The source code for three text adventures from Phoenix Software has been released by the original programmer, Paul Berker. Adventure in Time (1981), Birth of the Phoenix (1981), and Queen of Phobos (1982) were published for both Apple II and Atari, with source code for both platforms now available from the AtariAge forum. These releases […]
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Eaten by a Grue podcast reviews Infocom games
Podcast hosts Carrington Vanston of the Retro Computing Roundtable and Kay Savetz of ANTIC have joined forces to form a new podcast. Eaten by a Grue is a semi-monthly show in which the two co-hosts play and share their experiences with Infocom interactive fiction. The first two text adventure games they’ve played are Zork I: […]
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Activision releases “Lost Treasures of Infocom” for iOS
This isn’t the first z-machine interpreter for Apple’s mobile operating system, but Activision’s just-released “Lost Treasures of Infocom” for iOS is the first official way to play many of Infocom’s classic text adventures on your iPhone or iPad. Ă‚ The app is available for free from the App Store and comes withĂ‚ Zork I: The Great Underground […]
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Eamon Deluxe 5.0 Beta ships to play testers
Frank Kunze, the man behind the upcoming Eamon Deluxe 5.0, sent out the first beta to play testers early this morning. Hopefully, this means a general release isn’t too far off. You can check out Frank’s progress at the Eamon Adventurer’s Guild Online blog.
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The Birth of Infocom
Jimmy Maher over at the Digital Antiquarian is running an excellent series of articles on Infocom. Ă‚ Be sure to check out his latest, The Birth of Infocom,Ă‚ here. Ă‚ You won’t regret it.
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Juiced.GS Volume 16, Issue 1 now available
Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2011) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, is now arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes. This issue features a review of text adventure Leadlight and the larger interactive fiction industry it represents; an interview with Alan Floeter, creator of Macrosoft and The Assembler; an overview of Mac, Windows, and […]
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Get Lamp launches its own blog
Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, recently created a blog dedicated to his latest project, a documentary of text adventures. The new site, “Taking Inventory“, is “a weblog related to the production of the documentary Get Lamp and the general subject of interactive fiction.” A trailer for this film’s pending release is also available.