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From: dg@pearl.tao.co.uk (David Given)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:31:57 +0100
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In article <9admjp$7735m$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>,
	jfrancis@dungeon.engr.sgi.com (John Francis) writes:
> In article <x0ae5x1ss4.fsf@ee.ryerson.ca>,
> Luis Fernandes  <elf@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>>It is possible to play the Infocom game as a Java applet on Douglas Adams'
>>web site; last time I looked...
> 
> Well, yes.  Provided you are prepared to play the entire game
> straight through, without saving any intermediate positions.
> Not really a viable strategy for most games, and definitely
> a bad idea for a game as contorted as Hitchhikers.

OTOH, 10 seconds perusal of the HTML source will give you the URL for the
Z-machine file that actually implements the game. Download this, and you
can play it in your favourite Z-machine terp (I use Frobnitz on my Palm
Pilot).

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