Re: Off Topic, but **Fantastic News** for us Infocom gamers!

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At 04:05 PM 7/30/2004, you wrote:
>What kinds of games can you play? Are they like RPG's?
>Allison
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Beto Escobar III" <betoescobar3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "JFW List Serve" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: "W. Scott Dillman" <sdillman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 4:53 PM
>Subject: Off Topic, but **Fantastic News** for us Infocom gamers!
>
>
> > Hello my fellow adventurers,
> >
> >
> > Believe it or not, to us, who are the old intrepid adventurers via the old
>Infocom days, well, those days are now back!  I now have a link to a website
>where some great gentleman, who is now my newest best friend, fixed the
>problems with the WinFrotz 2002, and now has it with, Ta Da, speech
>capability witch works!  Yeah!  The webmaster's name is Scott, and he is
>looking for people, like us, who would give him some feedback regarding,
>"tweaks" he has to make to remove all the bugs for people with visual
>disabilities.  There is an E-mail address for him on one of those pages.
> >
> >
> >
> > When you have installed the WinFrotz, then go to http://www.latz.org, and
>look for a few of the games to download and play.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This is the step-by-step procedure to install Winfrotz TTS on your system:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1/ Go to
> >
> > http://www.binaryrevelations.com/talkback/downloads.shtml
> >
> > And
> >
> > Download the file linked under "WinFrotz TTS 2002"
> >
> >
> >
> > 2/ this will result in a ZIP file called WinFrotzTTS2002_setup.zip on your
> >
> > hard disk. Unpack this ZIP archive, which contains the setup program
>called
> >
> > WinFrotzTTS2002_setup.exe. Launch that .exe and install the program
> >
> >
> >
> > 3/ Launch WinFrotz TTS (located at Start - Programs - WinfrotzTTS -
> >
> > WinfrotzTTS). Attention: right at startup, the program will show a file
> >
> > dialog in which you have to choose the story file you want to play. For
> >
> > example, choose a Z code game you downloaded at latz.org. I think that
>there
> >
> > is no audible indication of this dialog, and it is required to pick a game
> >
> > at the beginning, otherwise Winfrotz will not start.
> >
> >
> >
> > 4/ Once you selected a story file, Winfrotz will open that particular
>story
> >
> > and start the talking. It will read all the output created by the game,
>but
> >
> > Not you're input.
> >
> >
> >
> > 5/ If Winfrotz does not work at all or does not talk, you will have to
> >
> > install the Speech kit. You can find it at
> >
> > http://www.binaryrevelations.com/talkback/downloads.shtml
> >
> > under the link
> >
> > called "English TTS package I put together from the Speech SDK". The
> >
> > download will create a ZIP archive called CoreTTS.zip on your hard disk.
>As
> >
> > before, unpacking the archive will result in an executable setup file
>called
> >
> > CoreTTS.msi. Even though it does not have an .exe extension, you can
>launch
> >
> > CoreTTS.msi like a regular program. Doing so will result in the speech SDK
> >
> > being installed onto your computer.
> >
> >
> >
> > 6/ After completing step 5/, launch WinfrotzTTS again, select a story
>file,
> >
> > and enjoy the text to speech.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope to see you all underneath the old white house!
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Wishes-
> >
> >
> >
> > Beto Escobar III
> >
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