User talk:DynSkeet/archive1

Welcomes

Hi, I'm not sure how to use this process exactly, but here goes. I first played an Infocom game many years ago on my Atari 800, Zork 1 and fell in love with the gendre. I subsequently bought and played almost all the titles and spent many hours of enjoyment solving puzzles and finding solution while lost in the various worlds created. I still have most of the original packaging for Atari for most of the games! A few years ago I noticed the Lost treasures of Infocom for Windows volumes 1 and 2. I bought both intending to save them for when the time seemed right to re experience the enjoyment from before. Well, the time seemed right a couple of weeks ago and with great anticipation I started to load disk 1 Zork 1. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that Windows XP would not play them or load them. I have spent the last 2 weeks searching for help. I even contacted Activision but believe they have all been devoured by Grues...which confirms my suspicions that they were always totally in the dark about the infocom concept and how to respect and market it!...they never replied. I understand there may be interpretors for XP available but where to find them and how to use them...any help would be appreciated, if you could point me in the right direction. thanks a million....rgds John..holding his trusty lantern and rusty sword!!

There is a lively community of fans who still create new works of IF (interactive fiction). Two interpreters that can run the classic Infocom games are Frotz and Nitfol. The articles for each should point you in the right direction for download links and such. The IF article in particular has several links to sites full of useful stuff, such as the IF Archive. Enjoy! -DynSkeet (talk) 14:04, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

I was able to get The Lost Treasures of Infocom working under Windows/XP as follows:

For Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP:

   * Create or edit the CONFIG.NT file.   (Usually found in the WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory.)
   * Add the following line to the file:

         DEVICE=%systemroot%\system32\ANSI.SYS 

   * Save CONFIG.NT with the new line.
   * Check that a copy of ANSI.SYS exists in the specified path location.
   * Restart the computer to complete the change.

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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:42, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Bucky Katt

The rewrite you did on the Bucky Katt article is fantastic! Great job weeding out the superfluous trivia, and making it sound encyclopedic. Stick around: we need more editors like you! Joyous 21:12, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Penny Arcade (comic)

I'd like to say you did an excellent job of cleaning up the article. --Poiuyt Man (talk) 12:44, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Infocom

Hey, Skeet. I noticed you've been editing quite a few Infocom articles. Your edits have really improved the articles. Since you seem to be an Infocom fan, if you haven't already, I suggest you read Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.. It's an excellent report on Infocom from its beginnings down to the smoking embers Activision left behind. I suggest the full PDF version of the report. If you get the chance, enjoy! :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 17:03, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi DynSkeet...not sure how to use this process.but I'll try 'editing' a related article...I started enjoying Infocom games on the Atari 800 and played most of the games..still have the Atari originals. I bought some time back the Lost Treasures, volumes 1 and 2 and dusted them off a few days ago to play again...but woe is me, with an XP Windows system, they wont load...any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks a lot...John Hi, yeah, that guy was banned within a minute...but he'll be back tomorrow. I think this time is some sort of record though, he was banned after only about 30 edits, which is impressive since we know he's using a bot. Oh well...you can report stuff like that on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress, but because he's using a bot and tries to make hundreds of edits at once, it's very easy to spot and someone will probably have dealt with it already. But you can report it there anyway just in case. Adam Bishop 17:27, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Infocom

Zork articles were my first edits on Wikipedia. I started out creating AFGNCAAP, Zork timeline, Zork calendar, and Zork magic. I'd like to bring Infocom to featured status at some point--probably not till at least the summer. --brian0918™ 19:41, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Maybe next we should create video game infoboxes for the games. --brian0918™ 17:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

See the example at Zork Grand Inquisitor, and the blank code to copy-and-paste is at the bottom of Template talk:Infobox CVG. We can just stick the game box cover pic in the infobox template. --brian0918™ 17:52, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It'd probably be easier to just copy and paste the ZGI code and replace the proper things. --brian0918™ 17:54, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I can do the Zork series. I'm not too familiar with most of the other games made by Infocom (except for Infidel and maybe a couple others). --brian0918™ 17:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Charter Convention

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infocom stuff

Your Infocom additions are fantastic. Thanks a whole lot for contributing. -- — I. Neschek | talk 17:45, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

H-L2 FAC?

Could you please comment on the talk page of Half-Life 2 to my proposal? Thanks. Thunderbrand 00:59, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Tribes 2

Thanks for the advice on the T2 editing. Ill do my best from now on. Attacker99

Change for Wikipedians from Florida

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Assassinanny 911

Your changes to the "Assassinanny 911" storyline was a lot more than a minor copyedit, as you labeled it. It was a complete rewrite. It would be considerate to label it as such. --Boradis 05:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, no problem. --Boradis 23:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Go Team Venture

Thanks! Actually-I owe you a big thanks just as much. I suppose while I usually make these articles up in the first place, they have horrid quality at times-I've seen the major edits and additions you do to several episodes and characters, and frankly, I consider that just as important to the project, if not more so.

Give me a bit of time, work's honestly killed me from any new articles beyond the henchmen lately but I'll try to add in Molotov and Limb soon. Umbric Man 12th July 2006.

Happy B'day

It might not be a power of two, but at least it's still a square. Hope you're having a great birthday! --Allen Holt 17:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Heh, I stumbled across you accidentally — I looked at the PFHS page and noticed that you'd edited it right after I did. I'm not sure anyone else would've immediately known it was you, but yeah, it wasn't hard for me to suss out.  :) I'd love to know what's going on in SkeetLand if you get a chance — if you've still got the old email address on file, that'll still work, or allen at do-or-do-not dot com works, too. Hope your birthday was fantasic and everything else is going well! --Allen Holt 13:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)