Subject: Re: Extracting Infocom Games From Apple II Disks
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Angela Frazier writes ...
> 
> Delfs wrote:
> 
> > Angela:
> > For what purpose?  If you need any infomration to use the games, there
> > is tons of it out on the web regarding clues all the way through
> > walk-throughs.  If you need the infomration to cross platforms, consider
> > buying the 'Lost Treasures of Infocom' for your platform, it's alot
> > easier..  One more thing to consider, if you like these sort of games,
> > look up 'text adventure' on the web, there are a few folks out there
> > keeping the text adventure alive.
> >
> > Thankx,
> > Ed
> 
>      Some infocom games arent being sold anymore even in the Lost Treasures
> Of Infocom collection, the only copies of some Ive found on the net are for
> the apple. I would like to extract the .dat files so I can play them on my
> PC without having to use an emulator.


     You can find about 30 Infocom adventures in the two LostTreasures folders
on ACN Florida:

files Infocom2.shk through Infocom3.shk at ...
ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/Games/LostTreasures/

and in files LT2a.shk and LT2b.shk at ...
ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/Games/LostTreasures2/  .


     To unshrink the above on a PC you can use NuLib v3.24. It is available in
a .zip file (Nulib324.zip) at ...
ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/Utilities/ .


     The files you obtain should work with PC "z-code" interpreters (like
Inform5) which you can find on the interactive fiction archive at ...
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/ .




Rubywand