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'.
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Colossal-Cave.TidBITS 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 a note from Bernie Cosell on the origin of the
original ADVENT game
The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition,
Five Articles on the Design of Adventure Games
by Graham Nelson
Craft.Of.Adventure.tex the original TeX version
Craft.Of.Adventure.A4.ps PostScript version for A4 paper
Craft.Of.Adventure.hlp Windows 3.1 Help format
Craft.Of.Adventure.letter.ps PostScript version for US letter size paper
Craft.Of.Adventure.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Craft.Of.Adventure.pkg Newton book format, converted by Eric Brown
Craft.Of.Adventure.txt plain text version
[all of these files are linked to
programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.*]
Sherlock.zip 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 The Z-Files, a Z-Code Catalog
Michael Baum's catalog of Z-Code games and programs
converted to a Windows 98 Compiled Help File
by Paul de Valmency
[file is linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog.chm]
ZCatalog990722.zip 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
ZCatalog990722.zip detailed description of the above
[files are linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog990722.*]
adv-tree.txt the Adventure family tree, detailing all the
known versions of Adventure, as constructed by
Russell Dalenberg
advent.html a WWW page describing all the versions of
Adventure found here at the IF Archive, written
by David Kinder
adventure-game-list information about adventure games and the companies
that made them, collected by Hans Persson.
This is a text version of the author's web pages
starting at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/,
created 06feb1999.
adventure-game-systems a list of adventure authoring systems, both
commercial, free, and for in-house development,
by Hans Persson. Last update: 10may94.
author-list.txt 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 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 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 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 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 The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers,
by James Hague; last updated 15 May 2001.
dumb_reviews.txt Two collections of game reviews, written
dumb_reviews2.txt by "Quentin D. Thompson"
feedback-guide.txt Jacob's Guide to Giving Constructive Feedback on IF
by Jacob Solomon Weinstein
[file is linked to
rec.arts.int-fiction/feedback-guide.txt]
ftpstats94.txt ftp download counts for all the files in this
ftpstats95.txt archive, one year per file, sorted by
ftpstats96.txt path/filename; prepared by Werner Icking
ftpstats97.txt
ftpstats98.txt
ftpstats99.txt
ftpstats00.txt
guidadv1.txt Adventurist's Guide Through Textual Adventures,
Part I (for novices), by Vladimir Krstulja
hound-manual.zip Manual for The Hound Of Shadow, by
Eldritch Games, scanned into HTML format
by Frederic Bassaler
if-bibliography.txt Interactive Fiction Bibliography (4/97)
compiled by Stephen Granade
if-page.zip Paul Gilbert's IF WWW page.
inform-gamelist.txt 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 the beginning of a compilation of information
concerning multi-user adventure games,
by Hans Persson. Last update: 17apr94.
playgame.FAQ Playing the Interactive Fiction Archive Games
version 1.7 (November 2000), by Stephen Griffiths
[file is linked to games/playgame.FAQ]
rec.arts.int-fiction.FAQ 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 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 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]
tads-gamelist1.txt 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 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]
tolkien-games.list 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 WWW pages you can find at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/
whichsys.zip 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]
whichsys-alan-update.txt an update to the ALAN information in whichsys.zip
[file is linked to
programming/general-discussion/whichsys-alan-update.txt]
whichsys-tads-update.txt 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]
