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Originally Posted by HarryT
First, make sure you have a WiFi connection on your iPad, then run Frotz, and tap the "i" symbol in the status bar at the top of the screen - that displays the "Settings" screen. Select "File Transfer" and tap the "Start File Transfer Server" button. Frotz will show you the IP address of its web server.
Go to your Mac, and type that IP address into your web browser. You'll see a "Frotz" web page. At the bottom of the screen there's an "Upload Story File" section. Browse to the ".dat" file for the Infocom game on your hard disk, type in a title for the game, and then click the "Submit" button to transfer it to the iPad. Repeat for each game in turn.
Works beautifully!
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Harry, I did not have good luck with my Mac Classic versions of the games (on my hard drive) - they were just Classic Map apps, and I think the .dat is probably embedded.
However - undaunted, I plunged into Google and easily located this site, from which (with some digging) I found a goldmine of old Infocom titles (not to mention the original Adventure - Colossal Cave) - in just about any format you could imagine:
http://www.ifarchive.org/
I uploaded just about every title I could think of - and am going to put them to the test this afternoon - very happy!
-- Rique