Note: For information about Infocom and their games see directory | |
'if-archive/infocom/info', for Magnetic Scrolls see directory | |
'if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/info', for beginners' guides see | |
directory 'if-archive/starters'. | |
4 Subdirectories: | |
archive-stats | |
ifdb | |
ifwiki | |
intficforum | |
49 items: | |
Colossal-Cave.TidBITS | |
[20-Jun-1994] | |
Colossal Cave Revisited, by Mel Park | |
an article from TidBITS #229, 06jun94, about a | |
re-release of the game on CD and the original | |
cave the game is based on. | |
Colossal-Cave.origin | |
[27-Oct-1994] | |
A note from Bernie Cosell on the origin of the | |
original ADVENT game. | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.A4.ps | |
[28-Sep-1996] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
PostScript version for A4 paper. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.A4.ps] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.T1.A4.pdf | |
[12-Jun-2002] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
A4 PDF version using Type 1 fonts, | |
converted by Nikos Chantziaras. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.T1.A4.pdf] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.T1.letter.pdf | |
[12-Jun-2002] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
Letter PDF version using Type 1 fonts, | |
converted by Nikos Chantziaras. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.T1.letter.pdf] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.hlp | |
[1-Nov-1998] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
Windows 3.1 Help format. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.hlp] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.letter.ps | |
[29-Sep-1996] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
PostScript version for US letter size paper. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.letter.ps] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.pdf | |
[23-Jan-1997] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
Adobe Acrobat PDF format. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.pdf] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.pkg | |
[27-Feb-2001] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
Newton book format, converted by Eric Brown. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.pkg] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.tex | |
[19-Jan-1995] | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
Graham's original TeX version. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.tex] | |
Craft.Of.Adventure.txt | |
[19-Jan-1995] | |
IFDB entry | |
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, | |
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure | |
Games, by Graham Nelson. | |
Plain text version. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.txt] | |
Sherlock.zip | |
[9-Feb-1998] | |
IFDB entry | |
Manual for Sherlock (the game released by | |
Melbourne House, not the Infocom game of the | |
same name), in HTML format with JPEG images. | |
Scanned in by Jeremy A. Smith. | |
ZCatalog.chm | |
[23-Oct-1999] | |
The Z-Files, a Z-Code Catalog. | |
Michael Baum's catalog of Z-Code games and | |
programs, converted to a Windows HTML Help File | |
by Paul de Valmency. | |
[file is linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog.chm] | |
ZCatalog990722.txt | |
[1-Aug-1999] | |
Detailed description of ZCatalog990722.zip | |
[file is linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog990722.txt] | |
ZCatalog990722.zip | |
[22-Jul-1999] | |
A catalog of all Z-Code games and programs, | |
in HTML format. Written by Michael Baum, | |
based on previous catalogs by Brendon Wyber, | |
Neil Brown and Gunther Schmidl. | |
Last updated 22 July 1999 | |
[file is linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog990722.zip] | |
adv-tree.txt | |
[24-Jul-1996] | |
The Adventure family tree, detailing all the | |
known versions of Adventure, as constructed by | |
Russell Dalenberg. | |
advent.html | |
[29-Jan-1997] | |
A WWW page describing all the versions of | |
Adventure found here at the IF Archive, written | |
by David Kinder. | |
adventure-game-list | |
[12-Feb-1999] | |
Information about adventure games and the | |
companies that made them, collected by | |
Hans Persson. | |
This is a text version of the author's | |
Adventureland web site, at | |
http://adventure.if-legends.org/ | |
List created 06feb1999. | |
adventure-game-systems | |
[2-Aug-1994] | |
A list of adventure authoring systems, both | |
commercial, free, and for in-house development, | |
by Hans Persson. Last update: 10may94. | |
archive-stats | |
[22-Dec-2019] | |
A directory containing download statistics | |
for the IF Archive, starting from when the | |
archive was housed at GMD. | |
author-list.txt | |
[3-Mar-1998] | |
A list of authors if IF games, together with email | |
addresses (where known and permitted), | |
revision 1.0 (01mar98), by John Francis. | |
authoring-systems.FAQ | |
[2-Dec-1994] | |
Information about development systems for | |
Interactive Fiction, by Nathan Torkington. | |
Last update: 23nov94. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/authoring-systems.FAQ] | |
authorship-guide.base | |
[6-Jun-1995] | |
Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship | |
base document version 2.0 by Gerry Kevin Wilson. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.base] | |
authorship-guide.sup1 | |
[6-Jun-1995] | |
Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship | |
supplement #1 (25may95) to version 2.0 | |
by Gerry Kevin Wilson. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.sup1] | |
authorship-guide.sup2 | |
[27-Jun-1995] | |
Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship | |
supplement #2 (25jun95) to version 2.0 | |
by Gerry Kevin Wilson. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.sup2] | |
classic-game-programmers.list | |
[22-May-2001] | |
The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers, | |
by James Hague; last updated 15 May 2001. | |
dumb_reviews.txt | |
[11-Jan-1999] | |
The first of a two part collection of game | |
reviews, written by Quentin D. Thompson. | |
dumb_reviews2.txt | |
[8-Feb-1999] | |
The second of a two part collection of game | |
reviews, written by Quentin D. Thompson. | |
feedback-guide.txt | |
[4-Apr-1996] | |
Jacob's Guide to Giving Constructive Feedback | |
on IF, by Jacob Solomon Weinstein. | |
[file is linked to | |
rec.arts.int-fiction/feedback-guide.txt] | |
guidadv1.txt | |
[6-Jul-1997] | |
Adventurist's Guide Through Textual Adventures, | |
Part I (for novices), by Vladimir Krstulja. | |
hound-manual.zip | |
[20-Nov-1999] | |
Manual for The Hound Of Shadow, by | |
Eldritch Games, scanned into HTML format | |
by Frederic Bassaler. | |
if-bibliography.txt | |
[3-Apr-1997] | |
Interactive Fiction Bibliography (4/97), | |
compiled by Stephen Granade. | |
if-page.zip | |
[11-Jun-1996] | |
Paul Gilbert's IF web page. | |
ifanswers.zip | |
[2-Nov-2015] | |
Archive of ifanswers.com, a Q&A site for | |
Interactive Fiction which was live from March | |
2015 to October 2015, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
with attribution required. | |
inform-gamelist.txt | |
[15-Oct-1997] | |
A Non-Interactive List of Inform Games, | |
by Neil James Brown. | |
Based on a previous list by Brendon Wyber. | |
Release 5 / 971015 | |
[file is linked to games/zcode/inform-gamelist.txt] | |
mud-info | |
[19-Apr-1994] | |
The beginning of a compilation of information | |
concerning multi-user adventure games, | |
by Hans Persson. Last update: 17apr94. | |
playgame.FAQ | |
[30-Mar-2002] | |
Playing the Interactive Fiction Archive Games | |
version 1.74 (March 2002), by Stephen Griffiths. | |
[file is linked to games/playgame.FAQ] | |
playgame.FAQ_spanish | |
[15-Sep-2003] | |
Playing the Interactive Fiction Archive Games, | |
translated into Spanish. | |
Version 1.72 (August 2001). | |
rec.arts.int-fiction.FAQ | |
[20-Jul-2003] | |
The Frequently Asked Questions of the newsgroup | |
rec.arts.int-fiction, plain text version, | |
maintained by Stephen Griffiths. | |
[file is linked to rec.arts.int-fiction/FAQ] | |
rec.arts.int-fiction.FAQ.htm | |
[20-Jul-2003] | |
The Frequently Asked Questions of the newsgroup | |
rec.arts.int-fiction, HTML version, | |
maintained by Stephen Griffiths. | |
[file is linked to rec.arts.int-fiction/FAQ.htm] | |
rec.games.int-fiction.FAQ | |
[1-Feb-1997] | |
The Frequently Asked Questions of newsgroup | |
rec.games.int-fiction, by Stephen van Egmond | |
Last update: 31jan97. | |
[file is linked to rec.games.int-fiction/FAQ] | |
sinclair-ql.txt | |
[23-Feb-2008] | |
An article on Infocom and Inform text adventures | |
on the Sinclair QL, written by Tim Swenson, from | |
the magazine QL Today. | |
tads-gamelist1.txt | |
[14-Jan-1993] | |
The Complete, Unofficial List of TADS Games | |
v3.00 (jan93), by Alan Mead. | |
[file is linked to games/tads/tads-gamelist1.txt] | |
tads-gamelist2.txt | |
[22-Aug-1996] | |
The (Other) TADS Game List, version 1.2 (20aug96), | |
by Gerry Kevin Wilson and Paul David Doherty. | |
[file is linked to games/tads/tads-gamelist2.txt] | |
timeline.pdf | |
[21-Aug-2002] | |
A Brief History of Interactive Fiction, a | |
graphical timeline covering through 2000, by | |
Misty and Stephen Granade. | |
tolkien-games.list | |
[2-Nov-1995] | |
A list of computer games related to the works of | |
J.R.R. Tolkien, by Fredrik Ekman (ver 1.8, nov95). | |
This list is no longer maintained; it has been | |
replaced by a set of web pages you can find at | |
http://adventure.if-legends.org/ | |
whichsys-alan-update.txt | |
[21-Dec-1999] | |
An update to the ALAN information in whichsys.zip. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/whichsys-alan-update.txt] | |
whichsys-tads-update.txt | |
[15-Oct-1998] | |
An update to the TADS information in whichsys.zip, | |
by Neil K. Guy, 15oct98. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/whichsys-tads-update.txt] | |
whichsys.zip | |
[11-Mar-1996] | |
The "Which Authoring System Is Better" FAQ, | |
revision 0.1, 20feb96, initial publication, | |
a detailed discussion and comparison of 10 IF | |
authoring systems (TADS, Inform, ALAN, Hugo, AGT, | |
Archetype, GINAS, LADS, Gamescape, and Aventuro) | |
by Bob Newell. | |
This file contains the document in four formats: | |
PostScript, TeX, DVI, and plain ASCII text. | |
[file is linked to | |
programming/general-discussion/whichsys.zip] | |
The IF Archive is a public service of the | |
Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. | |
http://iftechfoundation.org/ | |
This mirror is a public service of 661.org. | |
http://661.org/ |