3 month ago
deusx : Evil Brain Jono's Natural Log - "Atul has written an awesome thing! It's a Javascript wrapper for the Z-machine -- the engine behind all the Infocom text-adventure games."
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5 month ago
deusx : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - "From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989."
wearehugh : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - holy fucking shit!
Andy Baio : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documen
cobra libre : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the 'Infocom Drive' -- a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting [via] #
Rod Begbie : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - Andy Baio has the scoop on the great text-adventure sequel that never was. Fascinating stuff. #
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12 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Frontalot Video Released (Completely) - "When it was made, Frontalot and I had a handshake deal: I shot it for him, he could release it when he wanted, and I could release it on the final GET LAMP project down the line. Well, today he released it on his website."
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15 month ago
Andy Baio : Zork 1 forum on Idle Thumbs - collectively playing text adventures with Ziggy, a Z-Machine interpreter hooked into a message board
deusx : Zork 1, take 1 - started 14/06/07 - lost 15/06/07 - Idle Forums - Excellent - collaborative Zork I play via web bulletin board
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18 month ago
Andy Baio : Homebrew text adventures on the DS - with game saving and handwriting recognition! [via]
nelson : NDS text adventures? - Looks like a nice new port of the zcode engine
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23 month ago
Andy Baio : Children as text adventure game parsers - an anecdote that made me laugh
deusx : Our 69,105th post _... - My son just turned two, but about six months ago, I told him “Sam, go into your room and get a book and bring it out here,†and he did it, and I thought at the time, “Wow, he’s as smart as an Infocom game.â€
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Zasterisk, Zork on Asterisk - voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games over the phone
deusx : zasterisk - a telephony/text adventure bridge for Asterisk and Infocom games - "Zasterisk implements a Rezrov ZIO object, allowing a user to communicate with a Z-Machine via telephony devices."
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29 month ago
deusx : PRIZM (Pretty Reliable Invisiclues for Z-Machine) - "There's a solution to every Infocom problem and a way through every Infocom maze."
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29 month ago
deusx : SourceForge.net: The Z-machine preservation project - "A clean Java 5 implementation of a Z-code interpreter."
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29 month ago
deusx : SourceForge.net: ZPlet: A Z-Machine for Java - "ZPlet is an interpreter for programs using the Z-Machine virtual machine invented by Infocom for their interactive fiction."
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30 month ago
deusx : Grand Text Auto - 3 in 7: New IF - "Leading IF author Emily Short has released two new games, and Graham Nelson, IF author and creator of the widely-used IF system Inform, has a new IF offering, too."
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32 month ago
Andy Baio : Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure - Zork meets the Washington Post
Jeremy Zawodny : Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure - Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure: oh. my. god. so fucking funny!
Rod Begbie : defective yeti: Xyzzy - GWBush as Infocom. "Oval Office You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States." #
kellan : Iraqi Invasion as Zork - "If Bush is so in the dark, why hasn't he been eaten by a Grue?" #
jimray : Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure - "> FILL SHOES You are unable to fill Clinton's shoes."
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41 month ago
deusx : ZORK & other INFOCOM Games for APPLE Macintosh - "Welcome adventurer, to the world of interactive fiction."
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