Note: The `*-text` files were uploaded by Stu Galley from his | |
private archive (read: attic) | |
57 items: | |
AmigaWorld86.txt | |
[14-Jan-1996] | |
Two articles from AmigaWorld January/February 1986, | |
pages 70-73, transcribed by Kirk Davies: | |
The Wizard of Wishbringer - | |
"A totally objective, highly critical and unbiased | |
interview with Infocom game designer Brian Moriarty, | |
by Brian Moriarty." | |
Tour of a Dream Factory - | |
A visitor's description of Infocom, by Bob Liddil | |
BYTE_1981-02_Zork_Advert.pdf | |
[17-Feb-2012] | |
Zork Advert, from Byte February 1981. | |
BYTE_1981-02_Zork_Product_Review.pdf | |
[17-Feb-2012] | |
Review of Zork by Bob Liddil, from Byte February 1981. | |
Dan_Horn_interview.mp3 | |
[13-Oct-2015] | |
ANTIC Interview 88 with Dan Horn, technical director | |
at Infocom. Hosted by Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and | |
Brad Arnold. | |
Discover_March1984.pdf | |
[28-Jan-2004] | |
"Games With a Real Byte To Them," by Gary Taubes, | |
published in the March 1984 issue of Discover | |
magazine. | |
Enchanter_Ahoy_Mar84.pdf | |
[6-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Enchanter, from Ahoy March 1984. | |
Family_Computing_Apr88_Beyond_Zork.pdf | |
[5-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Beyond Zork, from Family Computing April 1988. | |
Family_Computing_Dec86_Disk_Drive_Detectives.pdf | |
[4-Jul-2013] | |
"Disk Drive Detectives: Make Fiction Come Alive with | |
Mystery Games", by Shay Addams. Features "Deadline," | |
"The Witness," "Ballyhoo," and other games. From Family | |
Computing December 1986. | |
Family_Computing_Dec87_Stationfall.jpg | |
[4-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Stationfall, from Family Computing December 1987. | |
Family_Computing_Feb87_Trinity.jpg | |
[4-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Trinity, from Family Computing February 1987. | |
Family_Computing_Jun84_Blank_Berlyn_interview.pdf | |
[1-Jul-2013] | |
"The Hard-Boiled School of Software: An Interview with | |
Marc Blank and Mike Berlyn of Infocom", | |
from Family Computing June 1984. | |
Family_Computing_Jun84_Suspended.pdf | |
[1-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Suspended, from Family Computing June 1984. | |
Family_Computing_Jun85_Hitchhikers_Guide.jpg | |
[2-Jul-2013] | |
Review of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from | |
Family Computing June 1985. | |
Family_Computing_Jun85_Wander_into_Wonderland.pdf | |
[2-Jul-2013] | |
"Wander Into Wonderland: Adventure Games Take You on a | |
Vacation to a Place as Vivid as Your Imagination." An | |
article about the appeal of adventure games, with an | |
emphasis on Infocom. Also includes a sidebar interview | |
with Douglas Adams. From Family Computing June 1985. | |
Family_Computing_May87_Moonmist.jpg | |
[4-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Moonmist, from Family Computing May 1987. | |
Family_Computing_Sep83_Zork1.pdf | |
[1-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Zork 1, from Family Computing September 1983. | |
Games.87 | |
[7-Dec-1993] | |
They Take the High-Tech Route to Adventure, | |
by Burt Hochberg | |
from Games magazine August/September 1987 | |
GamingWorld91.txt | |
[15-Feb-1995] | |
Excerpt from A History of Computer Games, by Johnny Wilson | |
from Computer Gaming World, November 1991 | |
Globe84-text | |
[9-Mar-1993] | |
Masters of the Game, by Richard Dyer | |
from "The Boston Globe" Magazine, May 6, 1984 | |
NYT83-text | |
[10-Mar-1993] | |
Participatory Novels, by Edward Rothstein | |
from The New York Times BOOK REVIEW, May 8, 1983 | |
NZT-Briggs.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Infocom's First Romance: Plundered Hearts author | |
Amy Briggs talks about why she chose to write an | |
interactive romance | |
from The Status Line, Winter 1987, page 9 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-Fooblitzky.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Fooblitzky Keeps Puzzle-Solvers Busy | |
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1986, pages 1 and 5 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-GUEtech.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Is It GUE Tech or MIT? Dave Lebling Explains It... | |
from The Status Line, Winter/Spring 1988, page 5 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-InfoBets-text | |
[6-Dec-1993] | |
How much you wanna bet? Dinner in Paris or Tokyo - | |
A history of InfoBets (anonymous) and | |
California Academy of Sciences debuts 'Marathon of the | |
Minds', by Stu Galley | |
from The Status Line, Winter/Spring 1987 | |
NZT-Sandusky-text | |
[6-Dec-1993] | |
Upper Sandusky: No, it's not on Lake Erie and there | |
isn't a Joe's, by Steve Meretzky | |
from The Status Line, Fall 1987 | |
NZT-Sasha-text | |
[6-Dec-1993] | |
Sasha Blunderbraas: Prime Virtuosa, by S. Eric Merescu | |
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985 | |
NZT-Suspect.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Suspect Author Suspected, by Dave Lebling | |
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, page 8 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-Witness-text | |
[2-Mar-1993] | |
How "The Witness" Came to Be | |
from The New Zork Times, Summer 1984 | |
NZT-ZQ-text | |
[8-Mar-1993] | |
Good-Bye to The Status Line, Hello to ZQ (Zork Quarterly) | |
NZT-Zorkhistory.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Three articles on the history of Zork, transcribed by | |
Graeme Cree: | |
The History of Zork - First in a Series, by | |
Tim Anderson, from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, | |
pages 6-7 and 11 | |
The History of Zork - Second in a Series, by | |
Tim Anderson, from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985, | |
pages 3-5 | |
The History of Zork - The Final (?) Chapter: MIT, | |
MDL, ZIL, ZIP; by Stu Galley, from The New Zork Times, | |
Summer 1985, pages 4-5 | |
NZT-advice.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
A collection of New Zork Times advice columns, | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree: | |
Ask Duffy, from Summer 1984, page 5 | |
Ask Jennifer, from Winter 1985, page 5 | |
Dear Miss Underground Manners, from The Status Line, | |
Fall 1986, page 2 | |
NZT-answers.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Frank Answers to the Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions | |
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1984, page 1-2 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-atomic-text | |
[6-Dec-1993] | |
How I Spent My Summer Vacation, by Brian Moriarty | |
from ****, Spring 1986 | |
from The Status Line, Spring 1989 | |
NZT-falcon.txt | |
[5-Sep-1995] | |
The Shrinkwrapped Falcon, by A. Dashiell Meretzky | |
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, page 3 | |
typed in by Dave Robeson | |
NZT-gamedev.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Inside Look at Game Development | |
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1984, page 4 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-horoscope.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
A collection of New Zork Times horoscopes, | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree: | |
Infocom Horoscope, from Spring 1984, page 3 | |
Your Weekly Horoscope by Omar, from The Status Line, | |
Summer 1986, page 2 | |
NZT-music.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Music From the Great Underground Empire | |
(reprinted from U.S. News and Dungeon Report, 9/18/951) | |
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985, page 8 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-name-text | |
[2-Mar-1993] | |
A Zork By Any Other Name | |
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1984 | |
NZT-parser.txt | |
[23-Aug-1995] | |
Parser??? by Stu Galley | |
from The Status Line, Spring 1989, page 2 | |
transcribed by Graeme Cree | |
NZT-testing-text | |
[6-Dec-1993] | |
They're never satisfied, by Dave Lebling | |
from The New Zork Times, Fall 1984 | |
Newsweek85-text | |
[10-Mar-1993] | |
Lost in Computer Fiction, by Bill Barol | |
from Newsweek, December 23, 1985 | |
PCjoker92.txt | |
[31-Jan-1994] | |
Ein offenes Gespraech mit Steve Meretzky (German) | |
interview from PC Joker 5/92 (September/October 1992) | |
PCjoker94.txt | |
[31-Jan-1994] | |
Ein offenes Gespraech mit Infocom (German) | |
an interview with Eddie Dombrower and William D. Volk, | |
the makers of Return to Zork | |
from PC Joker 2/94 (February 1994) | |
PCjoker95.txt | |
[28-Jun-1995] | |
Ein offenes Gespraech mit Bob Bates (German) | |
interview from PC Joker 7/8'95 (July/August 1995) | |
Post83-text | |
[10-Mar-1993] | |
Through the Zorking Glass, by Curt Suplee | |
from The Washington Post, December 22, 1983 | |
PowerPlay.91 | |
[14-Apr-1994] | |
Schmiede der Legenden (German) | |
an interview with Bob Bates, from Power Play 12/91 | |
PowerPlayHHGTTG.txt | |
[5-Apr-1999] | |
An interview with Douglas Adams about | |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from | |
Commodore Power/Play, April/May 1985 | |
Practical82.txt | |
[17-Jun-1994] | |
Zork - Magic Meets Science Fiction, by Peter Fitch | |
from Practical Computing, April 1982 | |
Suspended_Ahoy_Jan84.pdf | |
[6-Jul-2013] | |
Review of Suspended, from Ahoy January 1984. | |
Time83-text | |
[10-Mar-1993] | |
Putting Fiction on a Floppy, by Philip Elmer-De Witt | |
from TIME, December 5, 1983 | |
YC-87.txt | |
[28-Jul-1994] | |
Infocom Special by Roger Garret, from Your Computer | |
March 1987, and Profile: Infocom's Dave Lebling by | |
Mike Gerrard, from Your Computer May 1987 | |
typed in by Torbjoern Andersson | |
Your64.txt | |
[15-Jul-1996] | |
A review of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", | |
from Your 64, July 1985. Typed in by David Kinder | |
articles.zip | |
[7-Jan-1993] | |
Articles by and interviews with Infocom writers | |
compiled by Paul David Doherty. Contents: | |
IEEE Computer, 1979: "Zork: A Computerized Fantasy | |
Simulation Game" by Lebling/Blank/Anderson | |
Creative Computing, 1980: "How to Fit a Large Program | |
Into a Small Machine" by Blank/Galley | |
Byte, 1980: "Zork and the Future of Computerized | |
Fantasy Simulations" by Lebling | |
Mike Gerrard's Lebling Interview (1987) | |
Paul Rigby's Moriarty Interview | |
New Zork Times, 1985: "The History of Zork" by | |
Anderson/Galley | |
globe.890522 | |
[6-Dec-1993] | |
Computer-Games Firm Moving to California, by Ronald | |
Rosenberg. From Boston Globe, Monday May 22, 1989 | |
infidel.txt | |
[14-Oct-1996] | |
INFIDEL (Infocom) vs SANDS OF EGYPT (Datasoft) | |
Reviewed by Michael Blanchet. | |
From Computer Games, July/August 1984 | |
typed in by Joe Barlow | |
trinityCG.txt | |
[12-Sep-1998] | |
Review of Trinity, from Compute!'s Gazette, March | |
1987. Scanned in by Patrick Kellum. | |
zzap64.txt | |
[27-Jul-1993] | |
Four Minds Forever Voyaging, by Sean Masterson | |
(interviews with Dave Lebling, Steve Meretzky, | |
Stu Galley, and Carl Genatossio) | |
from ZZAP! 64; typed in by Hans Persson | |
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