Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin.Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom's code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew …

https://hlabrande.itch.io/... Author:After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is th …

Hi all, first post Been a lurker for a while. I have my family TRS-80 Model 4P, which until recently, has been working pretty well. Upgraded the PSU with Jay Newirth's awesome replacement PSU, added a hi-res card from Ian Mavric (along with a FreHD), an …

Microsoft has completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, including the complete library of Infocom's text adventure games. (The post "Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard" appeared first on A2Central.com.) …

Hi all, I'd like to introduce a murder mystery game my wife and I have been working on.Artful DeceitThree weeks ago, you received an envelope. It had been pushed under your office door and was marked in ornate script with the words, “Of Greatest Urgency …

I have finalized a new adventure called 'The Forgotten Pyramid'. This is a text-based adventure game using Infocom type interpreters and coded in Inform6 which allows the game to be ported easily to many platforms. I have launched a Kickstarter project …

Hi everybody. I hope it's ok to talk about this in here.OceanThrill Murder Mystery is a game my girlfriend, a fellow coder (and talented musician) and I are working on and that has seen a, thus far, very successful Kickstarter campaign which will now soon …

I must be doing something wrong. My goal is to make a playable 400K 3.5 inch disk of the Infocom Trinity game for my original Mac that has 512K ram. I've dowloaded the disk image for the Trinity game and can run this disk image on mini vMac, but when I tr …

My girlfriend, a friend who isn't a very talented musician and I are working on a new interactive fiction game with some graphics.The game itself will release on several 8- and 16 bit platforms, as well as modern computers.The Amiga is the main target, si …

As we enter a month which is a celebration of all things queer in society, we at Antstream think its important to acknowledge the games which have treated the LGBTQ+ with kindness and respect. This isn’t a comprehensive list of retro gaming’s queerest …

Make sure you have some extra batteries for your lamp, this episode we are delving into the depths of Zork. Written in 1977 Zork would quickly become the epitome of text based adventures, pushing aside all competitors. A lot of this comes down to it's sim …

Hello Boys & Ghouls and welcome to a Spooktacular episode of RGDS, where the Crypt Keepers  Paul Driscoll and Gordon King take you kicking and screaming through some ghoulish retro Halloween games to enjoy this this time of year. So grab yourself a nice …