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
It's not a very long list this time because most of the uploads are still in
directory /if-archive/unprocessed; I hope I'll soon find the time to check the
files there and move them to their proper target directories.
games/c64/mystadv.zip
C64 version with line-drawing graphics of the 11 Mysterious Adventures by
Brian Howarth; C64 disk images, prepared by Paul David Doherty.
The titles: The Golden Baton, The Time Machine, Arrow of Death Part 1 and
2, Escape from Pulsar 7, Circus, Feasibility Experiment, The Wizard of
Akyrz, Perseus and Andromeda, Ten Little Indians, Waxworks.
(the original version, converted to ScottFree format, can be found as
scott-adams/mysterious.tar.gz)
games/mac/MacWes10.sit.hqx
MacWesleyan: An Everday Nightmare, version 1.0
TADS adventure by Neil deMause
this is the Macintosh version of PC University below
games/pc/pcu10.zip
games/tads/pcu10.zip (link to same file)
PC University: An Everyday Nightmare, version 1.0
TADS adventure by Neil deMause
machine independent .gam file and TADS runtime for DOS
this is the DOS/other version of MacWesleyan above
info/TADS-vs-Inform.FAQ
programming/general-discussion/TADS-vs-Inform.FAQ (link to same file)
the "Which Is Better TADS or Inform" FAQ; a detailed comparison between the
authoring system TADS and Inform, by Bob Newell. Revision 1.1, 12apr95.
info/adventure-game-history
Hans Persson sent an updated version of his history of interactive fiction
games, dated 07mar95
infocom/articles/GamingWorld91.txt
excerpt from A History of Computer Games, by Johnny Wilson
from Computer Gaming World, November 1991
infocom/compilers/inform/executables/Amiga30-1405.lha
( = programming/inform/executables/Amiga30-1405.lha )
Inform 5.4 release 1405/a (18jan95) for the Amiga, compiled by snail.
This file is optimized for the 68030 CPU.
infocom/compilers/inform/executables/AmigaInform_v1405.lha
( = programming/inform/executables/AmigaInform_v1405.lha )
Inform 5.4 release 1405 (18jan95) for the Amiga, compiled by
Werther 'Mircko' Pirani.
This file is for a vanilla 68000, i.e. it is not optimized for 68020+ CPUs.
infocom/compilers/inform/executables/Inf5.4mac1.09exe.cpt.hqx
( = programming/inform/executables/Inf5.4mac1.09exe.cpt.hqx )
Inform 5.4 for the Macintosh; Mac interface version 1.09 by Robert Pelak
download in ASCII mode
infocom/compilers/inform/executables/i54p386.zip
( = programming/inform/executables/i54p386.zip )
DOS executable of Inform 5.4 v1405/a (18jan95) for 386 or higher,
ported by Bob Newell
infocom/compilers/inform/executables/i54pc.zip
( = programming/inform/executables/i54pc.zip )
DOS executable of Inform 5.4 v1405/at (18jan95) for generic PC,
ported by Bob Newell
infocom/hints/...
this is a new set of directories. Paul David Doherty sent a big bunch of
Infocom InvisiClues, and I seized the opportunity to restructure this part
of the archive, building on the work of Dave Baggett, who had already
cleaned up the Infocom files in the solutions directory. His directory
solutions/infocom has been moved to infocom/hints/solutions;
solutions/infocom is now a symbolic link to infocom/hints.
Here's the new structure:
infocom/hints/invisiclues
Infocom InvisiClues for 28 Infocom games, by Paul David Doherty.
Some are based on the work of earlier contributors; see the individual
files for credits.
infocom/hints/maps
so far there is only one file here: zork0maps.zip, by Mark Howell
infocom/hints/online-hints
the online hints from five Infocom games
infocom/hints/solutions
solutions and walkthroughs for Infocom games
infocom/hints/uhs
UHS hint files for Infocom games. This directory contains 7 links to
the /if-archive/solutions/uhs directory, where the UHS readers can be
found, too.
Two files in these directories are new:
infocom/hints/solutions/shogun.txt
walkthrough for Shogun, by Graeme Cree
infocom/hints/uhs/amfv.uhs
solutions/uhs/amfv.uhs (link to same file)
UHS hint file for A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Matthew Murray
infocom/interpreters/zip/xzip130.tar.Z
XZip version 1.3, by Andrew C. Plotkin, now compatible with Curses.
Andrews' comment: "XZip is a nice version of Zip which you can compile if
you have X Windows running under Unix (including Linux.) It's free."
infocom/patches/InfocomPatches1.1.txt
this is another new directory with one entry so far:
deprotection patches v1.1 (01apr95) by Mark Knibbs for the following games:
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Bureaucracy
Sorcerer
Spellbreaker
Stationfall
Use only on games you legally own!
magazines/...
this is a new directory, created because a third magazine showed up here.
SPAG and XYZZYnews have been moved to magazines/SPAG and
magazines/XYZZYnews, respectively.
magazines/SynTax/syntax.zip
special public domain (promotional) PC issue of SynTax, a bimonthly
commercial disk magazine for the ST, Amiga and PC, published by Sue Medley.
This issue (November 1994) contains articles about adventure games from
issues 1 through 33.
magazines/XYZZYnews/XYZZY2.PDF and XYZZY2.TXT
issue # 2 of Eileen Mullin's XYZZYnews magazine, again in Adobe PDF and
plain ASCII text format.
BTW, I just heard that Ghostscript version 3.30 also supports the PDF
format; I'm going to check that out.
programming/agt/agtlint.zip
AGTLINT, The Adventure Game Toolkit Error Analysis Utility,
Release 2 (1.56), by David S. Raley
DOS executable, documentation and a sample game
supports all versions of the Master's Edition up to 1.56, as well as the
Classic Edition (Standard and Big) and AGTNUM 1.09
programming/hugo/pchugo.txt
pre-release version (1.0) of the Hugo language compiler and interpreter
for DOS, by Kent Tessman
programming/tads/pc.tads2205exx.zip
this file updates pc.tads2exx.zip from version 2.2.0.4 to version 2.2.0.5
(protected mode executables of TADS compiler and runtime for DOS,
additions to adv.t, and a list of the new features of version 2.2.1)
scott-adams/ScottFree.tar.gz
reads and executes TRS-80 format Scott Adams data files; has been replaced
by release 1.12a (ANSI C source code for Unix with curses)
scott-adams/scott.zip
PC version of ScottFree; has been replaced by release 1.12a (ANSI C source
code and DOS executable)
Please put uploads into ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive and drop me
(Volker.Blasius@gmd.de) a line describing the file(s) you uploaded.
Enjoy!
Volker