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From: thomsonj@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (James Thomson)
Subject: Re: Has InfoTaskForce been ported to Mac or Unix?
Message-ID: <C6981q.4oz@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:49:01 GMT
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bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:

>Has the InfoTaskForce infocom player been ported to the Macintosh?  If
>not, is there a Unix port available that I could use as a foundation
>for doing that port myself?

>And does that program allow Infocom games to actually be played, and
>games to be saved, and so forth, just like with the normal Infocom parser?

I ported - well, compiled - one of the infocom parsers as an MPW tool,
I think it was the itf one, with no modifications. It was pretty neat being able
to play LGOP under MPW but a bit buggy because of the way MPW handles it's
command lines. I seem to remember there was a makefile option for Think C 4.x,
but you could just compile everything up fine. There was another infocom
player kicking about in the same place too. 

Yes, it let you play the games just like normal. If only I hadn't sold off
my Infocom games with my ST! The only way I could test it was with a mac copy
of LGOP - the story files are stored in the data fork of the application.

James
