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From: jav8106@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Doctor FORTRAN)
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Subject: Re: Infocom games information (the Mac versions)
Summary: The information you seek should be in your hands . . . .
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Date: 27 Feb 91 00:34:17 GMT
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In article <354@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM>, dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM writes...

-Now I have this question:  Does anyone have a list of the actual "creator"
-types for all the games?  The "creator" is a 4 letter or digit code that
-allows files to be associated with their application, so they can be
-properly recognized and launched by the finder.
- 
-For example Zork I (the new version) has the creator of "INZ1", Zork II's
-creator is "INZ2", etc.  I have quite a few of their old games that I played
-on my 512K (unenhanced) instead of on my IIcx.  I have now upgraded them to
-play correctly on my IIcx, but I had to make up creator types for them.  If
-anyone has (or could get) a list of the real creator types for the various
-Infocom games, I would appreciate it.

Sorry, I don't have a list of the creators for any of the games. _You_ should
have this information already. With ResEdit, open the BNDL resource. (Usually
there will be only one of them.) With few exceptions, the listed "Owner" of
the BNDL is the creator. (If it isn't, having the correct creator might not
help much, anyway.)

Now, of course, you should be working from a copy of your file. If your copy is
on an otherwise blank floppy, you can restore the application's icon, as well
as the icons from files generated by the program, by following these steps:
First, make sure that the Bundle flag is set. In ResEdit, select (but don't
open) the application (after you've made your changes). Get Info . . . the
application, and make sure the Bundle checkbox is checked. Click on OK, and
quit ResEdit (or go to Finder, if you're running Multifinder). Drag the disk
into the trash, and hold down the Command and Option keys as you re-insert the
floppy.

You'll get a dialog asking you if you want to rebuild the desktop file. Answer
yes, and, when the disk mounts the custom icon (rather than the generic one)
should be there. Now, try everything out, and after you're satisfied that
everything's ok, copy the application back to your main disk. There, the
Desktop file will be updated, not rebuilt (you usually wish to avoid rebuilding
the desktop file on a hard drive if you can avoid it).

Happy ResEditing!

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