the PTRO folder.

> Hmm.. what's this ICE.Z5 thingy?
> Looks like an Inform data file.
> Why not try Frotz on it? Or just use the PTRO executable that is sitting
> nearby?

> Yes, it's there, all in plain text, "ICEBREAKER: An Interactive Thingie" the
> Inform compiled text adventure version of the arcade game by the same name.

I'm so glad *someone* found this.

(I wrote it.)

(No, I can't upload it to GMD. I don't own the copyright.)

--Z

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