zork zero - blorb files

Alexandre Detiste alexandre.detiste at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 09:53:51 UTC 2016


Hi Stephen,

I'm working on adding support for Zork Zero.

I sumble on the graphic ressources:
      - zork0.cg1
      - zork0.eg1
      - zork0.mg1

>From the Zoom manual in /usr/share/doc/zoom-player/zoom.html:

"Zoom can not read the old Infocom-style resources - however, Blorb versions of all the resources
for the old Infocom games can be obtained from the IF-Archive, located at http://www.ifarchive.org."

http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXmediaXblorb.html

ZorkZero.blb [07-Nov-2001] The graphics files for Zork Zero, converted to PNG and packaged into a Blorb file by Kevin Bracey.

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Wouldn't it be better to handle this resource decoding ourselves instead of relying on some third-party undocumented external download ?

http://ifarchive.jmac.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/specification/blorb-infocom-extension.txt

Alexandre



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