recent additions to the Interactive Fiction Archive
Volker Blasius
Hello again,
the following files have arrived at the Interactive Fiction Archive at
ftp.gmd.de:/if-archive (Germany)
and should be available soon at the mirror sites:
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/if-archive (USA)
ftp.achilles.net:/wuarchive/doc/misc/if-archive (Canada)
ftp.io.org:/pub/mirrors/if-archive (Canada)
ftp.funet.fi:/pub/misc/if-archive (Finland)
ftp.dstc.edu.au:/pub/if-archive (Australia)
If you are looking for a particular file in the archive, check
if-archive/Master-Index, it is updated daily.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/betas/ZipInfinity.120b2.cpt.bin
new version 1.20 Beta 2 of ZIP Infinity, Matthew Russotto's Mac Infocom
interpreter. His description:
"ZIP Infinity 1.2 is a full-featured Infocom interpreter for the
Macintosh. Based on Mark Howell's ZIP 2.0, and updated for greater
compliance with Graham Nelson's 0.2 specification, ZIP Infinity can play
any V1-V5 or V8 Infocom or Inform game. Support for sound, multiple fonts,
user-selectable screen size, and the Beyond Zork graphics font is now
included. Still present is the original 1-window interface. And Zip
Infinity should work under System 6 and with 68000-based Macintoshes
(though I have no such machines to test with).
Note that you may need to increase the memory allocation for large V8
games.
Report bugs to russ...@pond.com."
This file replaces betas/MacZIPinf.68k.120b1.cpt
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/betas/inform-mode.el
Inform mode for GNU Emacs, by Gareth Rees
beta-test version 0.7 (12apr96)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/download-tools/mac/unz512x.hqx
UnZip 5.12 (28aug94) by Info-ZIP, decompresses .zip files an a Macintosh.
We had a problem with both ZipIt 1.2 and 1.3 with one particular file (not
from the IF-archive): they both decompressed the file without error or
warning, but the resulting Mac executable was corrupt.
UnZip 5.12 processes this file correctly.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/*.dsk
all of these files have been deleted; they are superseded by the complete
Eamon Adventurer's Guild collection maintained by Tom Zuchowski.
You find a copy of the complete collection under
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/original/EAMONRV4.SHK
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/original/prodos/EAMON237.SHK
these two files were damaged and have been replaced by good copies
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Gumshoe.z5
Gumshoe, An Interactive Investigation by Mike Oliphant
Release 1 / Serial number 960331
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/spirit.readme - description
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/spirit.z5 - game file
new release 2 (02apr96) of SpiritWrak, An Interactive Fantasy Adventure
by Daniel S. Yu
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/frust.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/frust.zip - link to same file
new version 1.02 (960115) of Frustration, by Jim MacBrayne
machine independent .gam file and TADS runtime for DOS
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/hgrail.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/hgrail.zip - link to same file
new version 1.01 (960227) of The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne
machine independent .gam file and TADS runtime for DOS
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/mission.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/mission.zip - link to same file
new version 1.02 (960331) of The Mission, by Jim MacBrayne
machine independent .gam file and TADS runtime for DOS
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/softporn.zip
this file has been replaced by an official, up-to-date version (still
called 2.3) on the author's request. He told me that Sierra On-Line holds
the copyright to this game, but that he may distribute it as shareware.
If you want to know more about the history of this game, check out his web
page at http://www.bridge.net/~psycho/softporn.html
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/softporp.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/softporp.zip - link to same file
another version of Chuck Benton's Apple II SoftPorn Adventure (which later
became Sierra's Leisure Suit Larry I - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards),
rewritten by Paul Schlyter in Turbo Pascal 3.0 for CP/M and DOS.
DOS executable and Pascal source code.
(that's why I called it softporP: Paul's Pascal version :-) )
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/wormhole.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/wormhole.zip - link to same file
Wormhole: The Beginning release 1.0, a TADS (and WorldClass) introductory
(meaning promotional, I think) adventure by Philip Dearmore.
Machine independent .gam file and DOS executable.
This game is free; sending $15 to the author buys you the sequel
Wormhole: A Watery Grave.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/lambs.gam
Silence of the Lambs, An Interactive Horror.
The author prefers to stay anonymous, and I can understand him! :-)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/pastime.zip
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/tads/pastime.zip - link to same file
Past Tense, An Interactive Intrigue by Dave Nault
TADS source code and compiled game file
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/tads-gamelist2.txt
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/info/tads-gamelist2.txt - link to same file
new, up-to-date version 1.1 (25mar96) of The (Other) TADS Game List,
by Gerry Kevin Wilson and Paul David Doherty
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform/utilities/infoclue.zip
Graham Nelson's Infoclues compiled for DOS by Bonni Mierzejewska;
source code, executable, and description.
Infoclues converts UHS-format hint files to an Inform include file which
runs an Invisiclues-style menu of hints.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform/library/contributions/adhints/
this is a new directory for the Adaptive Hints library release 0.92a
(25mar96 + bug fix 17apr96) for Inform, by Mike Phillips. Contains the
library Module AdHints.h, documentation, and a sample game with adaptive
hints (Graham Nelson's Balances, source code and compiled game file).
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/Frotz101Std02Amiga3.lha
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/Frotz101AmigaSrc.lha
new release 3 of David Kinder's port of Frotz 1.01 to the Amiga
Amiga executable and source code
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/hints/uhs/lurking.uhs
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/uhs/lurking.uhs - link to same file
UHS hint file for The Lurking Horror, by Kurt Kalata
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/adl/DarkArmy.tar.Z
Dark Army, an R-rated, unfinished game for ADL, meant as a programming
example, by Miron Schmidt.
Source code only; needs calyx2.adl (in same directory) to compile.
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/agt/aa.zip
AGT Author's Aid version 2.3 by Douglas C. Rogers
AA takes an adventure description from menu-driven screens and converts it
to syntactically correct AGT compiler input
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/arun261mac.sit.hqx
new release 2.6.1 of the ALAN interpreter package for the Macintosh
this replaces file arun2_5_1mac.sit.hqx
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/arun262pc.zip
new release 2.6.2 of the ALAN interpreter package for DOS
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/RAIF-POOL.announce
announcement of Jacob Solomon Weinstein's new IF language RAIF POOL
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/
this directory tree now contains version 2.1 (last update 16apr96)
of Kent Tessman's programming language Hugo.
Executables of the previous versions have been moved to directory
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/hugo/old/
Kent's games
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/hugo/spur.hex - compiled game file
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/hugo/spur-s.zip - source code
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/hugo/colossal.hug - source code
have also been updated to Hugo version 2.1
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/examples/extend.t
an extension set for adv.t by Neil deMause, 26mar96.
Here's part of his description:
"I've compiled a collection of modifications to the basic ADV.T library
that make programming a lot less painful. (Okay, *some* programming a lot
less painful.) Included are many new verbs, a couple of new object classes,
some useful functions, and a couple of fixes for parser oddities in ADV.T."
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/rec.arts.int-fiction/feedback-guide.txt
Jacob's Guide to Giving Constructive Feedback on IF,
by Jacob Solomon Weinstein (from his posting on r.a.i-f)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/lostny.sol
solution to Lost New York, by Russ Bryan
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/solutions/shelby.step
revised release 2 of Paul Godfrey's step-by-step solution to
The Light: Shelby's Addendum version 1.1
Please put uploads into ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive
and send e-mail to Volker....@gmd.de describing the file(s) you uploaded.
Enjoy!
Volker