Re: Infocom Games & IIgs

[tarage <tarage@bellsouth.net>]

Wow...this is awesome. One of the reasons for getting a IIGS (personally speaking) was
to write IF on it. I remembered hearing about FROTZ and the Inform compiler while
cruising around the various IF sites, but that was before a hard drive meltdown and
subsequent loss of all bookmarks...:( This is great news...thanks for the links.

----Tarage

Rubywand wrote:

> 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