A New Homage To Zork (As If We Needed One)

Playing Beta Testing Requests and Discussion
1

Painless Little Stupid Games #9 is now available for betatesting. “Zork LXIX: The Great Underground Hot Dog”–well, the title speaks for itself. Play the game on your interpreter from w3.cnm.edu/~mrblonde/plsg.htm.

Please let me know of any bugs at:

payyasi at hotmail dot com (symbols for words).

2

I tried to link to the Parchment version; after clicking on the name of the game from the list, I got a screen that said “Parchment
is an interpreter for Interactive Fiction, and now plays both Z-Machine and Glulx stories! Find out more.” It never opened the game itself. Am I doing something really dumb?

Thanks.

Robert Rothman

3

It works OK with me! Just a few seconds after that screen you mention Parchment loads the game and I can play with no problem (Firefox 3.6.3 under Windows 7)

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4

I’ve had trouble with it under Internet Explorer, but not Firefox, Chrome or Safari. Sorry if you can’t access the Parchment version. It’s not a big download!

5

I’ve had this problem before and assumed it was a browser thing, but if you’ve used Parchment before on [whatever browser] then I guess it must be something more mysterious…

6

I see the message a fraction of a second while the game is loading, but then the game replaces it.

7

I played the game today.
Sending a transcript and thoughts via email soon.