60 points | by quuxplusone 4 days ago ago
7 comments
Jason Scott (of textfiles.com) made a great documentary video about the Adeventure game. I picked up a copy at DEFCON about 15 years ago.
http://www.getlamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn)
or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/
Cannot recommend this book enough. Absolutely fascinating read
Great documentary, highly recomended. Small correction: it's not specifically about the game Adventure but about the genre it spawned, Text Adevntures (later called Interactive Fiction)
They trimmed the caving term PLUGHole down to 5 letters. O:-)
Collosal Cave at IFDB:
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=fft6pu91j85y4acv
ZMachine ports. Open them with WinFrotz/Frotz or LectRote.
Spanish translation for the ZMachine https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/spanish/AVE...
English ones.
350 points, Z8 version, for 16 bit machines and up: https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/advent.z8
Adventure, 350 points, Puny Inform version. It will run on 8 bit computers and even the Game Boy:
https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/advent_puny...
What a nice site! I feel I could spend months there and not be bored. Thanks for posting.
Jason Scott (of textfiles.com) made a great documentary video about the Adeventure game. I picked up a copy at DEFCON about 15 years ago.
http://www.getlamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn)
or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/
Cannot recommend this book enough. Absolutely fascinating read
Great documentary, highly recomended. Small correction: it's not specifically about the game Adventure but about the genre it spawned, Text Adevntures (later called Interactive Fiction)
They trimmed the caving term PLUGHole down to 5 letters. O:-)
Collosal Cave at IFDB:
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=fft6pu91j85y4acv
ZMachine ports. Open them with WinFrotz/Frotz or LectRote.
Spanish translation for the ZMachine https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/spanish/AVE...
English ones.
350 points, Z8 version, for 16 bit machines and up: https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/advent.z8
Adventure, 350 points, Puny Inform version. It will run on 8 bit computers and even the Game Boy:
https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/advent_puny...
What a nice site! I feel I could spend months there and not be bored. Thanks for posting.