Well, if I remember correctly, Zork was for the original Z machine, and that's a game that's held up just as well as any 80s video game; millions still play it.
On 2/24/18, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > z8 is the last so far of the z-machine formats the .z5 format was an > earlier format. > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Tyler Zahnke wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 07:39:55 >> From: Tyler Zahnke <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking >> >> Wait, I'm confused. Based on the numbers, Z8 sounds newer than Z5. Why >> would it be harder to find software that's compatible with Z8 games >> than it is to find software compatible with Z5 games? >> >> On 2/24/18, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> z8 games can be played even on modern platforms. You would probably >>> need win-frotz to play them though. For those using Linux, we have >>> frotz and jzip available to us. The mac platform might have a problem >>> unless these packages are on darwin or fink or in the apple store, but >>> iPhone users and iPad users won't have any problem since the frotz app >>> is available in the app store and now you can use it to browse >>> ifarchives for games. >>> >>> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, mattias wrote: >>> >>>> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:47:45 >>>> From: mattias <[email protected]> >>>> Reply-To: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking >>>> >>>> z8? i think you cant play so old games on modern platforms accessible? >>>> >>>> e.g here in sweden there is a old webpage with swedish text adventures >>>> for >>>> i >>>> think amiga and some more >>>> >>>> but no no you cant play it accessible >>>> >>>> >>>> Den 2018-02-24 kl. 06:27, skrev Jude DaShiell: >>>>> I forget if this is a .z8 game or .tads but I remember one of them >>>>> with >>>>> the title "chicken vindalou" in which you prepared that dish. >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, dark wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 22:07:56 >>>>>> From: dark <[email protected]> >>>>>> Reply-To: [email protected] >>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>> Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking >>>>>> >>>>>> Not as yet. >>>>>> >>>>>> I believe Aprone is working on a restaurant management sim which we >>>>>> might >>>>>> see at some point, revelation involves lots of recipes some of which >>>>>> re >>>>>> cooking based, and as part of Parkboss you can setup snack stands, >>>>>> but >>>>>> that is about it in the world of audiogames. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are however lots of muds and several browser games which >>>>>> feature >>>>>> cooking, some of it fairly in depth cooking as an activity, though >>>>>> none >>>>>> concentrate on cooking specifically. >>>>>> >>>>>> off the top of my head Kingdom of loathing and metroplexity both >>>>>> have >>>>>> cooking and coctail crafting as major parts of their rp ethos, while >>>>>> the >>>>>> creature rpg puppet? nightmares lets you make recipes to feed to >>>>>> your >>>>>> soul puppets and even has a major quest chain where you work for a? >>>>>> chef. >>>>>> >>>>>> Gates of survival has cooking as an activity, but the access on that >>>>>> one >>>>>> is a little iffy. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mud wise, many of the crafting and survival muds such as Clok and >>>>>> lament >>>>>> have cooking, and I believe alteraeon is just introducing it too. >>>>>> >>>>>> Flexible survival also has cooking recipes as? parts of the general >>>>>> crafting. >>>>>> >>>>>> i know these aren't exactly what your looking for but these are thus >>>>>> far >>>>>> the best examples of? games with cooking in that I can think of. >>>>>> >>>>>> hth. >>>>>> >>>>>> All the best, >>>>>> >>>>>> Dark. >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Zahnke" >>>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 12:35 AM >>>>>> Subject: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> ?In the mainstream video game world, there are games like Cooking >>>>>>> Mama >>>>>>> ?and Burger Time. I was wondering if there were any audio-based >>>>>>> games >>>>>>> ?with a food/cooking theme. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118841): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118841 View All Messages In Topic (9): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/12585876 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/12585876/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
