To: Shane.O'Neill
  Re: Infocom games user display issues...
  By: nospam.Shane.O'Neill to All on Thu May 09 2019 10:30 pm

 no> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.mystic

 no> I am setting up the infocom games as doors on Mystic. So far I have gotten
 no> 17 infocom games to work perfectly using netfoss. How ever some others
 no> have issues on the users end and wont display at all or display while
 no> overwriting the text.

 no> My setup for the BBS is running the latest Mystic A43 on Windows 7 32bit.

 no> Here are the two situations:

 no> A) You can see the game is running just fine on the BBS machine in the
 no> users local window but on their end nothing shows until you exit the game
 no> for them from the local window on the BBS machine.

 no> B) The game does display on the users end but each line of text overwrites
 no> on its self. How ever in the users window on the local BBS machine it is
 no> displaying just fine.

 no> Any input/suggestions for these two different situations?

Lots of later Infocom games actually use graphical text so using Netfoss
without some kind of interpreter to convert the game to normal text may not
work.

I found a program called Waffle Infocom that I run on synchronet, but it only
works with Z3 files (first 20 or so, published Infocom games), so anything v.Z4
and above won't work.

An interpreter like Frotz might help you out if you can get it to work. For
some reason I could never get the Windows version to work with Netfoss. I've
heard Frotz will work just dandy under Linux with BBSs, but I haven't tried it
yet.

Lots of people have suggested finding a Python Interpreter like Viola!
(https://intfiction.org/t/viola-a-z-machine-in... and converting it
for use with Mystic, but that's beyond my abilities.

-A.
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