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The sounds of Infocom, basically.
#infocom #interactivefiction #arecordeveryday

The album "Memories of Infocom" on tape and on CD, playing on my CD player.

after some extensive research, i have learned that there was never a Myst or Riven textual MUD/MUSH/MOO and i am fascinated by the prospect of it.

completely textual, player-built ages, puzzle-thick, and role-play oriented.

imagining it to be like playing Planetfall with friends

#mud #moo #infocom

Heute erstmal schön "Wishbringer" und Infocom-Adventure-laufenlass-Programm gezogen. Zeit für Textadventures.

#infocom #wishbringer #textadventure #interactivefiction

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/115963924049444355

Text-adventure archwizard @zarfeblong wants to turn the success of his amazing game-studies project "The Visible Zorker" into a monthly series of self-study exhibitions, each of which will let you poke around the guts of a different game in the #Infocom classic catalog. If this is your kind of thing, maybe sign up for the project’s Patreon! #Videogames #InteractiveFiction

@mdhughes I still have my pin.

#Infocom #H2G2 #DouglasAdams #DontPanic

A hand holding the original "Don't Panic" pinback button included with the original "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" computer game. The pin shows minor wear but is in pretty good condition for it's age. Also in frame is a passport holder printed with the cover art of the original American edition of the novel.

Should you hitchhike into the next galaxy? Or stay and drink beer?
#hhgttg #infocom

You simply type, in plain English:
>DRINK THE BEER
And the story responds:
YOU GET DRUNK AND HAVE A TERRIFIC TIME FOR TWELVE MINUTES…

INFOCOM

high literature discovered at the Double Read Book Nook used bookstore in edson, canada

it’s easy to miss this book dungeon along the transcanada highway. inside you’ll find its incredibly warm owner Bruce, who was gifted the bookstore by the previous owner after he worked there for years - often for no pay. his chubbo orange tabby Max waddles around in his harness asking visitors for treats and pets.

the second i saw the grey striped book spine i instantly knew i had found an Infocom novel. can’t wait to read this novelized treatment of Enchanter

#alberta #bookstodon #books #infocom

Top to bottom, clockwise:
Enchanter by Robin W Bailey
SeaQuest DSV the novel by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood
The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger
Waterdeep by Troy Denning

After a few months of inactivity on my blog (which has happened before), I have written a medium-sized article about how the term "interactive fiction" has changed over the years.

https://www.vintrospektiv.de/index.php/2026/01/quo-vadis-interactive-fiction/ #interactivefiction #vintrospektiv #textadventures #infocom #cyoa

Today I was in Zine-mode and printed out "The Lurking Horror" and the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual".

I planning on playing The Lurking Horror and I miss reading manuals for games + the Infocom games usually have relevant information hidden in the manuals and feelies.

The Field Manual is an interesting Artifact, that I don't feel like reading on screen.

#infocom #horror #InteractiveFicton #textadventure #Antifa #zine #diy

Game Studies Study Buddies #89 on Get Lamp

https://rangedtouch.com/2025/12/31/89-get-lamp/

#textadventures #infocom #interactivefiction

As a surprise Christmas gift to #retrocomputing, I've pushed out a new version of my #Vezza #Infocom #zmachine #interpreter. This time it's a #CP/M build, specifically for the #TRS80 models 2/12/16... on glorious 8-inch floppies. My requestor and tester Ziggystar12 was kind enough to take a photo of Bureaucracy running on a machine with the 8-inch drives; a game that could never be run on that machine before even though it was contemporary! #retrogaming #retroBattleStations

TRS-80 Model 16 running Bureaucracy using Vezza

Another fine #z80 machine is the Tiki-100, hailing from Norway and running an OS that was compatible with #cp/m 2.2, called TIKO. This one has a pixel-based display which is rendered by the character out BDOS calls, making it a little slow, but still a lot of fun to work with. The boot disks and emulator are all Norwegian which was a fun challenge. The testing process also uncovered that the emulator has a timer bug, so the timing is different to that on real hardware. In the end, it all worked rather well. I ended up using the one colour highlight available to simulate bold text, bringing my #Infocom #Inform #Z-machine interpreter #Vezza to yet another machine. Download the binary from https://gitlab.com/sijnstra1/vezza

Emulator screenshot for Nord and Bert playing on a Tiki-100

Multilink Monday 12/15/25
Another session of links from my huge For-SSB browser tab group, presented here with minimal comment in the hopes of clawing back a bit of RAM.

1. Fan patches English into Wizardry VI for Saturn.

2. The unreleased web browser for the Gamecube. (8 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsx
https://setsideb.com/multilink-monday-12-15-25/
#news #niche #retro #romhacks #DinosaurPlanet #infocom #multilink #niche #PictoChat #retro #romhacks #WizardryVI

A paper on how to reuse interpreters to get inform v3/5 games on your Apple II:
https://www.kansasfest.org/wp-content/uploads/apple_ii_inform_paper.pdf

There's just a slight issue: the linked tool used to interleave v5 story files on floppy images can no longer be downloaded.
The original URL is http://3.buric.co/interlz5-001.zip, archive.org doesn't seem to have it.

Please, tell me that someone here has it...

#apple2 #infocom #inform #ZMachine

Zork agora é código aberto… E o que descobrimos a respeito.

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/04/zork-agora-e-codigo-aberto-e-o-que-descobrimos-a-respeito/

#MundoRetro #Activision #adventure #Blizzard #CdigoAberto #GitHub #infocom #microsoft #MIT #ZIL #zork

https://massiverobot.itch.io/panic

I updated and really got it to the point for a release that isn't embarrassing. A small text adventure game (for Atari or any Z3 engine) that you can play and solve in 30min. Based on real events in Quakertown.
#punyinform #atari #infocom