Talk:The Lost Treasures of Infocom

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[edit] The Treasures don't work

I originally played my first infocom game, Zork 1 on an Atari 800 many years ago...loved the experience and subsequently bought and played most of the other games Infocom produced. ( I still have many of the original packages of the Atari Games!)

A few years ago I saw the compilations Lost Treasures of Infocom volumes 1 & 2 and decided to buy them to play later when the time was right. Just a few days ago I dusted them off with great anticipation and started to load disk 1, Zork 1. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered they would not work with Windows XP. Is there anyway I can load them with an Interpretor and where do I get one and how do I make it work.

I emailed Activision...but alas the grue must have devoured them all for know one replied (reinforces my feeling that they are all really in the dark over there when it comes to the Infocom franchise!) Anyway..any help would be appreciated. regards JOhn

I'm not certain, but DOSBox might do the trick to get these games running on your PC. Most of these games can be played online, though, via Java. At least two sites that host these games are linked to via the main Infocom article (at the bottom). But I know playing them on your PC is better, since you can't save your games in the Java versions. HTH — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:02, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

You can grab an interpreter like Frotz from the IF Archive; that'll let you play anything Infocom ever made, more or less. Kazrak 06:49, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

The LOST TREASURES OF INFOCOM can be played under XP using the following instructions:

For Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP:

   * Create or edit the CONFIG.NT file.   (Usually found in the WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory.)
   * Add the following line to the file:

         DEVICE=%systemroot%\system32\ANSI.SYS 

   * Save CONFIG.NT with the new line.
   * Check that a copy of ANSI.SYS exists in the specified path location.
   * Restart the computer to complete the change.

[edit] Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces

There was a later CD called Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces which included all the games except Shogun and HHGG (due to the licenses expiring) - in particular, it did include Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Also included some of the winners of the first IF contest, and some bits of email/text files from inside Infocom. I can't find an article on it - should I start it as a fresh article or append its information to this one? Kazrak 06:52, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

It's a seperate collection, start a new article for it. You'll have to create a wikilink for it first, though. Probably from the Infocom article is the best place. — Frecklefoot | Talk 01:13, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I bought a copy of that disk. I think it was called "Masterpieces of Infocom". It had almost all of the games from the two "Lost Treasures" collections, plus Leather Goddesses of Phobos, on a CD-ROM. All the documentation was in the form of PDF files. It also included the winners of the [www.ifcomp.org Interactive Fiction competition], for that year. It was the year that Uncle Zebulon was one of the winners, but I don't remember exactly what year that was. Anyway, if I can track down my copy of the disk, I'll write up that article. --209.108.217.226 16:54, 14 November 2005 (UTC)