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by DrPaul
Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:29 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Re: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

Ok.  The Librarian: Quest for the Spear is over and now they're running The Librarian: Return to King Soloman's Mines.  I checked TV Guide to see when these will be repeated again and it came up empty for the next two weeks.  Sorry.

I gotta say, I liked the first one (Quest for the Spear) the most.
by DrPaul
Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:57 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Re: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

The original Librarian (from 2004) is on TNT right now!
Check listings.  It'll probably be on again soon.
by DrPaul
Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:22 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Re: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

I hope I'm not too late, but this is a reminder that The Librarian is on tonight on TNT.  Check your listings.
by DrPaul
Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:50 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: The forgotten sequel
Replies: 17
Views: 26490

Re: The forgotten sequel

It's very easy to put an introduction at the beginning of the game.  Near the bottom of the sample code is an "Initialize" routine which includes a print statement.  You can print as long an introduction as you want right there in the print statement.  Remember to keep everything within th...
by DrPaul
Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:54 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: The forgotten sequel
Replies: 17
Views: 26490

Re: The forgotten sequel

The absolutely easiest way to set up you compiler is this:   Create a directory where you want to work.  In that directory put the compiler (infrmw32.exe) and the library files (English.h, Grammar.h, linklpa.h, linklv.h, Parser.h, parserm.h, Verblib.h, verblibm.h) in the same directory. It's also a ...
by DrPaul
Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:45 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: The forgotten sequel
Replies: 17
Views: 26490

Re: The forgotten sequel

Here is some sample code that shows how to build three locations, how to connect them to each other, light them and place objects.   You can build a substantial world with just these features.  You can wander around, explore, take and examine objects and drop them if you like.  Later, we'll talk abo...
by DrPaul
Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:39 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: The forgotten sequel
Replies: 17
Views: 26490

Re: The forgotten sequel

Do you have any recommendations as to a site with basic Inform programming instructions for utter beginners? There are several websites that have tutorials for beginning Inform.  Probably the best beginner's guide is "The Inform Beginners Guide" by Roger Firth and Sonya Kesserich.  It is ...
by DrPaul
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:54 am
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: The forgotten sequel
Replies: 17
Views: 26490

Re: The forgotten sequel

James and Siriusstar- You both have described fairly ambitious storylines.  So ambitious, it seems unlikely that these could be produced as 3D graphic adventures without the resources of a well-funded production company/game developer. It seems to me, in order to bring these ideas to life you have t...
by DrPaul
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:32 am
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Re: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

Here's yet another recent Zork sighting: IN the newly released movie by Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers", Sean Moran (who played the Mad Monk in Nemesis) plays a waiter.  So now, we all gotta go see Flags of Our Fathers, too.   Let's see if I can find some more recent stuff.  Searchi...
by DrPaul
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:12 am
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Re: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

Hey, I noticed that Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin are in the Librarian, too.
by DrPaul
Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:58 am
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Re: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

I didn't see the first Librarian, so I looked it up on IMDB.com (Internet Movie Data Base).  From the description, it sounds like fun, and certainly sounds Zorkish.  The description of Flynn Carsen sounds like a Bruce Campbell character. With regard to The Prestige, there are many plot twists and so...
by DrPaul
Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:17 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting
Replies: 29
Views: 34240

Malveaux (from Nemesis) sighting

Hey Guys, I went to see "The Prestige" a couple nights ago.  Very cool movie, but more about that later. Anyway, there was an actor in it who played a character named Merrit who looked and sounded a lot like the guy who played Bishop Francois Malveaux (in the Zork Nemesis Monestary).  So I...
by DrPaul
Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:37 am
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: Coincidence, or something more?
Replies: 1
Views: 4767

Coincidence, or something more?

I watched the 1983 movie War Games today.  It may be too old for some of you guys, but was kind of cool to see some of the stuff that qualified for state-of-the-art at the time.  Things like 1200 baud modems with accoustic couplers, monochrome, text-only computer screens, 8 inch floppy disks and hac...
by DrPaul
Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:19 pm
Forum: Non-Zork Chat
Topic: Downtime...
Replies: 10
Views: 13910

Re: Downtime...

"I've finally learned to stop uninstalling the Zork games from my computer."

That's funny.
by DrPaul
Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:48 pm
Forum: Zork Chat
Topic: About the Awful Abtruse AFGNCAAP
Replies: 18
Views: 21468

Re: About the Awful Abtruse AFGNCAAP

What I loved so much about the games was the sense that the adventurer was me and I was actually doing all those things. Besides the fact that I admire Siriusstar's descriptions, I'm not sure that it makes sense for the the Grand Inquisitor adventurer to be female.  The reason is that when we're in ...