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From: dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games,rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Infocom games information (the Mac versions)
Message-ID: <358@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 91 13:31:19 GMT
References: <354@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1991Feb27.004838.19171@isc.rit.edu>
Reply-To: dbarnhar@oiscola.UUCP (David C. Barnhart II)
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In article <1991Feb27.004838.19171@isc.rit.edu> jav8106@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>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.)
>

The information is appreciated, but you should try following the entire thread
before you answer (no flames intended here).  I know perfectly well what the
creator type is on the versions of the Infocom games I have.  On EVERY single
one of their OLD versions, the CREATOR is INFO, thus disallowing the finder
from deciding properly which game to launch when a "save file" is double-
clicked.  However, the NEW versions of their games they have properly
distinguished the creator types for the games, as they should have done in the
first place.

Using a technique posted by a Mr. Trowbridge, the OLD versions can be "updated"
to the NEW versions by replacing the resources from an old game with those from
a NEW game, and properly modifying the BNDL and CODE resources.  However, to
properly update the BNDL and CODE resources, I need to know the creator types
for the NEW versions of their games.  This is because I don't own very many of
the new versions of their games.  Most of them I purchased long ago.  Since I
used a copy of Stationfall to update my old games, I don't have the creator
types for most of their new versions.


Dave Barnhart
NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division
3245 Platt Springs Rd.
West Columbia, SC  29169    email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar























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Dave Barnhart
NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division
3245 Platt Springs Rd.
West Columbia, SC  29169    email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar