PINFORIC(1)                   Contributed Software              PINFORIC(1)


NAME
       pinforic - play Infocom Inc. adventures

DESCRIPTION
       This program allows most of the popular Infocom text  adventures  to
       be  played on your system. The games must be Standard Series for the
       interpreter to function correctly; see the file INFOTBL.TXT  in  the
       product release for full details on all Infocom games.

DATAFILES
       Infocom  games  consist  of a datafile and an interpreter which exe-
       cutes the instructions contained in the data file to run  the  game.
       This program is essentially a portable datafile interpreter.

       If you have the ``Lost Treasures of Infocom'' package for the IBM or
       Amiga you should have the datafiles readily available on the  disks.
       If  you  have any Infocom game for the Macintosh then when transfer-
       ring the program  to another host  be sure to not send the Macintosh
       resource  sections  (i.e.,  don't enable the MacBinary option).  Mac
       Infocom programs without the resources are the datafiles  needed for
       use with this program.

       Transfer a datafile to a formatted MS-DOS double-side double-density
       disk (DSDD), i.e a 360 KB 5"1/4 disk or a 720 KB 3"1/2 disk. Be sure
       to copy the datafile to a freshly formatted disk so that the file is
       the only one on the floppy (the remaining space of the disk  will be
       used to save/restore games)


BUGS
       Some  of  the  data files have errors in their vocabulary lists.


AUTHORS
       The original source code for this interpreter was the  InfoTaskForce
       interpreter, version REV_C.

       Paul D. Smith <paul_smith@dg.com>
              Modified  from  ITF  REV_C  to  the  current  version.

       Jose-Maria Enguita <JENGUITA@isa00.etsiig.uniovi.es>
              Ported the interpreter to the Oric, adding an Oric interface,
       reducing the code size so that it fits in Oric memory, designing the
       memory map, adapting many code portions  to the 16-bit lcc compiler.
       This gave the first working release.

       Fabrice Frances <frances@ensica.fr>
              Hand-coded the kernel of the interpreter in 6502 machine code
       to gain further space, and a magnitude order in speed.


COPYRIGHTS
       This  pinfo  interpreter is distributed under the GNU General Public
       License (see the file COPYING in the source directory).

       Infocom, Inc. has gone out of business,  but  the  rights  to  their
       games have been sold (various times!) and are currently still owned.

       All Infocom games are still protected and as such may not be copied.

       Some  games  released  by  Infocom have a very restrictive copyright
       which states that the game may not be played on any platform  except
       that  for  which  it was sold.  Please refer to the copyright notice
       contained in your game to decide whether you will be violating copy-
       right laws before using it with this interpreter.

       Now that Lost Treasures is available there is no excuse for not pur-
       chasing the Infocom games yourself; at about $2.50 to $3.00 a  game,
       including  tax, shipping, handling, manual, maps, and hints [in LTOI
       I only] this is a bargain the likes of which you probably won't  see
       again in your lifetime! :-).

       Let's  all support Mediagenic in their release of Lost Treasures I &
       II and maybe they'll release the rest of the lost Infocom games.