Monthly Archives: May 2015

The Secret of Arendarvon Castle (1985) — bytecode avant la lettre

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Ant

[Play Arendarvon Castle online] [backup] In previous posts, I wrote about Wander (1974), the interactive fiction creation tool for mainframe Unix systems. But my speciality (I use the word laughably) is text adventure games for the BBC Micro, the legendary … Continue reading →

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Wander follow-up

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Ant

Previously I wrote about Wander, the 1974 mainframe text adventure game-creation system by Peter Langston, which was recently rediscovered. You can now play Wander online. This em-dosbox repackaging of a DOS port of Wander was created by me, using blunt … Continue reading →

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