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Charred_Phoenix
07-17-2004, 07:00 PM
I'm trying to play some old Infocom games with Zoom, the only problem is that Zoom won't recognise the .ZIP files unless I make them .z<number> and when I do that it ignores the other files (mg1, cg1, etc.) so I get no graphics. Does anyone know how I could go about fixing this?

Icarus
07-17-2004, 07:11 PM
Is there a README or anthing? The Zoom home page (http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/unix/zoom/) is pretty sparse on info...

Could you include all the files in a zip?

Charred_Phoenix
07-17-2004, 07:15 PM
Nope, no readme =(

And it can't play .zips, not even .ZIPs which are genuine intercom Z-Code

Charred_Phoenix
07-18-2004, 04:09 AM
Are there any other graphical ZMachine interpreters for *nix?

Icarus
07-18-2004, 10:55 AM
Google.linux has a few hits for zmachine (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=ZMachine&btnG=Google+Search)
Pram is listed at Freshmeat (http://www.afront.be/bin.html#pram)
But I've never used any of these so I can't say much about them :(