Here is the beginning of a page I'm in the process of creating to give accessible games for the mac for those of us using voiceover. Softcon will have games posted here of it's own shortly, but there will be freeware and gpl programs here as well once we've determined how well they work with voiceover, and made any required modifications to get them to behave if necessary.
The first game we're posting here is a z5 interpreter called zip.
This is the one I liked best when I used dos/linux to play my infocom games,
so here it is for the mac.
zip
is a barebones interpreter, but it does the job nicely.
jzip is another interpreter that can handle z5 games, though this one appears to work worse with vo than zip does. (I'll dig around in the source to see if I can figure out why) But, at any rate, here it is.
If you'd like a program that's fully integrated into the mac gui, then check out zoom at http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/ifarchive/infocom/interpreters/zoom/
It works with Zcode games, but although it claims to work with tads and other formats, I've had no luck getting these games to work properly. Perhaps someone else who has gotten it to behave could let us know how to do so.
Muddle is a mud client, it doesn't have a lot
of features, but it does do basic automatic replies to received text,
aliases, site specific macros, and more.
I used this nder linux, and liked it, so compiled it here for osx. It's
a terminal app, and this is the universal version, so enjoy.
world.zip
is a text adventure game with a scifi setting.
Code has been modified to work on mac os as well, and is included in the
archive.
Battle Star is a text adventure that takes place on the battlestar galactica. Your first task is to grab as much loot as you can, and get off the ship before it blows up. There's a limited amount of moves for this to happen, so you're likely to need several tries before you get it right. This game works well with voiceover under leopard in terminal mode, speaking all the prompts and not skipping while reading screen output.
hotel is a game of strategy. In this game, you need to take over the largest portion of the playing grid with the most hotels, shares split, and stocks are combined to gain money. The player with the most at the end wins. Paranoia is a text game, where you need to solve the mystery of the master retailer, and bring him to justice (or maybe not) Omega is a game in the style of nethack/rogue. Explore the world, gain treasure, and more.