> As a present to my girlfriend >for her birthday I would like some devlopment tools for the IBM so I
>could make example of interactive fiction on the same presention quality
>as a Infocom production. I'm also trying to find a FAQ list for this
>newsgroup.
Sean,
FTP to ftp.gmd.de\if-archive
This site has just about everything there is to be had regarding
interactive fiction.
Regarding tools, I highly recommend TADS. It's a damn fine piece of
software which lets you create Infocom style games pretty easily.
C. A. McCarthy