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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: Conversion of Infocom games from AppleIIc to DOS
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 00:27:10 GMT
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In article <sunshine.758505554@cnn.eng.convex.com> sunshine@convex.com (Roger Sunshine) writes:
>In <14171@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> karrin@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Karrin M. Kwolek) writes:
>
>>I have several original Infocom games in Apple IIc format and was wondering
>>if there is a way to run them on an MS-DOS machine.  Any info would be
>>appreciated.

Go to ftp.gmd.de, in /if-archive/infocom somewhere.

>If you can figure out
>which sectors of the apple disk are the game data file, you should be able
>to read them off the disk into a file, get the file onto a pc and then
>use the pc interpreter to play the game

Remember that Infocom used standard 16-sector format.  This shouldn't be
too hard if you have Copy II Plus or something like that.

> (it'll probably be only 40 columns
>wide though)

Should be 80.  You could play the old V3 games for the II+ with one of the
later IIe 80-col. compatible interpreters and get it with real
capitalization and pretty formatting.  All of the information is in the
fully portable .dat file and the interpreter decides how to present it, I
think.

Adam
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