#Infocom
Floppy Disk Friday! Hitchhiker's by Infocom. Anybody ever play it or even hear of it??? 😜
#Atari #Atari8Bit #HitchhikersGuide #Infocom #FloppyDiskFriday #Omnifixo #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd
@GrantMeStrength
The cover art vs reality. We had good imaginations back then. #infocom
Today in BoneQuest History for May 18th 2015 "WATCH ME WAR" https://bonequest.com/5953 #bonequest :pants: :deuce: #deuce_pants #huffy_pants #infocom #sfw #text_adventure #war #war_correspondent #weird_pants_face #zork
Lots bugs found, but CZECH ran to conclusion. #infocom #godot #Godot4 #zmachine #interpreter
With the release of Zork II, the storyline of the trilogy began to take shape. New content from Gold Machine.
Check out my #Twitch stream of #Seastalker another #Infocom #TextAdventure I'm a #Smallstreamer so please boost this post.
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Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST I will be checking out another #TextAdventure from #Infocom I'm a #Smallstreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
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My GDScript Z-Machine now has GUT testing and can sustain the read eval print loop at least in Moonmist. Doesn't understand a word tho.
Objects and parsing are still very wrong and need unit tests. Improved error handling by the machine made some Z-Files actually work less. Parsing and dictionary tests next, I guess, just to see some progress.
https://codeberg.org/RotHorseKid/godot-zmachine
So, it's a double whammy.
We're going to finish the "Good Ending" of The Dagger of Amon Ra, AND see if we can finish Infocom's H2G2 this evening. Aiming to start at 1945 BST.
It's going to involve a hilarious hardware quick-change in the middle that will absolutely NOT GO WRONG.
Would love to see some of you there.
I'm quite impressed by how much of a git Douglas was.
Just when I think I've cracked this game, I realise I've fucked up in some other impressive dead end way.
I'm *really* impressed with the way that the game actually checks to see if a particular path is inaccessible for the end game and chooses that.
*restores from months ago*
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #Sorcerer another #TextAdventure from #Infocom I'm a #smallstreamer so please boost this post.
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Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST I will be checking out another #TextAdventure from #Infocom I'm a #smallstreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
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Starting a new #interactiveFiction project: Viv plays through past IF #games https://intfiction.org/t/viv-plays-through-past-if-games/62211 #ParserGames #TextAdventure #Infocom #MagneticScrolls #IFComp #RetroGaming #IndieGames
Browsing the IFDB #InteractiveFiction database and just stumbled again across my own list of my top 10 personal favourite interactive fiction #games. The list is arranged in chronological order, from 1983 to 2017. Some predictable titles in there but also some less familiar ones. I include comments about each one. https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=fplmp7feqc2spqwj #TextAdventure #Parser #CreativeWriting #IndieGames #GameDev #Top10 #Infocom #DouglasAdams #Tolkien #Fantasy #CallOfCthulhu #80sGames #90sGames #RetroGaming
Beware: a very buggy and holey ZEngine for Godot. Subroutines dont yet play nice with _process(), and theres almost no EXT opcodes.
https://codeberg.org/RotHorseKid/godot-zmachine
Ravie de mettre un point final aujourd'hui sur mon #article concernant #ChatGPT et l'enseignement. Auriez-vous des idées de #revues qualifiantes (de préférence en section 7 ou 71) auxquelles je pourrais le soumettre ?
#linguiste #linguistique #SIC #InfoCom #intelligencearticielle #esr
Pitch Dark is a frontend for exploring and playing Infocom text adventures on an 8-bit Apple II.
Revision 5, released today, fixes bugs viewing certain hint files and playing certain versions of Bureaucracy. Thanks to @a2_qkumba for his tireless efforts in reverse engineering a decade of undocumented changes to Infocom's parsers.
Weekend success: My GDscript ZMachine printed out most of the first paragraph of Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
Then it hallucinated a quit opcode and stopped gracefully. 😊
Mature enough I guess? Anyone interested?
I'm still working my way to an argument for reading the Zork and Enchanter trilogies as a single, standalone text. This time, I consider the ways that Zork I establishes that narrative.
I use #Pocket app to save #articles (web stories, news articles etc) to #read later. A year ago I had 7000 unread articles saved in Pocket, after being extremely ill for so long. Now I’ve nearly cleared my backlog. Only 2 unread articles in Pocket now. An #ArsTechnica history of #roguelike #ComputerGames. And an in depth look at #Infocom ’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #InteractiveFiction #textadventure. Good articles to have saved to last! I hope to keep my future unread count fairly low.
Check out my last #Twitch stream of #Suspect a #TextAdventure by #Infocom I'm a #smallstreamer so please boost this post
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Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST I will be playing yet another #TextAdventure from #Infocom I'm a #smallstreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
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Very few things prepared me for how life actually works more than Infocom games. #infocom
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST I will checking out another #TextAdventure from #Infocom I'm a #smallstreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
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#20yrsago Why WiFi is crucial to the First Amendment https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/20030417_eff_fcc_spectrum_letter.pdf
#20yrsago Paul Allen building #ScienceFictionMuseum https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/arts/sci-fi-shrine-for-seattle-complete-with-aliens.html
#15yrsago Secret history of #Infocom’s abortive sequel to The #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy text adventure, Milliways https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/
#15yrsago #BellCanada: We have to screw up other ISPs’ connections or our retail customers will suffer by comparison https://web.archive.org/web/20080420010807/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3b50140e-610c-4245-a234-1ae04193a5f2&k=66930
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Uralte #Infocom-Textadventures kombiniert mit moderner Spracheingabe und #eInk-Displays und/oder Sprachausgabe - ich bin noch nicht sicher, ob die Idee genial oder total bescheuert ist.
Das #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy-Spiel mit #DouglasAdams-Humor scheint ganz lustig zu sein... das Game ist mir aber glaube ich zu frustrierend.
BTW: Eigentlich ein Wunder, dass es noch kein #TextAdventure als #Fediverse-Dienst gibt.
"Janus Cycle - Text Adventure Existentialism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcsclXjvbnU
If you're a creator, player, archivist or fan of #interactivefiction we welcome you to join the discussion at intfiction.org!
#if #textadventures #inform7 #twine #parser #CYOA #xyzzy #adventuregame #infocom #zork
I acquired a Mac Classic II and, naturally, I want to put some #Infocom and modern text adventures on its hard drive.
It seems that MacDisk is an easy way to transfer small files via floppy - https://www.macdisk.com/prospen.php - but if anyone out there recommends another way, I'm all ears.
I'm setting up the Atari ST and we're carrying on the play through of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy at 1930 BST.
Bring towels.
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST will be checking out another #TextAdventure but it isn't from #Infocom this one also has a few graphics so it isn't just a plain #TextAdventure I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
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Surprise! The Malifestro Quest, the second #Zork #gamebook, is very different. Not only are there two goofy sidekicks, it also features a magic carpet which comes with a very Zorkian manual. The encounter with the djinni demon was something. On the downside, it is completely linear. Also, no trap sections for cheaters anymore.
@nixCraft
"First the screen returns to something nearly normal, then windows begin popping up like toadstools after a rain"
- The Lurking Horror
#Infocom Game transcript:
https://pr-if.org/event/play-lurkinghorror/transcript-the-lurking-horror/
I read/played the first #Zork #gamebook, The Forces of Kryll. Aimed at 10-year-olds, I guess. No real gameplay element apart from making an occasional choice what to do next. In most cases, bad choice ends the journey immediately. Essentially, there are just two diverging major paths which come together again at the end. Not badly written considering audience, but I was surprised how straight it is. None of the trademark Zork humor.
This is not a drill.
We are going live with The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy on the Atari ST at 20:00 tonight BST.
And for ents, we're playing music on the mini MIDI mountain. Because flaunt it if you've spent an hour configuring it.
https://www.twitch.tv/betsyandsamantha
Bring your towel.
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Michael Berlyn (1949–2023) was best known as an ”imp” (implementor, ie programmer) at #Infocom. He did, in whole or in part, games such as Suspended, Infidel and Cutthroats. At other companies he did Tass Times in Tonetown and many more. In particular he created Bubsy, a series of platform games. Jason Scott wrote more: http://www.getlamp.com/cast/20060225berlyn/index.html
In 2014, he was diagnosed with cancer. At one point friends set up a donation page to cover his medical bills.
The battle is now over.
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #Infidel by #Infocom this game has a pretty dark ending. I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
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Morning Mastodonians!
Looking forward getting to #PaxEast today with @adrienne ! Any of my fellow Masto #boardgamers #boardgames geeks going to be there today? Not planning on doing much, just wandering around gawking, maybe pick up a new set of dice, maybe a used game or two. Might go to a panel. There's a "Build Your Own Text Adventure" clinic at the end of the day we might go to. And I might just let it drop that I used to work at #Infocom, as that's probably a group that would know it.
Someone nailed the question that I have (I would ask it again this year).
In the comments, I noticed some u/wil. Yup, it's @wilw.
I love how genuine Wil is. <3
P.S.
If someone knows a CLI game that is "like nethack but fun" and isn't #DwarfFortress or an #Infocom game (I love both, but I'd like to just chill a little bit), I'm all ears.
Un nouveau venu est en gestation chez C&F... Celui d'Anne Cordier, "Grandir informés" ! C'est la suite de "Grandir connectés", et ça arrive en mai.
Mais rien que pour vous, on a ouvert une précommande à prix réduit jusqu'au 1er mai : https://cfeditions.com/grandir-informes/
Et pour vous aider à prendre votre mal en patience, un tout nouveau tirage de son grand frère "Grandir connectés" est en route juste pour l'occasion : https://cfeditions.com/grandirConnectes/
#profdoc #educnum #EMI #Education #educationauxmedias #Infocom
I don't know if anyone else in the world needs this — say "hi!" if you do — but I made a DEC VT100 terminal overlay for #RetroArch (created for using the excellent MojoZork core by @icculus for Infocom adventures). You can download it here: https://sarahkmarr.com/VT100_overlay.zip. Have fun.
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#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #DEC #ASCII #TextAdventure #Infocom #Zork #InteractiveFiction
I found these paperback books at the local library book sale for 50 cents each. I couldn't NOT buy them!
A new episode of #EatenByAGrue is out, in which I played Dorm, an #infocom style interactive fiction game that @Carrington wrote! https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/51
#MoofADay: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 🪐
#infocom #InteractiveFiction #retrogaming #macintosh #1bit
https://youtu.be/eJThldKnHyk
I realized only today that “The Wizard of Frobozz” is just “The Wizard of Oz” with “Frob” (mid-century MIT nerd-slang) stapled to it, for the archaeo-lols. #InteractiveFiction #RetroGaming #Infocom #Zork
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Check out my #Twitch stream of #ZorkII I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
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#DailyRetroGame 42: Bureaucracy (1987)
Having already used Hitchhiker’s in this series (it in hindsight should have been entry 42), this second IF piece by Douglas Adams will have to do.
Another slice of mind-bending genius, it felt like an evergreen game/life challenge, in having you deal with a string of (sometimes fantastical, given the llama and cannibals) bureaucratic hurdles and try to avoid an aneurism.
Play it on: any #Infocom reader
#DailyRetroGame 25: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984)
Co-written by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky, this #Infocom adventure was evil. It upended book scenes, making you smash your brains out looking for puzzle solutions. It had you switch characters. Moreover, it _lied_.
And it was brilliant: a rare adventure that captured the imagination of folks who’d otherwise avoid text parsers in favour of arcade-oriented larks.
• PC gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ISbNT8Xyc
For those encountering my content for the first time: my nine-part series on Infocom's A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) begins here. Two posts remain. This is already the most that a single author has written about this game, and the first concerted effort to focus exclusively on textual and cultural analysis.
The intended audience is not academic, though some humanists and knowledge workers might enjoy it.
#interactivefiction #infocom #infocomodon
https://golmac.org/initial-groundwork-for-a-reading-of-a-mind-forever-voyaging/
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #ZorkITheGreatUndergroundEmpire. I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
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@amigalove HOW HOW HOW. How did you get games onto the #newton ? I ask for purely academic reasons of course...
At my mom’s house in Texas this week to be with her for Thanksgiving. Every now and then there is down time. It’s ALL good times.
(Getting some Infocom titles on here was no small task…believe me! It was a puzzle I solved during peak pandemic times. And 100% worth it.)
#apple #applenewton #retròcomputing #infocom #textadventure #hhgttg #towel #douglasadams
If you're a fan/educator/creator/archivist of #IF, #interactivefiction, #textadventures, #choicenarrative, and similar narrative games, we'd love to have you join us at the Interactive Fiction Community Forum.
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Adding the important hashtags to my watch list, like #entomophagy and #infocom
On concision, time, and the language of witness in A Mind Forever Voyaging
https://golmac.org/the-future-is-terse-the-constrained-rhetoric-of-a-mind-forever-voyaging/
Anyone else out there interested in classic #text-based #InteractiveFiction? Like the old #Infocom #games. I know there's an #IF community out there — are you on Mastodon?
#TextAdventures #AdventureGames #Zork #Inform #xyzzy #ClassicGames #frotz
Well, after posting about the vibe of the #Commodore 128 versions of the #Infocom games, my amazingly talented friend @clairely_inexplicable put together a Commodore 128 vibe font and shared it with me, and with a little bit of colour configuration, I came up with this Gargoyle style that I think nails the vibe pretty well but on my Windows PC. :) #retrogaming
Hey, #retrogaming people! I have a lot of love for the #Infocom games, while respecting that they're largely of historical interests and that there's piles of much better #InteractiveFiction being made by modern authors. However, some while ago I managed to amass a complete collection of all of the grey-box Infocom titles with all of their feelies, etc. However, I've never played them! Growing up, my Dad was very into software piracy, so I had lots of them but would always get stuck when I hit parts you needed the feelies to figure out.
Since collecting them, I've played Moonmist completely. As a kid, I think I got all the way through Zork 1 and possibly most of Zork 2. And I've played about 9/10ths of Infidel a few years back.
Do you have any recommendations of an order of attack if decide to make a real run at playing through them all over time? I keep trying them in release order, but that frontloads Zork 1, and I get stuck there.
#introduction #ESR Boujour à toutes et tous
MCF en #infocom à l’Université Paris-Est Créteil. J’étudie l’#IA et les objets connectés dans différents contextes (école, ville) et m’intéresse aux enjeux d’apprentissage et de connaissance qu’ils soulèvent.
À côté de ça : bidouilleur du numérique, amateur de #SF, de politique, de #philo la nuit et musicien le dimanche
#Introduction Marion - Moo, MCF en #InfoCom #SHS à l'Université de Poitiers. Quand je parle boulot, c'est #STS (science and technology studies) et #disabilitystudies (lutte contre le #validisme, #autisme et #neurodiversité) dans une approche #feministe, et aussi #pédagogie. En dehors du bureau : proud parent of 5 cats and 2 bunnies. Je construis des trucs dans mon jardin et je tricote des machins sur mon canapé. J'aime les chèvres.