Text Adventure Games

[KF6SNJ]

I don't know if this exists or not. But I am wondering if there is a pet package containing only text adventure games? I often enjoy that type of game experience where I really have to think about what I am doing. I do have dunnet which is part of the emacs package. Likewise I have adv770. However, I do think that there are several other text adventures out there. I think it would be kind of cool if they could all be gathered together as a pet package. Any thoughts?

[cb88]

have a look at this site may be of some help
http://www.brasslantern.org/beginners/linuxinterps.html

[ttuuxxx]

I used to love playing those text only adventure games on the vic-20 in the early 80's here's a link where you can play one online for free, its made after one of those game in the late 70's http://www.freearcade.com/Zplet.jav/Advent.html
Have fun
ttuuxxx

[John Lewis]

Hello,
I'm new to the forum but have used Puppy for several years.

I also like Text Games. My answer was to:

1) install wine
2) install Winfrotz.

It works very well.

Lots of text adventures to be found on the net.

Hope this helps

John L

[mdisaster2]

The classic Zork trilogy is available for download as well

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

It is the DOS version though, so it requires either a DOS emulator (DOSBox, Wine), a virtual machine (VMware, Qemu, Bochs, Virtualbox) running MSDOS, FreeDOS or Windows, or a z-machine interpreter such as Frotz for playing the games directly from Puppy.

[amigo]

Maybe you should look into the bsd-games package which comes standard with some distrros -there should be a slack package for it.

[paulski]

I've gone down this path a little while back trying to find something
that works quickly with minimum time investment.
Unfortunately the native Linux path is a little tricky.
Through Wine I had no trouble with WinFrotz for ".zz*" Z code Infocom style files
and WinTam for TAM TAG files

I found a supposed Linux binary for TAM - but who knows what kernel and distro it was compiled on - That doesn't work and I couldn't find a source.

For Frotz there are several engines in source available I couldn't get them to compile or setup nicely.
Kwest is a KDE based Z interpreter - but needs KDE, I had no desire to overload my lean Puppy, but perhaps someone else will.
http://kwest.sourceforge.net.

I also found DJPPFrotz240src.zip - I think this was a general C source for any OS
and Frotz2.4.3.tar.gz which went a little further but the make options are a little beyond me to tune up for puppy.
I can't recall where I downloaded them from but sourceforge is a good guess.

[cartz]

It looks like the program to use is Gargoyle.

http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/

Simply download as per instructions on the site and it runs straight away. This caters for many different formats. I've only tested it with z code (ie. frotz style) and it all seemed to work fine.

And here's a great guide to the games you can download to use with Gargoyle: http://wurb.com/if/

Cheers,

cartz.

[paulski]

Thanks cartz
Gargoyle has done it!
I had to run it from command line but it ran a z code game neater than windows Frotz did!
simply:

sh gargoyle gamename.z5

and away it went.
Now I can leave a text adventure running in the background natively without overloading my system when I need to look at something else.

[Aitch]

Aitch

[b_linux]

Gargoyle works great!

I just tried an Infocom title and a Magnetic Scolls title. Good stuff!

Thanks!

[106498]

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/home/
Heres some roguelikes. Gotta love them.
Also http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?go ... sic_Gamer. For a huge archive of dosgames.