> Some background: In the '80s, Infocom produced a lot of excellent
> adventure games, and they published them all in portable, completely
> architecture-independant 'story files'. When you bought the game, you
> got an interpreter and a story file, (although you normally didn't know
> that). Since then, various people have decyphered the story file
> format and produced a compiler (Inform) to generate these files, and
> interpreters (Frotz being one) to play them.
>
> If we had Frotz, it would be simple to package up a large(ish) number
> of the games available.
Just so you know, I've already packaged up an Infocom parser (called
"infocom") package.
> I suspect a lot of the games would have to go in contrib, as they don't
> have their Inform source with them, and Inform itself would have to be
> non-free, 'cause it has restrictions on profit-making. I think Frotz
> could go in the main distribution, but I'll have to check on that...
None of the Infocom games can be distributed, however. You have to
buy them.
Brian
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