Thanks, This may have been my problem.  I'll be taking it with me on vacation 
and giving it another shot.

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On 2013-05-21, at 10:14 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:

> Which flavor of the game did you download? Zoom creates an embedded browser 
> which dumps you to the interactive fiction database. Once you find a game you 
> like they offer it in several formats for download. You want to be sure to 
> grab the zmachine version.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 5/21/13 8:40 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
>> Zoom was OK, but I couldn't get it to download any of the games I wanted 
>> from it's online portal which I'm assuming is ifarchive.  After trying about 
>> 10 games and not finding one that would download I gave up.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Erik Burggraaf
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>> On 2013-05-20, at 6:48 PM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The frotz version is OK. Zoom for mac is amazingly good though, I recommend 
>>> it over the other for iOS though. 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPod
>>> 
>>> On 20 mai 2013, at 16:44, Cait and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Harry,
>>>> There's froths.  I know you said you weren't interested in the iOS side of 
>>>> things.  they do have an iOS version of it, but they might do a mac 
>>>> version as well, I think I remember somebody saying there was awhile back. 
>>>>  There are tons of games that come with it.
>>>> hth,
>>>> Cait
>>>> 
>>>> On 2013-05-20, at 5:45 PM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is anyone familiar with how to play text adventure games on OSX under 
>>>>> Mountain Lion?  I am interested in the Desktop platform rather than the 
>>>>> mobile side of things, but either would work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I looked on ifarchive.org and it looks like the interpreters are for much 
>>>>> older versions of the Mac, like 10.3 and earlier.  I like text adventures 
>>>>> and would like to check them out again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Harry
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