[accessiblelinux] Re: accessible games
- From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:11:36 -0400
Hi,
thanks, this is very cool! At the moment, I have my hands full with
this Wine gaming stuff. There are a ton of them and some work in Wine
while some don't. So, I am trying to get enough info together for an
article and instructions for installing a lot of them. Would you mind
posting a comment on the blog with this info in it? The blog needs some
more good comments anyway, and this will be very useful to gamers If
you don't have time, or think it deserves its own article, just let me
know and I'll do it as soon as I can.
thanks
Storm
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On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 15:02 -0400, aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> greetings,
> Storm, recently you posted a message about running accessible games
> through wine. While I was reading that posting on your blog, I
> skimmed through and saw an earlier entry on accessible games in linux.
> You forgot about text adventures or "interactive-fiction."
>
> If your not familiar with I.F., those are the old-style games that
> write discriptions to the screan, and the player types actions into
> the keyboard (akin to those choose your own adventure books, but more
> flexible).
>
> There are three accessible interpreters for Ubuntu.
>
> 1. TADS:
> The easiest, works out-of-the-box. just type sudo apt-get install
> tads-2. To play a game, type t3run <filename> (see the end of this
> e-mail for where to find games).
>
> 2. adrift:
> There's an independant interpreter (other than the official adrift
> runner) called scare. It's open-source just google/bing "adrift +
> scare" and you should be able to find the source code. It compiled on
> my machine no problem. To play a game, type "scare <game>.taf" (again
> see the end for location of games).
>
> 3. inform/z-code:
> There are countless interpreters for z-code games, but most use
> curses/ncurses/pdcurses for the display interface (not orca friendly).
> You can compile a plain-text ("dumb") frotz interpreter with the
> command "make dumb" durring the build process. The resulting
> exicutible should be named dfrotz.
>
>
> where to find I.F. games.
> Contrary to popular belief, I.F. did not disappear from the earth
> after the 1980's. Many people (for free) are still producing text
> adventures every year. The master location to find anything I.F.
> related is the I.F. archieve (http://www.ifarchive.org/), but that's a
> rather large cumbersome site for the uninitiated, so i prefer baff's
> Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive (http://www.wurb.com/if/),
> which has the benefit of descriptions and user rankings for individual
> games.
>
> I.F. games aren't advertised as specifically "accessible" they just
> are by nature most of the time.
>
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