There is a new version (Release 2) of THEATRE out. It is essentially a
bug fix. It are no new locations or puzzles or anything like that.
It has been upgraded to the new version of the library which has probably
fixed a few bugs and introduced a few more :-).
Most annoying bug would be the Remove verb. You could remove the statue's
arms from the statue (obviously a bug with humourous results) as well as
removing the pistol from another enemy (a bug but not very obvious).
Anyway, on with the official release notice...
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Cave Rock Software Ltd is pleased to announce a new release of...
THEATRE
An Interactive Night of Horror
by Brendon Wyber.
Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old
buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted
for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some prospective buyers,
you discover that you have left your pager behind. You quickly stop off
there, on your way out for the evening, to pick it up. However, at night,
you soon learn, the theatre's denizens are more than just rats and spiders.
Now you find yourself trapped in a world of secrets and of shadows, while
a century-old evil awakens to hatch her nefarious plans. In order to
survive the horror and insanity, you must use all your wits and cunning,
and, to escape, you must solve the dark secret of the THEATRE!
HOW TO GET THEATRE
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THEATRE is a text only adventure game, similar to those produced by Infocom.
It is freely distributable. You can get a copy of it via ftp from the
IF-archive at ftp.gmd.de.
It is currently in the /incoming/if-archive but it will be moved to the
/if-fiction/games/infocom directory. The file will be called "theatre.z5".
Make sure you download it as binary.
Theatre is written using the standard file format designed by Infocom. In
order to play it you need the ZIP interpreter (not to be confused with the
(pk)zip compression program). There are several of these available in the
archive for most machines in the /if-fiction/infocom/interpreters/zip
directory. The MS-Dos version is called zip203.zip while the apple macintosh
version is MaxZip-140.hqx.
VIA THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB
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To get THEATRE from the World Wide Web (using the ftp protocol) get the
following pages.
To get the THEATRE game file...
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-fiction/games/infocom/theatre.z5
To get the MS-Dos interpreter program...
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-fiction/infocom/interpreters/zip/zip203.zip
To get the Apple Macintosh interpreter program...
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-fiction/infocom/interpreters/zip/MaxZip-140.hqx
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Brendon Wyber, Cave Rock Software.
P.O. Box 22-488, Christchurch, New Zealand.
brendon@caverock.co.nz