Spring Thing uploaded
Adam Cadre
the 2003 Spring Thing archive, but at present I don't see it anywhere.
Presumably someone will post a followup once it lands somewhere
visible.
This year we have four games:
THE CROSS OF FIRE by Matthew Carey
INEVITABLE by TL Heinrich
MAX BLASTER AND DORIS DE LIGHTNING AGAINST THE PARROT CREATURES OF VENUS
by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
PUDDLES ON THE PATH by Anssi Raisanen
Because it seems cruel to have four games and three prizes, I've
decided to add a fourth-place prize equal to the third-place prize.
So in effect we'll have a winner, a runner-up, and a couple of
honorable mentions. (It also means that everyone who entered a
game wins back the entry fee.)
I've been really pressed for time, and so cannot guarantee that the
games are completely bug-free, but I've had a go at all of them and
they all seem solid.
Votes should be sent to vo...@adamcadre.ac (a one-time address that
will be shut down after the voting period is over). Each ballot
should include an integer score of 1 to 10 for each of the four
games, 10 being best. You must vote on all four games for your
ballot to be counted. The voting period begins immediately and
ends at noon EDT on 21 April 2003.
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Adam Cadre, Holyoke, MA
http://adamcadre.ac
Adam Cadre
> THE CROSS OF FIRE by Matthew Carey
> INEVITABLE by TL Heinrich
These are both Inform.
> MAX BLASTER AND DORIS DE LIGHTNING AGAINST THE PARROT CREATURES OF
> VENUS by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
This is TADS 3, and a version more recent than that on the archive.
Have a look at the README that's included with the game.
> PUDDLES ON THE PATH by Anssi Raisanen
This one's ALAN.
Magnus Olsson
Adam Cadre <see-website...@adamcadre.ac> wrote:
>Okay, I'm still a bit shaky on the post-GMD system: I've uploaded
>the 2003 Spring Thing archive, but at present I don't see it anywhere.
For security reasons, the "incoming" directory is write-only (except
for the administrators, of course).
>Presumably someone will post a followup once it lands somewhere
>visible.
Right now, it's at
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/unprocessed/Spring-Thing-2003.zip
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Magnus Olsson (m...@df.lth.se)
PGP Public Key available at http://www.df.lth.se/~mol
David Picton
> Okay, I'm still a bit shaky on the post-GMD system: I've uploaded
> the 2003 Spring Thing archive, but at present I don't see it anywhere.
> Presumably someone will post a followup once it lands somewhere
> visible.
The post-GMD archive works on the following system:
1. Files are uploaded to the /incoming directory, but this is
write-only (to prevent its abuse by pirate software merchants). It is
not possible to download files which are still in this directory.
2. Within a few hours, files usually get moved to the
/if-archive/unprocessed directory and may then be downloaded.
3. In due course the files get installed in their proper locations.
The Spring Thing archive is now at stage 2 now and may be downloaded
from
http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/unprocessed/Spring-Thing-2003.zip
I guess that it will end up in if-archive/games/mini-comps.
Cedric Knight
[snip]
> 2. Within a few hours, files usually get moved to the
> /if-archive/unprocessed directory and may then be downloaded.
>
> 3. In due course the files get installed in their proper locations.
>
> The Spring Thing archive is now at stage 2 now and may be downloaded
> from
>
> http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/unprocessed/Spring-Thing-2003.zip
>
...and now at stage 3, in the games/minicomps directory, but
http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/unprocessed/Spring-Thing-2003.zip
is a lot faster because of the higher bandwidth to that server.
It's where I got my copy. Woot. More IF.
(The mirrors don't update the location immediately, naturally enough,
and I notice ifarchive.biff.org.uk/unprocessed doesn't delete the files
when they *do* move, effectively keeping 2 copies).
CK
David Picton
> (The mirrors don't update the location immediately, naturally enough,
> and I notice ifarchive.biff.org.uk/unprocessed doesn't delete the files
> when they *do* move, effectively keeping 2 copies).
That's a temporary situation. The HTML mirror sites always keep in step with
the main site, so if a file is deleted or moved in the main archive it will
disappear from the mirrors within a day or so.
Some of the ftp mirror sites tend to hold on to the deleted files. This can
be useful or annoying, depending on your viewpoint!