InfoZip - Z-code interpreter for Psion palmtops

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Years ago I sold my Lost Treaures of Infocom. This week I found one on eBay cheaper than usual (£30). As well as the PC disks, it came with a 3.5" disk (containing InfoZip plus Cursed and Graham Nelson’s Adventure port), a Psion “2M flash solid state disk” (which must contain the Infocom game files) and an A5 printed pamphlet. It’s from Interdata Developments, a division of Lacegem Ltd. The pamphlet says that “InfoZip and InfoStat are copyright (c) 1994 JB Scattergood”.

Would anyone be interested in a scan of the pamphlet or the contents of the disk? Maybe for the archive. I definitely have no way of getting anything off the flash drive.

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Yes, I am interested in the pamphlet.

The Psion interpreter is probably the same as the one here: Index: if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/itf

https://unbox.ifarchive.org/?url=/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/itf/psion8m.zip

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I think Psion used standard CompactFlash cards? Readers for those are still readily available.

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The 5 series had CF slots. The 3 series were custom.

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Here’s the manual:
InfoZip - Infocom interpreter for the Psion Series 3-3a - Manual.pdf (2.1 MB)

I’ve created a page on IFWiki about it: InfoZip - IFWiki

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