ZipCE v2.20

A text interpreter written for Windows CE.

ZipCE version 2.20

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Ridge/9604

(C)1999, by Kevin Buchanan, Mark Howell

What is ZipCE?

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In the 80's, a company called Infocom released many high quality text adventure games.

They wrote these games using an imagined 'z-machine' computer, and then wrote interpreters

for this z-machine for all the popular computers of the day. ZipCE is such an interpreter,

written for Windows CE. It is based on the excellent Zip by Mark Howell, and ported to Windows CE.

There are many new infocom type games written by other people now, using the Inform compiler.

What are some of its features?

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The main highlights of this program are its resizable proportional fonts in the text area

(vastly improves game readability), and its 8x8 font in the status area (makes games like

bureaucracy playable).

It also supports the graphics font used by Beyond Zork and has full

color support. A bug that could cause Beyond Zork to crash towards the end of the game is

also caught.

The arrow keys and function keys are supported.

Function Keys:

Windows CE Key Translated to

alt-q F1

alt-w F2

alt-e F3

alt-r F4

alt-t F5

alt-y F6

alt-u F7

alt-i F8

alt-o F9

alt-p F10

alt-[ F11

alt-] F12

These keys come in handy in Beyond Zork as shortcut keys (use 'define' to change the

shortcuts in Beyond Zork).

Save and restore is done with Martin Frost's Quetzal code, resulting in much smaller

save files.

Is it free?

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Yes! You can distribute ZipCE to anyone you want, as long as you do not get any monetary profit from

it, and include all files in the original ziped file.

Standard Legal Disclaimer

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ZipCE is provided as-is with no warranties expressed or implied. You use this software at your own risk.

This software has only been tested on a Velo 500 and an HP 620LX, so I don't know how it will run on other systems.

Acknowledgements

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Many thanks to Cameron Bowes for help testing ZipCE. I probably would not have caught half the bugs without his help.

And of course, thanks to Mark Howell for making the source for zip available.

Contacting me

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Please send questions/comments/bug reports to:

[email protected]

Kevin Buchanan