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AmigaWorld86.txt 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
Games.87 They Take the High-Tech Route to Adventure,
by Burt Hochberg
from Games magazine August/September 1987
GamingWorld91.txt excerpt from A History of Computer Games, by Johnny Wilson
from Computer Gaming World, November 1991
Globe84-text Masters of the Game, by Richard Dyer
from "The Boston Globe" Magazine, May 6, 1984
NYT83-text Participatory Novels, by Edward Rothstein
from The New York Times BOOK REVIEW, May 8, 1983
NZT-Briggs.txt 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 Fooblitzky Keeps Puzzle-Solvers Busy
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1986, pages 1 and 5
transcribed by Graeme Cree
NZT-GUEtech.txt 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 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 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 Sasha Blunderbraas: Prime Virtuosa, by S. Eric Merescu
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985
NZT-Suspect.txt Suspect Author Suspected, by Dave Lebling
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, page 8
transcribed by Graeme Cree
NZT-Witness-text How "The Witness" Came to Be
from The New Zork Times, Summer 1984
NZT-ZQ-text Good-Bye to The Status Line, Hello to ZQ (Zork Quarterly)
NZT-Zorkhistory.txt The History of Zork - First in a Series, by Tim Anderson
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, pages 6-7 and 11
- and -
The History of Zork - Second in a Series, by Tim Anderson
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985, pages 3-5
- and -
The History of Zork - The Final (?) Chapter: MIT, MDL,
ZIL, ZIP; by Stu Galley
from The New Zork Times, Summer 1985, pages 4-5
transcribed by Graeme Cree
NZT-advice.txt 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 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 How I Spent My Summer Vacation, by Brian Moriarty
from ****, Spring 1986
from The Status Line, Spring 1989
NZT-falcon.txt The Shrinkwrapped Falcon, by A. Dashiell Meretzky
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, page 3
typed in by Dave Robeson
NZT-gamedev.txt Inside Look at Game Development
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1984, page 4
transcribed by Graeme Cree
NZT-horoscope.txt 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 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 A Zork By Any Other Name
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1984
NZT-parser.txt Parser??? by Stu Galley
from The Status Line, Spring 1989, page 2
transcribed by Graeme Cree
NZT-testing-text They're never satisfied, by Dave Lebling
from The New Zork Times, Fall 1984
Newsweek85-text Lost in Computer Fiction, by Bill Barol
from Newsweek, December 23, 1985
PCjoker92.txt Ein offenes Gespraech mit Steve Meretzky (German)
interview from PC Joker 5/92 (September/October 1992)
PCjoker94.txt 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 Ein offenes Gespraech mit Bob Bates (German)
interview from PC Joker 7/8'95 (July/August 1995)
Post83-text Through the Zorking Glass, by Curt Suplee
from The Washington Post, December 22, 1983
PowerPlay.91 Schmiede der Legenden (German)
an interview with Bob Bates, from Power Play 12/91
PowerPlayHHGTTG.txt An interview with Douglas Adams about
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from
Commodore Power/Play, April/May 1985
Practical82.txt Zork - Magic Meets Science Fiction, by Peter Fitch
from Practical Computing, April 1982
Time83-text Putting Fiction on a Floppy, by Philip Elmer-De Witt
from TIME, December 5, 1983
YC-87.txt 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 A review of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy",
from Your 64, July 1985. Typed in by David Kinder
articles.zip 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 Computer-Games Firm Moving to California, by Ronald
Rosenberg. From Boston Globe, Monday May 22, 1989
infidel.txt INFIDEL (Infocom) vs SANDS OF EGYPT (Datasoft)
Reviewed by Michael Blanchet.
From Computer Games, July/August 1984
typed in by Joe Barlow
trinityCG.txt Review of Trinity, from Compute!'s Gazette, March
1987. Scanned in by Patrick Kellum.
zzap64.txt 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
