Compiling Gargoyle On Ubuntu 18.10 On An Old Netbook

Posted on January 30, 2022

I decided to play the classic interactive fiction game Zork, which is available as a Hugo re-write. Unfortunately, the gargoyle-free package for Ubuntu doesn't have the (non-free) Hugo interpreter. Straight-up Gargoyle from github does, but it was a bit of a pain to compile. * TOC {:toc} ## PreReqs This... [Read More]

Tags: games interactive-fiction

Saving A Game Transcript In Gargoyle

Posted on April 22, 2021

Yeah, so this is sort of embarrassing. I play interactive fiction using [Gargoyle](http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/) every now and then, and I've been trying to figure out a way around Gargoyle's _obvious_ lack of any transcript-export feature. Turns out, you just have to type `script` into the parser. From then on, all the... [Read More]

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Missing Intro Screen For Gargoyle Interactive Fiction

Posted on March 23, 2021

_Gargoyle_, the interactive fiction interpreter, doesn't support showing the little _introduction_ screen that glulxe does; the screen with cover art and a description of the game. So I wrote my own quick-and-dirty shell script to do just that. You can use it as sort of a wrapper to start _gargoyle_.... [Read More]

Tags: games