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Text Adventure Games
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 04:57
by 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?
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 21:10
by cb88
Posted: Sat 01 Dec 2007, 10:53
by 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
Posted: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:27
by 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
Posted: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 14:45
by 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.
Posted: Tue 04 Dec 2007, 12:51
by amigo
Maybe you should look into the bsd-games package which comes standard with some distrros -there should be a slack package for it.
Linux Frotz, Kwest, TAM
Posted: Mon 10 Dec 2007, 19:11
by 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.
Posted: Wed 21 May 2008, 11:32
by 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.
Posted: Thu 29 May 2008, 20:17
by 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.
Posted: Thu 29 May 2008, 21:20
by Aitch
Thanks!
Posted: Thu 31 Jul 2008, 04:30
by b_linux
Gargoyle works great!
I just tried an Infocom title and a Magnetic Scolls title. Good stuff!
Thanks!
Posted: Thu 31 Jul 2008, 08:31
by 106498