Invisiclues on Infodoc site

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I was looking at The Infocom Documentation Project - Hints (the collection of Invisiclues) and I realized they’re all presented as playable Z-code files.

That was au courant twenty years ago, but it’s kind of obstructive now. Could we get “read online” links in addition to the z5 URLs? E.g.

https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Finfodoc.plover.net%2Fhints%2Fzork1.z5

(Parchment displays a “your screen is too narrow” warning, which is obviously wrong, but it’s better than trying to explain to visitors how to download an interpreter.)

Rebuilding the hint files in HTML/Javascript would be nice too, of course. But adding playable links is easy.

The project site (www.waitingforgo.com) unfortunately seems to have wiped out around 2018. Wayback has a snapshot but it doesn’t include the source code. Index: if-archive/solutions/slag/source is incomplete.

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I agree that creating these Parchment links sounds like a medium amount of straightforward work. I think the natural thing to do would be for the volunteer to create a bunch of https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Finfodoc.plover.net%2Fhints%2Fzork1.z5 links and add each one to its corresponding Infocom game’s page on IFDB.

(I’m probably not gonna do it, but it’d be great if someone did.)

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I was mostly thinking of DaveC, or whoever maintains the plover infodoc page these days.

(It’s not totally dead – I think Drew Cook got some screen-reader-friendly files added a year or so ago.)

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Somehow my brain tricked me into converting all of those Z-machine hints into HTML.

I’ll probably add links to the associated Infocom pages on IFDB later this week.

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LOL!

Yeah, the files is pretty easy to scrape. The object Tree is the menu structure and the clues are on one of the properties on the leaves. I added a scraping to unz and here are a few examples.

zork1.txt (21.3 KB)
hhgttg.txt (73.8 KB)

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Oh, well, that’s good then! Thank you.

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I saw some bugs in the conversion {-} = fixed font, {+} = normal font and multiline hints don’t show (they just show first line which usually is empty). All are from Zork 2.

Do you want issues reported on the GitHub project page?

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Yes, please.

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The hint links are all added to IFDB now. (I’m not sure if there’s anywhere else that should link to them.)

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