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Galactic Hitchhiker (1980): inspo a-go-go
TL/DR: Play Galactic Hitchhiker online Fit the First I’ve always said that if this blog had a slogan it would probably be something like “Retroactive Fiction: Very tentatively recommended.” So imagine my surprise when I read Jason Dyer’s blogpost about … Continue reading
BeebScott: the Scott Adams interpreter nobody asked for
BeebScott: a tool for converting and playing Scott Adams text adventure games on the BBC Micro Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 8-bit, bbc, BBC Micro, interactive fiction, retro, Scott Adams, text adventure, text adventure game, trs-80
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IFComp 2020: Amazing Quest (Nick Montfort, C64 BASIC)
Amazing Quest: playing and porting a strange entry in the 2020 Interactive Fiction Competition Continue reading
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Tagged BASIC, BBC BASIC, BBC Micro, C64, IFComp, IFComp 2020, interactive fiction, Nick Montfort, text adventure game
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Digging up Adventureland (Scott Adams, 1980)
The troubled saga of how I ported the classic Scott Adams game Adventureland to the BBC Micro Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, Adventureland, BASIC, BBC BASIC, interactive fiction, Scott Adams, text adventure, trs-80
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Scott Adams’s type-in game Pirate Adventure (BYTE, 1980)
Does anyone know of a working, playable version of Scott Adams’s text adventure game Pirate Adventure as published in the December 1980 issue of BYTE magazine? I couldn’t find one, which was a shame because I was trying to learn … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, BASIC, BBC BASIC, interactive fiction, Pirate Adventure, Scott Adams, text adventure, trs-80
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LAND (1989) — a lost MUD recreated
I’ll admit it: I don’t know very much about MUDs. (Nor am I familiar with the various spinoffs — the MUCKs, MOOs and MUSHes — that proliferated in the early days of the Net.) Many years ago, I would occasionally … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, bbc, BBC Micro, DEC, interactive fiction, LAND, mainframe computer, MUD, MUDDL, PDP-10
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The Inform 7 website is [no longer] down
For the last few days inform7.com has been unavailable. The site is the official host of the Inform 7 IDE. UPDATE: I’ve been informed that the outage is due to an unexpected error that affected the CMS for the Inform … Continue reading
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One Room (1983) — the first one-room game?
One Room is a text adventure game written by Jorge Mir for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was published as a program-listing in the first Rainbow Book of Adventures in 1983. One Room is set in a single room (duh), … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 8-bit, bbc, BBC Micro, interactive fiction, one-room game, puzzle, room-escape, text adventure, trs-80
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Maze of Madness (2018) — a torment
Maze of Madness is a modern game for an ancient computer (namely the 8-bit BBC Micro, which this blog seems to endlessly bang on about). Well, I say “game”, but it’s more of a demo – a demo of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 8-bit, bbc, BBC Micro, cruel, game, interactive fiction, puzzle, retro, text adventure, text adventure game
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Xanadu Adventure (1982) — shop till you drop
Xanadu Adventure is a text adventure game that was written for the BBC Micro by Paul Shave in 1982. Typically for the time, Shave was strongly influenced by Crowther and Woods’s Colossal Cave, and Xanadu therefore featured the requisite stream, … Continue reading
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Tagged 8-bit, BBC Micro, game, history, Hopesoft, interactive fiction, Paul Shave, retro, text adventure, text adventure game
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