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The Source Code For Infocom's Amazing Code-Porting Tools Has Now Been Preserved

Time Extension about 6 months ago

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 …
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Evercade Game Spotlight: Sword of Fargoal (TheC64 Collection 2)

Evercade about 1 year ago

Home computer games, such as those found on the two volumes of TheC64 Collection that we’ve published for Evercade to date, are a rather different beast to home console games. Since many of them were developed in the earliest days of the video gam …
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50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon now on Kickstarter

Retro Garden about 2 years ago

A new book, detailing the history of interactive fiction games, has launched on Kickstarter, and has smashed its funding goal within a day. 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon is the latest Kickstarter project by Aaron A Reed – …

Episode 68 - Zork

Advent of Computing about 3 years ago

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 …