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parchment | scummvm | |
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8 | 165 | |
413 | 2,206 | |
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7.8 | 10.0 | |
about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
TypeScript | C++ | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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parchment
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Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
This is a fun one I played recently about shopping in a grocery store, called Aisle. You only have a single command you can give for the whole game, but there's a looot of them you can provide, and it gives you a different ending for each. Part of the fun is trying to figure out what you can say to find another ending. You can play it directly at the link below.
Play: https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2F...
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These days is there any way to play old Infocom games on an iPhone?
Paste any of those URLs into https://iplayif.com for a modern web interpreter.
- Ask HN: What game you wished existed?
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The quest 2 needs a better browser!
it's a mobile browser based on chrome and while I don't use it for this, I find it acceptable enough, actually better than the mobile chrome in my phone for some things, like https://iplayif.com/ which runs much better on it thanks to a generous virtual screen than on small screen sharing space with a virtual keyboard...
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
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Zork: The Great Inner Workings. Exploring the source code and game
This article is interesting as it seems "the long way around": the Z-Machine is rather well documented, and already has VMs for the web [1] and going to the ZIL source to build a port of the ZIL itself rather than to interpret the Z-Machine binary is cool, I suppose, but ignores decades of insights into the Z-Machine.
While I'm being a downer, also need to point out that while the Internet Archive has archived the ZIL source code the Zork games are still under copyright and owned by Activision Blizzard (soon/now Microsoft). Using Zork itself as a deployment artifact is a possible way to get sued even if you think the game "abandonware".
[1] The best known/maintained is Parchment: https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment
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Issues with releasing
Are you using the latest version of Parchment? The version that ships with the official I7 packages is very old. Updating might address your issue, but I don't know.
scummvm
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
ScummVM - Engine to run DOS Point & Click Adventure games. C++, SDL2, OpenGL
- Thimbleweed Park support is coming to ScummVM
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GOG.com Affiliation Links for ScummVM are no longer supported
They're now affiliated with ZoomPlatform, if you want to both buy DRM-free and support ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20230830/ , https://www.scummvm.org/ (link on right under PayPal)
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Sanitarium's modern port added to Luxtorpeda for Steam
u/d10sfan has added ScummVM port for Sanitarium to Luxtorpeda repos. Thanks to that, modern port of the game can be played as a Steam game.
u/d10sfan has added ScummVM port for Sanitarium to Luxtorpeda repos. Thanks to that, modern port of the game can be played as a Steam game.
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The complete guide to publishing free software video games
SCUMM VM is now like that, plenty of Point and Click games https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm
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Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
It's a long shot, but some old games are available via https://www.scummvm.org/
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Question: I'd love to play all the Ultimas again. Realistically, what's the best way to do it?
Ultima 6 - I use ScummVM to play it. It's a great engine that provides a layer of UI compatibility over the game.
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Piracy and... McCarthyism?
The game is "Beneath A Steel Sky", an old school point and click adventure. And though the graphics are pixel style, they are still very well done, and the game and story are still great. The emulator is ScummVM. There's some other games that were released as freeware.
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How to Get and Run Rolypolys 2
ScummVM, which has been working on Adobe Director support, can detect the game (thank you @mistydemeo <3), but trying to run it will softlock you on the game's title screen, unable to click anything. It's likely this will be fixed in the future, but for now I can't recommend it for this particular game.
What are some alternatives?
jquery.terminal - jQuery Terminal Emulator - JavaScript library for creating web-based terminals with custom commands
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
extensions - Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy!
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
asyncglk - AsyncGlk: A Typescript Glk library
UnderworldExporter - Updated Release 27th Oct 2018 Unity based port of Ultima Underworld I and II. Download under releases
bitburner - Bitburner Game
MAME4iOS - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS (Catalyst)
if - Interactive Fiction technology: specifications and tests
video2x - A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler achieved with waifu2x, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR. Started in Hack the Valley II, 2018.
endless-sky - Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
Play- - Play! - PlayStation2 Emulator