This directory contains all the games, each one in its own directory,
sorted by programming language.
The following files were added after the creation of the archives
comp98.zip and Comp98.sit.bin.
All files submitted by the game authors with permission from David Dyte.
inform/atrox/atrox.txt walkthrough for Cattus Atrox
inform/photopia/bug.txt a bug in Photopia and how not to run into it
tads/arrival/bug.txt a bug in Arrival and how to circumvent it
tads/arrival/arrival.rs1 sound resource file for Arrival
- alan/cc
- CC, by Mikko Vuorinen.
Requires Alan interpreter (Arun) 2.8 to run.
- Comp98.sit.bin [04-Oct-1998]
- comp98.zip converted to Macintosh format by
Andrew Plotkin. Download in binary mode!
- comp98.z5 [03-Oct-1998]
- The 'front-end' game for the 1998 competition, providing
information on all the games and systems used to run
them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play
into a random list. Written by Lucian Paul Smith
- comp98.zip [03-Oct-1998]
- all the entries in this year's competition in one
package. Unzip into a directory with the -d option
to preserve the original subdirectory structure.
See also the note above about files that were added
after comp98.zip was created.
- hugo/memory
- Persistence of Memory, by Anonymous
(an updated version of this game is in
games/hugo/memory.hex)
- inform/acid
- Acid Whiplash, by Anonymous, or rather:
Rybread Celsius Can't Find a Dictionary,
by Rybread Celsius and Cody Sandifer
Release 1 / Serial number 980928
- inform/atrox
- Cattus Atrox, by David A. Cornelson
Release 3.981001
(source code is in games/source/inform/AtroxSrc.zip)
- inform/bluemen
- Little Blue Men, an interactive object lesson
by Michael S. Gentry
Release 1 / Serial number 980923
- inform/city
- The City version 2, an interactive short-experience
by Sam Barlow
Release 1 / Serial number 980930
- inform/dilly
- Trapped in a One-Room Dilly, by Laura A. Knauth
Release 1 / Serial number 980917
- inform/enlighte
- Enlightenment: a One Room Absurdity
by Taro Stephen Ogawa
Release 7 / Serial number 891001
- inform/evil
- Where Evil Dwells, by Paul Johnson and Steve Owens
Release 1 / Serial number 980930
- inform/fifteen
- Fifteen, by Ricardo Dague
Release 1 / Serial number 980926
- inform/hrs
- Human Resources Stories: In Search of Employment
by Harry M. Hardjono
Release 1 / Serial number 980930
- inform/informat
- Informatory, by William S. Shlaer
Release 1 / Serial number 980929
(an updated version of this game is in
games/zcode/Informat.z5)
- inform/loose
- Mother Loose, an Interactive Nursery Rhyme
by Irene Callaci
Release 1 / Serial number 980928
(an updated version of this game is in
games/zcode/loose.z5)
- inform/muse
- Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang
Release 1 / Serial number 980927
(an updated version of this game is in
games/zcode/muse.z5)
- inform/photopia
- Photopia, by Opal O'Donnell
(an updated version of this game is in
games/zcode/photopia.z5 and games/pc/photopia.exe)
- inform/purple
- Purple, a passage through disaster, by Stefan Blixt
Release 1 / Serial number 980929
- inform/research
- Research Dig, by Chris Armitage
Release 1 / Serial number 980930
- inform/ritual
- The Ritual of Purification, an Interactive Cleansing
by Sable
Release 1 / Serial number 980927
- inform/space_st
- Spacestation, by David Ledgard
Release 1 / Serial number 980819
(an updated version of this game is in
games/zcode/spacest2.z5)
- inform/spotlite
- In the Spotlight, an Unexpected Intelligence Test
by John Byrd
Release 5 / Serial number 980929
- inform/tokyo
- Downtown Tokyo Present Day, by Digby McWiggle
Release 1 / Serial number 980930
- msdos/commute
- The Commute
- msdos/yodel
- I Didn't Know You Could Yodel!
by Michael R. Eisenman and Andrew J. Indovina
Ver 1.12 / Release 24 / Serial number 8675309
- pre-announcement.txt [02-Mar-1998]
- David Dyte's announcement that he is the organiser
of the 1998 IF Writing Competition
- prizes.txt [23-Feb-1999]
- a list of which author chose which prize in
the 1998 competition.
- readme.txt [02-Oct-1998]
- David Dyte's note about this year's competition:
read this to find out where to get more information
- results.txt [01-Dec-1998]
- The results of the 1998 competition
- schedule.txt [22-Jun-1998]
- some important dates, by David Dyte
- tads/arrival
- Arrival or, Attack of the B-Movie Cliches
by Samantha Clark
Version 1 (Sep 30 1998)
(an updated version of this game is in
games/tads/arrival.zip; source code is in
games/source/tads/arrsrc.zip)
- tads/fourin1
- Four In One, an Interactive Comedy by J. Robinson Wheeler
Version 1.0
(an updated version of this game is in
games/tads/Fin1_gam.sit and games/tads/Fin1_gam.zip;
source code is in games/source/tads/Fin1_src.sit and
games/source/tads/Fin1_src.zip)
- tads/light
- Lightiania, by Gustav Bodell
Version 1.14.00
- tads/plant
- The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts
(an updated version of this game is in
games/tads/plant_2.zip and its source code is in
games/source/tads/plantsrc_2.zip)