Re: Infocom Games & IIgs

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jake Wildstrom writes ...
> 
> In article <3952F5C6.AF47BD05@swbell.net>,
> Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> >     Since you have a IIgs, you may want to check out the collections of
> >Infocom and Infocom-style games available on the net. Nearly all of these are
> >set up to work with an interpreter (also available) which makes playing the
> >adventures more convenient.
> >
> >     A good starting point for your explorations is the GS WorldView October
> >1999 issue at ...
> >
> >http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/index.html .
> 
> An even better starting place is ftp.gmd.de, in the /if-archive directory, or
> lurking around the newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction. The gmd archive's kind of
> a one-stop shop for almost all your interactive fiction needs. The few things
> not available there are under copyright -- in particular, the Infocom games.
> Zork I, II, and III are available for free from Activision. Hitchhiker's Guide
> to the Galaxy is available from Douglas Adams's website. All the others except
> Shogun are available in Activision's "Masterpieces of Infocom" collection.
> Shogun is no longer available (whether this is unfortunate or not depends on
> your perspective. It wasn't a very good game).
> 
> BTW, there are lots of really good pieces of IF written since Infocom's fall.
> Most of them are freeware and on the gmd archive.
 ....

     The Interactive Fiction Archive ( ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/ ) is a great
resource for Text adventuring. A bunch of adventures from there were converted to
Apple II files for use with the IIgs Big Red interpreters-- seem to work fine with
Frotz!/IIgs, too. They are listed with links (and credit to the IF archive) in the
August and September 1999 issues of GS WorldView-- e.g. ...

http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Aug/InfocomTypeGames.htm 

All of the Infocom and Infocom-style game pages in various GSWV issues are linked
together; so, it's easy to hop from one page to any other page.



Rubywand