recent additions to the Interactive Fiction Archive
Volker Blasius
Hello again,
the following files have arrived at the Interactive Fiction Archive at
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive (Germany)
and should be available soon at the mirror sites:
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive (USA)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive (Finland)
If you are looking for a particular file in the archive, check
if-archive/Master-Index (updated daily) and
if-archive/unprocessed/ for files which aren't in the index yet.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/download-tools/amiga/RAIFBASE10.lha
A suite of Amiga ARexx scripts to maintain a database of r.a.i-f
articles. Scripts included: CreateRAIFBase creates a dbase from a
directory of newsgroup articles; SortRAIFBase sorts a dbase by time of
posting; GuideRAIFBase creates an AmigaGuide index file of all articles
in the dbase. Version 1.0, by Miron Schmidt.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/download-tools/appleII/Angel0.81b.shk
Angel 0.81 beta, an extractor for zip, lha, arc, zoo and Unix .z
archives, by Tony Marques
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/download-tools/appleIIGS/lhex.bxy
lhex version 2.1, a Sys16 program to extract files from lha
and lzh archives
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/download-tools/appleIIGS/pmpunzip2.0.shk
pmpunzip version 2.0, an extractor for zip archives
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/emulators/appleII/ApplePC_252.zip
ApplePC v2.52beta, by David Ellsworth, an Apple ][+, //e, and //c
emulator for DOS, based on Randy Spurlock's Apl2Emu version 1.
Includes boot disks for Apple II DOS 3.3 and ProDOS.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/archimedes/dungeon.spk
Dungeon, the more or less public domain version of the original MIT Zork,
version 2.7A, 11-mar-91, ported to the Archimedes by Julian Arnold
(the C source code he started with and a DOS executable are in
games/source/dungn27s.zip)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/archimedes/world.spk
World version 1.07 by J. Doug McDonald, ported to the Archimedes and
enhanced by Julian Arnold (added support for multiple save files and
synonyms for some verbs: x for examine, z for wait, etc.)
(a DOS version is in games/pc/world107.zip; source code of the DOS version
is in games/source/worldsrc.zip)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/france1.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/france1.zip.txt
a collection of French adventure games and solutions in DSK format and a
list of its contents.
I have no idea what this is; please tell me if you know.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/original/EAMONTU3.SHK
the third and final tutorial on Eamon design, taken from a quarterly
newsletter published by Tom Zuchowski and the Eamon Adventurers Guild.
ShrinkIt file for Apple II; supplied by Adam Myrow.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/dsk/prodos/eamontu1-3.zip
all three parts of the tutorial mentioned above as plain text files,
converted by Paul David Doherty
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/c64/Adult_Int-Fic_1.zip
a collection of "adult" games, compiled by Patrick Kellum, stored as a D64
disk image. Please read contained plain text file ReadMe.txt.
Contents: Farmers Daughter, Sweet Sixteen, Naughty Tales, Madam Fifi's
Whore House Adventure, Mad Party Fucker
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/c64/AdvPac.zip
a set of adventure games for the C64 and emulators, stored as a D64 disk
image. Contents: Sorcerer's Castle, Cavern Of Riches, Trip To Atlantis,
Castle Adventure.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/c64/Int-Fic.zip
a set of adventure games for the C64 and emulators, stored as a D64 disk
image. Contents:
- Adventure-1, a BASIC text adventure
- Vampyre Hunter, a two part adventure from the magazine Compute!'s
Gazette. The first part is text only, while the seond is a graphical
adventure.
- Caves of Silver, a BASIC text adventure.
- Colossal Adventure, a version of Adventure.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/c64/penguin/transylvania.zip
C64 disk image of Transylvania, by Antonio Antiochia
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/info/guidadv1.txt
Adventurist's Guide Through Textual Adventures, Part I (for novices),
by Vladimir Krstulja
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Ralph.z5
Ralph, An Interactive Sniffing by Miron Schmidt
Release 6 / Serial number 970610
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Comp96.z5
new release 1 / serial number 970626 of Lucian Paul Smith's front-end for
the 1996 IF competition games.
This is now the official prototype, which will be used in the 1997
competition. Please mail comments as early as possible to lps...@rice.edu
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/candy.z5
Candy, An Attempt at Reliving Childhood, by Rybread Celsius.
Beta One. Release 1 / Serial number 970621
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/cia.z5 - compiled game
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/cia.inf - source code
CIA Adventure. Release 1 / Serial number 961218
Ported to Inform by J. Kevin Thomas, based on a GWBASIC version by Pete
Wohlmut. The author of the original TRS-80 version is unknown.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/tryst205.z5
new release 2.05 / serial number 970629 of Tryst of Fate,
An Interactive Horse-Opera by Gregory M. Zagurski
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/wedding.z5
The Wedding, an Interactive Family Headache by Neil James Brown
Release 4 / Serial number 970602
This game came second in the Acorn User 1996 IF Competition
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/non-english/house_2.exe
House II, an illustrated Spanish text adventure by Act Software.
Self-extracting archive.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/non-english/cozumel.exe
La Diosa de Cozumel; book one (in two parts) of the trilogy
Leyendas de Ci-U-Than, an illustrated Spanish text adventure by Aventuras AD.
Self-extracting archive.
You are an archeologist, shipwrecked near the island of Cozumel, and you
must defeat its evil goddess Ix-Chell.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/non-english/templos.exe
Tulum y Coba: Los Templos Sagrados; book two (in two parts) of the trilogy
Leyendas de Ci-U-Than, an illustrated Spanish text adventure by Aventuras AD.
Self-extracting archive.
You are in the peninsula of Yucatan, near Cozumel, and you must cross the
Mayan temples of Tulum and Coba.
The third book El Misterio de Chichen Itza will be uploaded soon.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/penguin/
This is a new directory for the PC versions of games released commercially by
a company called Penguin (later known as Polarware). The current copyright
holder, Mark Pelczarski, has permitted their free distribution.
Mark has a WWW site at http://www.mcs.com/~pelczars/penguin/penguin.htm
So far there are three games here:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/penguin/crownpc.zip
The Crimson Crown (Transylvania II), by Antonio Antiochia
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/penguin/talispc.zip
Talisman: Challenging the Sands of Time, by Bruce Hoffman
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/penguin/transpc.zip
Transylvania, by Antonio Antiochia
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/adv350r4_f77.tar.gz
FORTRAN source code of the 350 point version of Colossal Cave. DECUS
release 4 (February 1994), converted to Fortran-77 (tested with f2c) by
Linards Ticmanis.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/WinFrotzR43.zip
Frotz version 2.22 for Windows 95/NT, release 4.3 of port
by Rich Lawrence
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/frotz_HPUX.lzh
Frotz for HP-UX, by Christos Dimitrakakis (olet...@geocities.com).
Needs lha or lzh to decompress.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/specification/blorb_format.txt
Blorb: A Z-Machine Resource Collection Format Standard, Version 0.9,
by Andrew Plotkin
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zip/MaxZip-160.hqx
new version 1.6.0 of Andrew Plotkin's MaxZip, an Infocom Z-code interpreter
for the Macintosh. Fat Macintosh binary for 68K Mac and PPC Macs, requires
System 7 and 1600K of free memory.
New in this version: fixes all the header bit bugs; MaxZip now announces its
capabilities correctly; fixes bug with preloaded input lines.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/mapping-tools/gmp_0414.zip
GUEmap 0.414 beta, by Christopher J. Madsen
Interactive fiction mapping for Windows 95/NT: easily connect and
reposition rooms. Includes a sample map of Westminster Abbey.
Free registration during the beta program.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/agt/agility/AGiliTy06Amiga.lha
AGiliTy 0.6 for the Amiga, ported by David Kinder. This is
an update to the previous version of Amiga AGiliTy 0.6, and now
includes a working version of Agt2Agx.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/...
Alan 2.7 has been released, replacing Alan 2.6. Since the 2.7
run-time cannot run Alan 2.6 games, the superceded 2.6 run-times
are available in the sub-directory "old".
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/alan27.readme
detailed description of ALAN 2.7
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/alan270amiga.lha
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/alan270hp.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/arun270solaris1.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/arun270solaris2.tar.Z
ALAN packages version 2.7.0 for Amiga, HP-UX, Solaris 1 and Solaris 2,
respectively.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/alan271pc.zip
ALAN package version 2.7.1 for DOS
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/alan27doc.ps.Z
documentation of ALAN version 2.7 in PostScript form
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/alan27doc.txt.Z
documentation of ALAN version 2.7 as ASCII text
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/caecho/inix.exe
a more powerful replacement for the initial databases of CAECHO, a Spanish
text adventure development system. Self-extracting archive for DOS.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/executables/Hugo23eAcorn.arc
Acorn executables of the Hugo compiler, runtime engine,
and debugger, version 2.3e, ported by Colin Turnbull
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/executables/Hugo23eAmiga.lha
Amiga executables of the Hugo compiler, runtime engine,
and debugger, version 2.3e, ported by David Kinder
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/executables/hugo23linux.tgz
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/source/hugo23linux.tgz - link
source and executables for Hugo v2.3 running under Linux (executables
are in ELF format), ported by Bill Lash. Source can also be compiled on
other Unix variants using gcc and a System-V-like curses library (known
to work under SunOS 4.1.3).
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/source/Hugo23eAmigaSrc.lha
non-portable v2.3e compiler, debugger and runtime
functions specific to the Amiga, by David Kinder
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo24beta/...
This directory contains source code and executables for Hugo 2.4 beta,
plus the files that make up the Hugo library 2.4.0. The latest non-beta
release of Hugo is 2.3e, which is available in the directory
.../if-archive/programming/hugo/
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo24beta/executables/Hugo24.arc
Acorn executables of the Hugo compiler, runtime engine, and debugger,
version 2.4 beta, ported by Colin Turnbull
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo24beta/executables/Hugo23eAmiga.lha
Amiga executables of the Hugo compiler, runtime engine,
and debugger, version 2.3e, ported by David Kinder
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo24beta/source/Hugo24AmigaSrc.lha
non-portable v2.4 beta B compiler, debugger and runtime functions
specific to the Amiga, by David Kinder
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/executables/inform613_linux_ELF.tgz
Inform 6.13 for Linux, by Bob Newell. elf binary
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/executables/inform6_HPUX.lzh
Inform 6.?? for HP-UX (compiled with UNIX64 option), by Christos Dimitrakakis
(olet...@geocities.com). Needs lha or lzh to decompress.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/library/contributions/elevator.inf
demonstration of an elevator object, implemented with Inform 6.13 Library 6/5
by Martin Braun
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/library/contributions/menus.h
a library extension providing easier and better menus, by Graham Nelson
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/manuals/designers_manual.info.tar.gz
The Inform Designer's Manual, by Graham Nelson, revised third Edition,
16 May 1997, converted to GNU Info format by Christopher J. Madsen 08jun97
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/manuals/designers_manual.tex
The Inform Designer's Manual, by Graham Nelson, revised third Edition,
16 May 1997, original TeX format
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/manuals/designers_manual.txt
The Inform Designer's Manual, by Graham Nelson, revised third Edition,
16 May 1997, converted to plain text by Stephen van Egmond and updated by
Lucian Smith
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform6/manuals/errata.txt
Errata (16 May 1997) for correcting the Inform Designer's Manual, 3rd
Ed. (4 September 1996), by Graham Nelson.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/sintac/tutorial.exe
an animated, interactive (Spanish) tutorial for SINTAC, a Spanish text
adventure development system. Self-extracting archive for DOS.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/library/contributions/
due to popular request (i.e. no response at all to Andrew Pontious'
initiative) this directory has been removed. Its contents were moved to the
programming/tads/examples/ directory.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/aztec.sol
solution to Aztec Tomb (Part 1), by Ambat Sasi
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/humbug.sol
stepwise solution to Humbug (the public domain version 5.0, May 1997),
by Paul J. Godfrey. This solution augments the game's built-in hint system,
and shows how to earn all 2000 points.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/myth.sol
solution (260 points out of 300) and map of Myth, by Ambat Sasi
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/night.sol
solution to Night at the Computer Center, by Ambat Sasi
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/station.sol
solution to The NASA Orbital Observatory Adventure, by Ambat Sasi
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/tryst.sol
solution to Tryst, by Ambat Sasi
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/tryst.step
step-by-step solution for Tryst, release 104 (970330), by Paul J. Godfrey
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/urban.sol
solution to Urban Cleanup, by Ambat Sasi
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/utilities/
another new directory, meant for general utilities. One file so far:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/utilities/
data for the Unix file(1) command to detect ALAN, TADS, and Infocom Z-Machine
games; by Allen Garvin. Displays game type and version/date/serial number.
Please put uploads into ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive
and send e-mail to Volker....@gmd.de
with a CC to dav...@monis.co.uk
describing the file(s) you uploaded.
Enjoy!
Volker and David