the following files have arrived at the Interactive Fiction Archive at
ftp.gmd.de:/if-archive and should be available soon at the mirror sites
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/if-archive and
ftp.funet.fi:/pub/misc/if-archive
games/infocom/how-to-play-these-games
"What do the suffixes .z3 and .z5 mean, and how do I play Z-code games?"
by Gareth Rees
games/pc/bunny.zip
games/source/bunny.zip [link to same file]
The Night of the Vampire Bunnies, by Jason Dyer; somewhat a cross between a
black comedy and a B-movie. QBASIC source code.
"This is a text adventure I wrote a long while back in GWBASIC. It has been
modified to work with QBASIC, and some of the odder bugs have been fixed.
It is rather short, and has no save game. Still, I find it rather fun,
even with its flaws. Do try to be easy on it though, I was only 10 when I
wrote it."
games/pc/education/...
this is a new directory, suggested by Fredrik Ekman. 13 existing games
teaching you geography, foreign languages, or Biblical Truth have been
moved here from directory games/pc.
Fredrik also sent four new contributions to this category:
games/pc/education/agifg.zip
programming/agifg/agifg.zip [link to same file]
demo of the Adventure Game & Interactive Fiction Generator, version 2.0,
by Roger Kenner.
This is an authoring system for CALL (Computer-Aided Language Learning);
the demo consists of source code of a small sample game and a DOS
interpreter for that source code.
games/pc/education/eighty.zip
Around the World in Eighty Days, version 1.1
AGT adventure by Lloyd Holliday
games/pc/education/eli.zip
Escape from the ELI, An Interactive Adventure Game for Learners of English,
by Lowell Riethmuller. A simple AGT adventure (with suggested answers)
based on a foreign student's first day at the English Language Institute of
the University of Delaware.
This is the newest version of the game (1992); it replaced the 1989 version
that was in the archive.
games/pc/education/weekend.zip
Weekend Survival, An Interactive Adventure Game for Learners of English,
by Lowell Riethmuller. You're in your 2nd week at the ELI and must survive
a weekend in Newark.
Written with AGT, but input is reduced to 1/2/3 choices.
info/authorship-guide.v2base
programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.v2base [link to same file]
version 2.0 of Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship, by Gerry
Kevin Wilson. This base document will no longer be changed; future
additions will be published as supplements, see next entry.
info/authorship-guide.sup#1
programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.sup#1 [link to same file]
supplement number 1 (25may95) to version 2.0 of Whizzard's Guide to Text
Adventure Authorship, by Gerry Kevin Wilson.
infocom/compilers/inform/executables/Inform5.4GS.shk
programming/inform/executables/Inform5.4GS.shk [link to same file]
Inform 5.4 ported to the Apple IIGS by Evan Day.
GS executable and a couple of readme files.
infocom/compilers/inform/inform.5.5.beta/...
programming/inform/inform.5.5.beta/... [symbolic link to same directory]
this is a new, temporary directory for version 5.5 Beta of Graham Nelson's
Inform. So far there are five files here:
inform.5.5.beta.tar
source code of Inform 5.5, v1501, compiler and lirary, by Graham Nelson
inform.5.5.release.note.txt
"What's new in Inform 5.5, v1501?", by Graham Nelson
i55-386.zip
Inform 5.5 v1501/a (22may95) executable for 386+ with DOS, by Bob Newell
os2_55
Inform 5.5 beta for OS/2 2.x, by John W. Kennedy
warp_55
Inform 5.5 beta for OS/2 Warp 3.0, by John W. Kennedy
The OS/2 and Warp versions are absolutely identical, but the
Warp versions take about 30 0.000000e+00ss disk space, and will not
work on 2.x. (The 2.x versions will run on Warp, though.)
They are to be unpacked with OS/2's built-in UNPACK utility.
infocom/interpreters/zip/MaxZip-110.hqx
MaxZip version 1.1.0, by Andrew C. Plotkin. Full Macintosh application with
many features, based on Mark Howell's ZIP 2.0.7. Requires System 7 and
1600K of free memory.
infocom/interpreters/zip/MaxZip-110-source.hqx
Think C source code of MaxZip version 1.1.0, by Andrew C. Plotkin
infocom/interpreters/zip/zip8os2
ZIP, enabled for Inform 5.5 V8 for OS/2 2.x, by John W. Kennedy
infocom/interpreters/zip/zip8warp
ZIP, enabled for Inform 5.5 V8 for OS/2 Warp 3.0, by John W. Kennedy
The OS/2 and Warp versions are absolutely identical, but the
Warp versions take about 30 0.000000e+00ss disk space, and will not
work on 2.x. (The 2.x versions will run on Warp, though.)
They are to be unpacked with OS/2's built-in UNPACK utility.
infocom/interpreters/zip/zipsrc.zip
this file has been replaced by a version supporting Borland C++ in addition
to Microsoft C, by Jesse Thilo. Mark Howell's original source code is still
available as zip.sh.Z
infocom/interpreters/zip/zipsrc.zip.txt
description of the changes in zipsrc.zip, by Jesse Thilo
magazines/XYZZYnews/XYZZY3.PDF magazines/XYZZYnews/XYZZY3.TXT
Eileen Mullin's XYZZYnews magazine, issue #3, May/June 1995, in Adobe
Acrobat portable document format (.PDF) and as plain ASCII text (.TXT)
programming/adventura/adv19dv4.zip
this is a new directory for Adventura, a role-playing/interactive-fiction
game development system by Adam Lippmann, current version 1.9 release 4.
Can include sound and 256 color VGA/MCGA graphics ingame.
Unregistered version (10 room limit); registration is US$ 25.00.
DOS executables, manual, samples, and The Lost Dungeon of Khon,
a fully-functioning complete Adventura game with source.
scott-adams/say-yoho.txt
excerpts from Scott Adams' column SAY YOHO in Softside magazine 1/81 and
3/81, typed in by David Librik
scott-adams/scott.zip
ScottFree release 1.14 for DOS, by Alan Cox. Reads and executes TRS-80
format Scott Adams data files. ANSI C source code and DOS executable.
solutions/uhs/uhsdos.zip
solutions/uhs/uhswin.zip
UHS revision 95a readers (version 3.00) for DOS and Windows,
by Jason Strautman.
Due to an extremely low registration rate (US$10 !) Jason introduced a new
format that allows to hide parts of the new revision 95a hint files from
users of unregistered readers (older readers don't work, either).
Handling of older hint files is unchanged.
So far there are two files in the new format: alone3.uhs and steelsky.uhs
(Alone in the Dark 3 and Beneath a Steel Sky), both by Jason Strautman.
Please put uploads into ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive
and send e-mail to Volker.Blasius@gmd.de describing the file(s) you uploaded.
Enjoy!
Volker