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                               INFOCOM DATA FILE RE-INTERLEAVE
                               AND APPLE II DISK IMAGE MAKER
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                               WRITTEN BY THE USOTSUKI
                               (c) 2002 DOSIUS SOFTWARE CO.
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InterL is a program to create  Apple II disk images from Z2 and Z3 disk
images.  I do not have any  other Infocom games entirely  in DO/PO disk
images, so at this  time I cannot test  the ability to create Z4 games.
Also, Z5 games have a 16K interpreter.  I have been unable to  decipher
the format used  for B disks in Z5 since  my copy of "Beyond Zork" is a
DO image on side A and a NIB image on side B.  In addition, there seems
to be a major case of bugs  in the Z5-2A  interpreter; "Robocrook 2.0",
"Super Z Trek" and "Freefall" do  not  display  correctly  at  all  and
"Adventureland" is slightly fried.  Therefore I have not made any point
of releasing my Z5 hacking tools.

InterL  requires  an interpreter stub  in DO format  which uses  the DO
interleave, as  most of the interpreters do.  For more information  see
Stephen Tjasink's ap2inf  program, which does the opposite of this one.
I currently do not  have the "E" interpreter (Tjasink  says that it was
used by "Wishbringer:  The Magick Stone of Dreams" - so I might have it
later) - when I  do I'll see  how the data  file is laid out and update
this  program to  support it.  Thanks  to  Tjasink's  documentation and
asimov.net  (recently  I  have  been  using  planetmirror.com)  I  have
acquired the following interpreters:

     Z2 interpreter from "Zork I" release 15 (hack)
     Z3 40-column-only interpreter from "Enchanter" release 10
     Z3 interpreter "B" from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
        release 56
     Z3 interpreter "H" from "Spellbreaker" release 63
     Z3 interpreter "K" from "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" release 50
     Z3 interpreter "K" hacked by Coast to Coast; from "0/Blown!" hack
        (I removed the hacker's advertisement)
     Z3 interpreter "M" as supplied by Ben Anderson ("infocom.zip")

I have included a  copy  of  Graham  Nelson's "Curses" in  an  older Z3
version which is converted using  this program, so that you may see its
results for yourself, and while I  was at it, what the hey, I packed in
ap2inf, my build.

If you would like to strip an interpreter from  an  Infocom  game, make
sure the disk is DO (DOS ORDER) and  save the  first 12,288 bytes (12K)
of the file.

If you have a Z1 game (Zork I release 5) please send it to me!  I would
like to try converting Zork I release 2 to an Apple II disk image...

                                       Steve "Dosius/Usotsuki" Nickolas
                                                   steve@dosius.zzn.com
                                                         2002.0207.0500
