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voidmain:
Ok, compiled frotz 2.41 and ran a sample zcode game on it.  I didn't see Zork on the site you mentioned.  Am I looking in the wrong place?

Actually, I just downloaded ZTUU which appears to be Zork but I don't know for sure if it is the original Zork 1.

[ February 20, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

psyjax:
Zork UU is good. That is a game made by the origional Zork designers to promote Zork: Grand Inquisitor. The origional zork 1 is calld mini-zork. It's the whole game, I'm not quite sure why they call it mini.

EDIT: Scratch that, hmmm things have changed at IFArchive. Im gonna try and see if I can track down the zcode files.

[ February 20, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

FINAL EDIT:

Ok! I traked down the origional Inform files for zork 1-3

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pete/Infocom/games.html

download the ZIP version and open the DATA folder. Then put the .DAT file werever you are keeping your zcode. At the propt frotz [gamename].DAT. That should do it! Have fun! Check the other stuff on the site to, he may have more files.

TRUELY FINAL EDIT:

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/hhgg.z5

the above is zcode for the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy another supper awsome game, if you want it.

[ February 20, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

[ February 20, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

dbl221:
Uhm well I don't play games but at my school we do Unix/Linux about 60% of the time....we do Micro$hit stuff and Networking the rest of the time.

This is a course in Computer Systems at college not High School....we did all our programming in high school on stacks of punch cards.....Fortran

How getto is that....hey it was the 80's.  :eek:

Calum:
toptastic! i like to hear of institutions that don't use M$ blindly and dumbly!

Re: Australia, all up and down the East Coast, i stayed a few weeks in Mullumbimby and the general Byron area last August/September. Very good...

Druid:
I am a teacher at a secondary school (11-16 years) in England and our network is 100% Win98.  From my experience MS is the preferred choice of OS for education.  Some schools use NT, some use Win9x, but anything else is rare.

We used to have some Apple Macs, but they have been "retired" and replaced with PCs - "too expensive to buy Macs", "too difficult to nintegrate into our network".  The SysAdmin is a 20 something who has no experience of anything except MS, and no inclination to learn anything else.

There was a tradition of using a whole range of machines and OSes because they would do the job best, but that has disappeared in the past 6 or 7 years.  I have worked in schools that used BBCs, Acorn, Apple, Amiga and Atari's in different departments.  No chance of networking them, but it wasn't necessary in the days before widespread internet access was available.  

Art & Design used Amigas for graphics, Music used Atari ST with built in MIDI, Acorn was a big player in the educational software market.  Now MS have come to dominate here as elsewhere.  To many people there does not *appear* to be any alternative.

On a related note, I don't know what sort of deal MS offer schools, but I paid

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