infocom/interpreters/old/appleII/README

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 05:09:22 EDT
From: aa382@freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
To: blasius@gmd.de


I just stuck a couple of files in the if-uploads section that are
relevant to Infocom and the Apple II. One is infocompro.shk - this
includes a utility (InfoSnarf) to extract the game data from the older
5.25" disk format for 8-bit Apple II's and save them in the newer
standard format. InfocomPro itself is an interpreter that runs under
ProDOS, making these games playable on newer large-capacity disk
devices.

The second upload is GNOInfocom.shk, which is useful to people running
the Unix workalike system GNO on an Apple IIGS. It's simply an interpreter
which reads the same datafiles as InfocomPro (or from the various editions
of the Lost Treasures of Infocom for instance).

Both are freeware, and packed with ShrinkIt (the usual packer for the II;
unpack with the 8 or 16-bit versions of ShrinkIt, or with NuLib on a Unix
system).


(this information may be useful in a README file on the archive)

Thanks,

Marc

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Marc Sira                  |
aa382@freenet.carleton.ca  |  "Your god drinks...p-p-peach nectar."
toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca     '

[note by Volker Blasius: 
file infocompro.shk is linked to infocom/tools/infocompro.shk]