ewsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction,rec.games.int-fiction,rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Followup-To: rec.arts.int-fiction Subject: recent additions to the Interactive Fiction Archive Keywords: interactive fiction text adventure archive uploads -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello again, The following files have arrived at the Interactive Fiction Archive at http://www.ifarchive.org/ (USA, Pittsburgh, PA) ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/ (USA, Pittsburgh, PA) and should be available soon at the mirror sites: http://ifarchive.plover.net/ (USA, Chicago, IL) http://ifarchive.flavorplex.com/ (USA, Saint Paul, MN) http://ifarchive.jmac.org/ (USA) http://mirror.ifarchive.org/ (USA) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/interactive-fiction/ (USA) http://ifarchive.smallwhitehouse.org/ (USA) http://ifarchive.wurb.com/ (USA) http://www.ifarchive.info/ (USA) http://ifarchive.heanet.ie/ (Ireland) http://ifarchive.giga.or.at/ (Austria) and also the mirror FTP sites: ftp://ftp.guetech.org/if-archive/ (USA, Bremerton, WA) ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/interactive-fiction/ (USA) ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/ (Finland) If you are looking for a particular file in the archive, check if-archive/Master-Index (updated daily) and if-archive/unprocessed/ for files which aren't in the index yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/glulx/DeadCities.gblorb Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold, with illustrations by Lucy Gatfield. Winner of the 2007 Lovecraft Commonplace Book Competition. Release 9 / Serial number 081214 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/glulx/EverybodyDies.gblorb [game] http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/solutions/EverybodeyDies.sol [walkthru] http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/solutions/EverybodeyDiesInvisiclues.html [invisiclues] Everbody Dies, an Interactive Fantasy by Jim Munroe, with illustrations by Michael Cho. Release 2 / Serial number 081116 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/glulx/Nightfall.zip Nightfall, an Interactive Short Story by Eric Eve. Release 2 / Serial number 081122. This is an update to Eric's Competition entry. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/linux/newcastle.tgz http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/newcastle.zip The New Castle, version 5.3. Written by Dan Gahlinger, based on Castle, written by Barry Wilks on a VAX/VMS circa 1983. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/mini-comps/speedif/SpeedIF_NewYear2008.zip Games entered in the 2008 SpeedIF New Year's Speed Competition. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/saltern.zip Eight homebrew TRS-80 text adventures, converted to MS-DOS, by Layne K. Saltern. The games are Agent, Agent II: Silenced, Crypt of the Abbeys, Fall of Voyageur, The Fluorescent Jungle, Madness, The Snow Queen, and Starstruck. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tads/MarthasBigDate.t3 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/MarthasBigDate.exe Martha's Big Date, by Mary Potts, based on a fan-fiction series written for Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tads/SpecialDetectiveAgent.zip Special Detecive Agent, version 1.0, by Pradeep Baral. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tag/pirate.tag Pirate Adventure, a German rewrite of Scott and Alexis Adams' classic game, by Christian Bluemke. Version 2.02c (2005-01-07). http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Casting.z5 Casting, version 2.1, by 'Trix. Release 2 / Serial number 050707 WARNING: Contains adult content. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Ham_House.zip In the House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, an Utterly Epic Text Adventure from Cumberland Games, written by S.John Ross. Release 10 / Serial number 081124 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/leaptime.z8 Leap Time, an Interactive Lull by Sarah Morayati. Release 2 / Serial number 081230 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/LMS_TVG.zblorb LMS The Video Game, an Action Interactive Fiction Game by John Goettle. Release 6 / Serial number 081225 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/OneGirl.z5 One Girl, by Dr. Khel. Release 1 / Serial number 020113 WARNING: Contains adult content. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/SantasSleighRide.zip Santa's Sleigh Ride, a moment in the life of Santa Claus, by Molly Geene. Release 4 / Serial number 081227 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/StormCellar0.zblorb Storm Cellar, an Interactive Work of Horror by P. F. Sheckarski. This is the first installment in a planned series, to be released episodically. Release 2 / Serial number 081022 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/TheDayIShotHitler.z5 The Day I Shot..., an interactive Party by Marius Muller. Release 2 / Serial number 081206 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/toask-sampler.zip Sampler for Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom. Originally by Dr. Saul Leeman, with Henry and Dinah Riley, and adapted by S. John Ross. Release 5 / Serial number 081222 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/german/karisma.z5 Klub Karisma, ein interaktives Rein-Raus-Spiel, by Christian Bluemke. Release 8 / Serial number 081225 (v8.04) http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/german/knack.z5 Knack! Eine kurze interaktive Abkuehlung, by Christian Bluemke. Release 1, Seriennr. 081215. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/italian/strega.z5 La strega di Maughn, un bosco ipertestuale ordito da Carcosa Edizioni. An experimental exploration of a cursed wood, vaguely inspired by The Blair Witch Project. Versione 2 / Numero di serie 081007 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/spanish/Pincoya.zip http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/inform/spanish/Pincoya.zip Ofrenda a La Pincoya, by Incanus. A Chiloe's mythology tale. Version 01.01.02. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/WindowsFrotz.zip http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/WindowsFrotzInstaller.exe Windows Frotz version 1.15, a port of Frotz for Windows, by David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/WindowsFrotzSrc.zip Source code for Windows Frotz version 1.15, by David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zax/ZaxMidlet_0.1.0.tar.gz ZaxMidlet 0.1.0, by William H. Johnson, based on Zax by Matt Kimmel. ZaxMidlet is a port of Zax to J2ME Midlet for Blackberry (and other) devices supporting MIDP 2.0. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/shipped-documentation/Zork_PDP_11.pdf PDF scan of the Zork manual for the PDP-11 version, signed by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, and Joel Berez. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/mapping-tools/ifm-5.3.tar.gz Interactive Fiction Mapper, version 5.3, written by Glenn Hutchings. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/alan3/executables/alan3_0alpha6.macosx.ppc.tgz Alan version 3.0 alpha 6 for Mac OS X, by Thomas Nilsson. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/alan3/executables/alan3_0alpha6.win32.x86.zip Alan version 3.0 alpha 6 for Windows, by Thomas Nilsson. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/alan3/executables/alan3_0alpha6.win32.x86.setup.exe Alan version 3.0 alpha 6 in a Windows installer, by Thomas Nilsson. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/alan3/executables/winarun3_0alpha6.win32.x86.setup.exe Alan (interpreter only) version 3.0 alpha 6 in a Windows installer, by Thomas Nilsson. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/alan3/manual/alan3manual.pdf Documentation of Alan version 3.0 alpha 6 in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/gac/grackle.zip Grackle 0.2 Alpha, by David Lodge. A dumper and player for adventures written using the Graphic Adventure Creator. At the moment it supports games from the Spectrum (in .sna format) and the Amstrad CPC (as extracted files with the AMSDOS header from a disk image). Archive includes C source and an MS-DOS executable. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/jacl/jacl-2.3.tgz JACL version 2.3, by Stuart Allen. Archive contains Linux binaries, source code, sample games and documentation. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/jacl/jacl-2.3.zip JACL version 2.3, by Stuart Allen. Archive contains Windows binaries, source code, sample games and documentation. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glk/implementations/WindowsGlk-135.zip Windows implementation of Glk 0.7.0, version 1.35, written by David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glk/implementations/WindowsGlkSrc-135.zip Source code for Windows Glk, version 1.35, written by David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/git/wingit-121.zip Windows binary for Git 1.2.1, ported by Brian Kelley and David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/glulxe/WinGlulxe.zip Windows version of the Glulxe 0.4.3 interpreter using Windows Glk 1.35, ported by David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/glulxe/WinGlulxeSrc.zip Windows specific source code for Windows Glulxe 0.4.3 (using Windows Glk 1.35), ported by David Kinder. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/glulxe/WinGlulxeInstaller.exe Windows version of the Glulxe 0.4.3 interpreter using Windows Glk 1.35, packaged as an executable installer by Fredrik Ramsberg. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/htads_authkit_2512.exe HTML TADS Author's Kit, version 2.5.12, by Mike Roberts. This contains everything needed to write TADS or HTML TADS games under Windows, including the compiler, debugger, character mode and HTML run-times, library files and notes. Self-installing archive. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/htads_authkit_with_doc_2512.exe HTML TADS Author's Kit with documentation, version 2.5.12, by Mike Roberts. This contains everything needed to write TADS or HTML TADS games under Windows, including the compiler, debugger, character mode and HTML run-times, library files, user's manuals, and notes. Self-installing archive. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/htads_playkit_HT20.exe http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads3/executables/htads_playkit_HT20.exe HTML TADS Player's Kit, HT-20 (2.5.12/3.0.17), by Mike Roberts. This contains everything needed to play TADS 2 or 3 games under Windows. Self-installing archive. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/htmltads_HT20.zip http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads3/executables/htmltads_HT20.zip HTML TADS HT-20 (2.5.10/3.0.17) run-time executables for Windows, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/htmltdb_2512.zip HTML TADS version 2.5.12 debugger for Windows, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/tads32_2512.zip TADS version 2.5.12 compiler and run-time executables for Windows console mode, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/tadsexe_2512.zip TADS version 2.5.12 executables and support files (including adv.t and std.t) for MS-DOS, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/tadsexx_2512.zip TADS version 2.5.12 executables for MS-DOS, 16-bit protected-mode, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/executables/tadsrun_2512.zip TADS version 2.5.12 run-time executable for MS-DOS, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/library/adv.t The standard adventure definitions for TADS, version 2.5.12, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/library/std.t The standard default adventure functions for TADS, version 2.5.12, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/library/tadslib_2512.zip The library files for TADS, version 2.5.12, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/source/htads_src_HT20.zip HTML TADS source code, version HT-20, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads2/source/tads_src_2512.zip TADS source code, version 2.5.12, by Mike Roberts. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads3/examples/yesnomaybe.t An example of how to handle arbitrary narrator yes/no/maybe questions to the player where normally the player would not answer, but if the player does a clever reply may be given. Originally a TADS2 example by Scott Steinfath, converted to TADS3 by Cleo Kraft. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads3/library/contributions/asto.t Adds an integer property to each non-class object, and sets it to a value giving the "absolute" order of the object definition in the program source. Version 2.0, written by Kevin Forchione. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/tads3/library/contributions/autosave.zip An extension that allows the player to restore the game to an earlier state determined by the game itself, like "undo", except that the story is brought back to a specific point rather than one turn backwards. Version November 23, 2008, by Michel Nizette. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy! David and Stephen