Add blorbs for Sherlock and Lurking Horror that contain story + sound #15
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I'm not sure this is the right place to file this PR, but I think there may be no better place to file it.
The six games on Infocom Frotz are all tricky to play offline because they require two separate files: a Z-code file, acquired from Zarf's site, and a blorb file, from IF Archive. It requires finicky work to set up interpreters to run a game with two files; many interpreters simply don't support that.
On IFDB, for each of these games, we have at least these four external links:
It would be much simpler if we could link to a single blorb file containing everything the user needs. Then, users could just open the file in their favorite interpreter, and it would Just Work.™
But, where would we host it?
I think the answer might be to host the "story blorbs" here, so that's what I'm doing.
I used https://github.com/cspiegel/snavig to generate these blorbs, like this:
They work fine in
sfrotz
, and I think they would work fine in Infocom Frotz, if I bothered to wire them up, but I didn't.I didn't wire them up because I'm only doing these two games for now, the ones with sound and not graphics, and it would be a hassle to change the template just for two games out of the six.
I didn't do the four graphical games because when I tried to use
snavig
to create a blorb with graphics, the resulting blorb didn't work in Frotz. cspiegel/snavig#2 That bug appears to be due to bugs in Frotz, which may or may not get fixed any time soon.But, if we merge this PR, I can at least link to these two files from IFDB, and this, I claim, will make it much easier to play these games.