User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide
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19.8 Downloading and Playing More
Games.
If you have enjoyed the games supplied with your BrailleNote BT, you may wish to play additional
games. There is an extensive range of z-games available, many are free and some are commercial
and must therefore be purchased. The best starting place is the Internet, though you may have a
friend or relative who still has some of the older commercial games, in particular, from a company
called Infocom.
19.9 Selecting Games for Children.
Many of the games available on the Internet have been written for an older audience. That is,
usually aged 15 years and up, and several of the games are for adults only. Those supplied with
your BrailleNote BT have been carefully scrutinized, and are deemed to be appropriate for a general
audience. For younger game players, Dragon, Winter Wonderland and The Underoos that Ate New
York are the most appropriate.
If a parent, teacher or guardian does supply games to younger BrailleNote BT users, Humanware
recommends that these games are first reviewed by an adult. This can be done by playing the game,
or visiting www.sparkynet.com/spag/noframe.html (a web site that contains detailed reviews about
many z-games).
19.10 Freely Available Games.
The place to find freely available games and as a useful resource for finding out about interactive
fiction is www.ifarchive.org. This web site contains many freely available games which can be
download from http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html
Baf's site - http://wurb.com/if/ is an easier web site to find specific games, although we recommend
that children are supervised whilst visiting this site.
19.11 Commercial Games.
Z-games were invented back in the early 1980's by a company called Infocom and the games that
they wrote are still available to be purchased. Many of these games can be played on your
BrailleNote BT. A CD of all the games was produced in 1996 and can still be purchased. The CD
was called "Infocom Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces" and can be found and purchased on-line
from sites such as amazon.com. Friends or family may also have old copies that they bought years
ago.
Note: Games that expect timed responses or contain graphics, will not run correctly on your
BrailleNote BT.