From: Warren Brown
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:07 PM
To: 'Adams, M. Scott'
Subject: RE: Palm adventure

Scott,

>>     - In the install.txt file (from the "Palm Pilot
>> Playable Version" zip file), the user is referred
>> to the "PalmPilot Entertainment Zone" (P.E.Z.) at
>> http://www.fidalgo.net/~ram/ to get the Z-code
>> interpreter and other utilities.  Unfortunately,
>> this site is no longer up, so there is no easy way
>> to find these utilities (this is the problem I
>> first ran into when trying to run these games on
>> my Palm).  Perhaps you could put these utilities
>> up on your site?
>
> Ok can you give me links to them? I do not have them myself!

    Well, there are quite a few different versions of these utilities.  Most
of the original utilities have changed names, or there are other versions of
them.  Lets see what I can come up with...

    ZIP - the Z-code interpreter.  Needed to run the games:
        First off, there are several versions of ZIP and other Z-code
interpreters (both executables and source code) for various platforms at
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXinterpreters.html,
however this archive looks pretty old, and only has one version for the Palm
which is ancient.  As far as I can tell, there are two choices for Z-code
interpreters on the Palm:
            - Pilot-Frotz (Freeware): (note this is included in the Adventure palm-pilot zip now - Scott)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/2367/download.htm
            - Pilot Zip (Shareware): http://www.palmglyph.com/zip.html

    DOC - a document viewer.  Needed for intros and solves:
        There appear to be two main shareware DOC readers/editors:
            - AportisDoc (Shareware):
http://www.aportis.com/products/AportisDoc/benefits.html
            - TealDoc (Shareware): http://www.tealpoint.com/softdoc.htm
        There are also *lots* of freeware readers/editors.  I currently use:
            - CSpotRun (Freeware): http://www.pobox.com/~wtc/palmos/cspotrun

    ImageViewer - an image viewer (duh!).  Needed for maps:
        The original Image Viewer program has now turned into:
            - FireViewer (Shareware):
http://www.firepad.com/download/index.html

    While investigating all this stuff, I ran across a site dedicated to
Interactive Fiction for the Palm Pilot:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9590/interactive.htm.  This might be an
easy way to get people pointed in the right direction.


    Anyway, I hope that at least some of this makes sense.  Let me know if
there is anything else I can help with.

    - Warren Brown
