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traviswf

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:53 pm
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Hey all. I'm looking to play Nelson's new game, Reliques of whosey
whatsit - but I've yet to use a Glulxe interpreter. I can't seem to
find a good page about the latest interpreter for this format. And I
found some Winglulxe links in a search of the forum, but they were
dead.

Any pointing in the right direction would be most appreciated.

Thanksf or the help!

-Travis

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:47 pm
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Oh, okay. I thought to use a blorb file you need a Glulxe interpreter.
I'm not sure how I came to that conclusion. Thanks for the
clarification!

So what is the purpose of the blorb file exactly?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:50 pm
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Wei-ju Wu wrote:
> "Reliques of Tolti-Aph" is a Z-code game, however the Z-code is
> embedded within a Blorb file, so you either have to unwrap it or use an
> interpreter that supports it, such as Windows Frotz 2000 (Windows),
> Zoom (Mac OS X, X-Windows) or ZMPP (Java).

If you already have Gargoyle running on Windows, you can just rename
the file to a .Z8 file and it should still run with its Frotz
component.

--Arnel
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:26 pm
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On 2006-04-22 17:47:44 -0400, traviswf DeleteThis @gmail.com said:

> Oh, okay. I thought to use a blorb file you need a Glulxe interpreter.
> I'm not sure how I came to that conclusion. Thanks for the
> clarification!
>
> So what is the purpose of the blorb file exactly?

The blorb file is a bundle for all the resources used by the game. In
a Glulx game it would contain multimedia; for Zcode games I'm not sure.
Cover art?

Best,
James
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:19 am
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For Z-code games it does contain multimedia as well: "Sherlock" and
"Lurking Horror" provide sound effects, V6 games such as "Zork Zero",
"Shogun", "Arthur" and "Journey" contain graphics.

The newer Inform 7 games ("Bronze", "Damnatio Memoriae", "Reliques of
Tolti-Aph") include cover art and meta data.

The latter are packed in a single Blorb-File whereas in the former
there are separate Z-code files, the multimedia data in blorb format is
available from the archive. This is, because the Infocom games are
still under copyright (I think).

Wei-ju
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:55 pm
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Here, James Cunningham <jameshcunningham.DeleteThis@google.com> wrote:
> On 2006-04-22 17:47:44 -0400, traviswf.DeleteThis@gmail.com said:
>
> > Oh, okay. I thought to use a blorb file you need a Glulxe interpreter.
> > I'm not sure how I came to that conclusion. Thanks for the
> > clarification!
> >
> > So what is the purpose of the blorb file exactly?
>
> The blorb file is a bundle for all the resources used by the game. In
> a Glulx game it would contain multimedia; for Zcode games I'm not sure.
> Cover art?

Cover art and bibliographical information (title, author, release
date, etc.)

A Z-code game could also contain multimedia (sound in any Z-code file,
graphics in a V6 game).

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