recent additions to the Interactive Fiction Archive


Fri, 21 Jul 1995 13:26:50 GMT

Hello again,

the following files have arrived at the Interactive Fiction Archive at
ftp.gmd.de:/if-archive and should be available soon at the mirror sites
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/if-archive and
ftp.funet.fi:/pub/misc/if-archive

games/amiga/Severed_Heads.Readme
games/amiga/Severed_Heads1.lha
games/amiga/Severed_Heads2.lha
Severed Heads, a futuristic text/graphics adventure for the Amiga with
1 MB RAM, by Michael Zerbo. Description and disks 1 and 2, respectively,
of diskette version.

games/infocom/curses.z5
Graham Nelson's game Curses has been upgraded to release 15, serno 950711

games/infocom/freefall.z5
Free Fall, an interactive Z-code demonstration by Andrew C. Plotkin.
Source code to this game is in
infocom/compilers/inform/examples/freefall.inf
but don't look there before you played the game; it will spoil the fun!

games/infocom/how-to-play-these-games
updated information file by Gareth Rees: What are Z-code games and what do
I need to play them? New topics are MaxZip and Z-code versions 7 and 8.

games/infocom/theatre.z5
THEATRE, An Interactive Night of Horror, by Brendon Wyber

games/pc/alice.zip
The Adventures of Alice Who Went Through the Looking-Glass and Came Back
Though Not Much Changed, by Douglas A. Asherman.
This is an AGT compiled version of the original GAGS game, which won the
GAGS game writing contest 1986. Source code of this game has been in the
archive for some time under games/source/gags/alice.zip and is now renamed
to alice-s.zip.

games/pc/dnd27a.zip
DnDBBS, the Dungeons and Dragons Bulletin Board System version 2.7a,
by Erik J. Oredson. A text only D&D game that can act as a BBS of its own,
be run as a door program under another BBS, or just be played through local
login. DOS executable and documentation.

games/pc/gfge.zip
Golden Flutes and Great Escapes! Four games from the book "Golden Flutes
and Great Escapes: How to Write Adventure Games for the Apple Computer" by
Delton T. Horn, translated from Apple BASIC to C by Christopher E. Forman.
The titles in this collection:
The Golden Flute - a fantasy adventure
The Great Escape - a maze game
Treasure Hunt - a search for buried pirate gold
Mars - a quest for treasured relics on the red planet
Only the last title is a genuine text adventure, the others are multiple
choice games.

games/spectrum/...
this is a new directory for games for the ZX Spectrum, converted to Z80
snapshots by Werner Spahl and others. The list of games available there
is rather long, so please check the file Index in this directory for its
exact contents.

infocom/compilers/inform/...
programming/inform/... [symbolic link to the same directory]
Graham Nelson officially released Inform 5.5 v1502 and the Inform library
version 5/11; they can be found here in subdirectories 'source' and
'library', respectively. The executables in subdirectory 'executables' will
be replaced by the new version as they come in; so far we have the
following executables at the v1502 level:

Inf5.5Pmac2.12exe.cpt.hqx Macintosh Interface Version 2.12
for PowerPc Macs, by Robert A. Pelak
Inf5.5mac2.12exe.cpt.hqx Macintosh Interface Version 2.12
for 68K Macs, by Robert A. Pelak
i55-386.zip for 386+ with DOS, by Bob Newell
i55nt.zip for Windows NT (Intel) console mode and Windows 95,
by Wolfgang Strobl
i55pc.zip for generic PC with DOS, by Bob Newell
os2_55 for OS/2 2.x and Warp 3.0, by John W. Kennedy
warp_55 for OS/2 Warp 3.0 only, by John W. Kennedy
(the only difference between the OS/2 versions is that the
Warp-only version is about 60 kB smaller when unpacked.
Unpack with OS/2's built-in UNPACK utility)

In subdirectory 'examples' there is a new file 'arrays.inf'; a tiny game by
Graham Nelson to test the new array facilities.

File 'release-note.txt' in the base directory describes the changes from
the previous release of inform; 'general-notes.txt' describes the structure
of the inform directory tree. The previous releases have been removed from
the archive but are still available on request.

infocom/hints/uhs/zork3.uhs
solutions/uhs/zork3.uhs [link to same file]
UHS hint file (v95a) for Zork III: The Dungeon Master, by Jason Strautman.
Part of the hint file (Button Room and Beyond) are only accessible to
registered users of a UHS reader ($10 shareware).

infocom/info/fact-sheet.txt
new version 4.7 (01jul95) of Paul David Doherty's Infocom Fact Sheet:
everything about games, authors, history, statistics, interpreters, tools,
etc...

infocom/interpreters/zip/jzip201.zip
JZIP V2.0.1 source code, by John Holder
JZIP is based on Mark Howell's version 2.0 source code and incorporates
changes for Borland C (DOS), Bureaucracy under Unix, a better random number
generator, and Inform V8 games

infocom/tools/ap2ifc.zip
a little utility to extract Infocom game files from Apple II disk images,
by Steve Hugg. Pascal source code and DOS executable.

programming/hugo/...
several files here have been replaced by maintenance updates, viz:
examples/colossal.hug
executables/hugo_pc.zip
library/hugolib.h and objlib.h
source/hemisc.c and hugo-src.zip

programming/lads/ladsexe.txt
description of the following file

programming/lads/ladsexe.zip
compiled version (DOS) of the LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System?)
compiler and driver and a demo by Jesse McGrew.
The original code (tokenized BASIC) is still in lads.zip

scott-adams/scott.zip
new version 1.14b of ScottFree for the PC, by Alan Cox.
Reads and executes TRS-80 format Scott Adams data files.
ANSI C source code and DOS executable.

solutions/ditchday.sol
step-by-step solution for Ditch Day Drifter, by Paul J. Godfrey

solutions/hotel.sol
solution to Hotel Notell, by W. Mintardjo

solutions/labyrinth.sol
solution to The Deadly Labyrinth, by W. Mintardjo

solutions/rimworld.sol
step-by-step solution for Rimworld, by Paul J. Godfrey

solutions/thief.sol
incomplete solution (42 points out of 50) to The Multi-Dimensional Thief,
by W. Mintardjo

Please put uploads into ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive
and send e-mail to Volker.Blasius@gmd.de describing the file(s) you uploaded.

Enjoy!

Volker