If I remember correctly, which is a pretty big if, whatever company owns the rights to the Zork games had them available for free download a couple of years ago. Then all I had to do was find a Palm-compatible compiler.
I seem to recall that m’self. They were all released as freeware (but only the z-code files) by Activision, in a promotional gig for… oh hell. The newest Zork title at the time. Wasn’t Zork: Zero, I don’t think…
tanstaafl, just what was The Awakening all about? I know I recognize the title, but like yourself I haven’t been to gmd, nor dusted off my interpreters in a spell, now. Matter of fact, I think the last time I played any int-fic was the last time lno started a thread on the subject, and that was the first time I’d played in about a year and a half. 
(Ah, here it is.)
Did it start with the player waking up in an open grave in a rainstorm?
/slight hijack
If anyone is interested in some more good IF games, check out this site and this site.
I’m still working my way through most of them but I’ve found some wonderful stuff. Beautiful descriptions, amazing imaginations, surreal settings, some of the best works I’ve seen. To get you started, I recommend photopia from my second link and anchorhead from the first. Sorry to hijack but it’s so rare nowadays to find people to talk to about IF’s. 
I just went over Skeezix’s link (SDMB is slow at this time of night :eek: ). Lno, I guess you’re already familiar with those two games. Might I sugget Shrapnel or I-0 from my second link? They are a little… unique… but fun nonetheless.
I-0 has somewhat adult humor so might want to keep away from the kiddies. If I was a woman and I was stranded in the desert, I would do the same thing to hitch a ride.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/
This site is a great resource for old Infocom games. It also has all three of the original Zork games available for download. This is legal, Activision currently owns the Infocom library and made the original Zorks freely available a few years ago while promoting its own multimedia games set in the world of Zork.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/interp.html is a page of the above site which links to interpreters (software engines whereby you can run these games as well as others written in the same language) for many operating systems, including the Palm Pilot.
The site hasn’t been updated in a couple years so some of the links may be broken, but it’s still a treasure-trove of information.
–Cliffy
I-0 was the first game of Adam’s that I played, and it was pretty fun. It gave rise to the “You <euphemism for masturbating> as much as the next girl, but this is neither the time nor place” in-joke which is still going strong on IFmud. (You ‘beat the Yankees’ as much as the next girl, et cetera).
I wasn’t a big fan of Shrapnel or Varicella, but 9:05 was amusing. Not much replay value, but it had a good hook to it.
Yeah, that was the one. I still like the basic idea of it but I think there were a few places where it was a bit too obscure and I really didn’t do a good enough job of letting the player know what was going on. It could certainly use some polishing.
Oops! Sorry. :smack:
This thread has inspired me to play some IF again. Any games in particular you would recommend from the current competition?
I knew the xvzzxz what ever from the game Adventure, didnt know it was also in Zork.
You are standing in a field, in front of a white house.There is a mailbox here?
Um, Hey Zork, its me Meeko, remember that game I played the other day?
You used the words "Um, Hey, its, me, Meeko, remember, that, game, I, played, the, other, and day in a way I dont understand.
um ok… “Load Game”
Loading the game proves futile.
(l)ook
You are in a helpless situation. Give up now, and thr Grue and Thief will take pitty on you. Also, got anymore Brown Sack lunches for me?
tanstaafl: T’were a decent game, I thought. As you say, a bit unpolished, perhaps, and I’d have to find my IF CD* and replay it to go into detail, but you entertained me with it, FWIW.
'Course, I’m a big fan of games like yours, Babel, Horror of Rylvania, and that no-inventory Vampire game (it was from a mini-comp, IIRC) so mebbe t’was the subject matter that won me over. 
*[sub]On preview, it dawned on me that I should clarify that: No one’s been redistributing or selling your stuff unasked. I was forced to perform a format + reinstall of my OS a long while back, and alla my IF stuff got backed up to a CD beforehand, to save me the time/bandwidth of getting it all back from the IFarchive again. (Well, obviously that’s not all I backed up, but there was enough IF to merit a seperate CD just for all my interpreters and game files.)[/sub]