Zinc Help
Henok Bekele
Mike Colley
Ben Jemmett
Sam Jervis
Copyright © 2002, 2003 by the authors
Table of Contents
Introduction
An Introduction to Interactive Fiction
How Does Multiplayer Zinc Work?
Installing and Running Zinc
Prerequisities
Installing Zinc
Quick Start
The Game Launcher
Managing the Games List
Importing a New Game
Removing a Game
Starting a Game
Handling Network Connections
Starting a Server
Starting a Network Game
Stopping a Network Game
Connecting to a Remote Server
Disconnecting from a Remote Server
Joining a Network Game
Game Options
Playing Adventure Games in Zinc
Controlling the Game
The Default Game Console
Playing Interactive Fiction
Common Commands in Interactive Fiction
Using the Map
Basic map features
Loading and Saving Maps
Sub-maps
Saving and Loading
Playing Multiplayer Cooperative Games
Playing Multiplayer Games
The Multiplayer Game Window
Using Chat
Voting and Hotseating
Using the Help Browser
Launching the Help Browser
Navigating the Help System
The Headless Server
Starting the Headless Server
Using the Headless Server
Expanding Zinc
The Plugin Manager
Creating Zinc Plugins
License
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Jetty
The Apache Software License
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