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From: scott gamble <g10517@email.mot.com>
Subject: Re: Zork
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:38:17 GMT
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jrs@az.com (Jonathan R. Seagrave) wrote:
>
> I downloaded the zork from the info-mac archive -- the one that has zork1
> through 3 all wrapped into one program and is supposedly ported from the
> original  DEC code.  anyway, i figured i'd be fun to play it and see how
> different it was from the infocom version.  Short off all the room exits
> being mixed around it's pretty similar to what I remember from the infocom
> verson.
> 
> however, I have a couple questions concerning the loud room, Aragain
> falls, and the entrance to hades.
> 
> spoilers:
> 
> 
> 
> loud room: there seems to be no effect to the volume in the room when the
> dam is opened and closed.  is the puzzle different in this version?  has
> the info-mac version i downloaded been ported poorly?  what's up?
> 
> Aragain Falls:  hmm I seem to remeber a scepter to make the waterfall
> walkable...  this version has no scepter (it was in the coffin right?) and
> by the time the river has been floated long enough to get the bouy, there
> is no other way out (again... in this version... it's a bit different that
> the infocom version)  Is this a bug?  is there another way across the
> rainbow?  there's a barrel at the top of the falls but it's quite leathal
> to go over the falls in that.
> 
> Hades:  the black book's pages cannot be turned (in this version).  there
> are no instructions to ring bell, light candles, and read book.  And, none
> of that stuff works anyway... whatsup with that?  Again, is this an error
> in porting the program or what?  I can't imagine that the original DEC
> version didn't have the little bell, candle, book ceremony.
> 
> anyway... if anyone has any clues as to what might be going on -- Am i
> missing something here or does this version just not have this stuff? --
> I'd love to have some responses..
> 
> thanks :)
> 
> jrs     http://www.az.com:/~jrs
> --
> The other day I saw a bumper sticker which read "Honk if you passed 
> p-chem."  I honked and the driver flipped me off.  I guess he didn't pass


what was the address that you downloaded it  from???

