the following files have arrived at the Interactive Fiction Archive at
ftp.gmd.de:/if-archive and should be available soon at the mirror sites
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/if-archive
ftp.funet.fi:/pub/misc/if-archive
gateway1.brisnet.org.au/pub/if-stuff (partial mirror; infocom and games)
betas/Specification.tex
The Specification of the Z-Machine and Inform assembly language,
by Graham Nelson. Standard 0.2: 15th November 1995.
betas/jzipstb3.zip
John Holder's JZIP Infocom interpreter, ported to the Atari 16 and 32 bit
computers with MiNT or TOS by Dancer. Version 2.01f beta 3.
emulators/...
this is a new directory for programs that emulate ancient machines on more
current ones. So far there are only emulators that run on IBM PCs:
emulators/atari/xf251.zip
PC Xformer, Atari 800/800XL emulator for PC with MS-DOS by Darek Mihocka.
Free version 2.51 (13jan95), complete.
emulators/atari/xf252.zip
PC Xformer, Atari 800/800XL emulator for PC with MS-DOS by Darek Mihocka.
Free version 2.52 (17apr95), executable and documentation only.
emulators/c64/64cpy209.zip
64COPY 2.06, by Peter Schepers. A C64 archive file converter for the PC,
modelled after Norton Commander 3.0.
emulators/c64/c64s.zip
C64S, Commodore 64 Software Emulator for PC by Miha Peternel.
Shareware version 1.0F (sep94), several games included.
emulators/c64/pc64e118.zip
Personal C64, The C64 Emulator for the PC, by Wolfgang Lorenz.
Shareware version 1.18.
emulators/c64/c64tools.zip
Rick's C=64 Emulator Tools, by Rick Brennan
emulators/spectrum/jpp.zip
JPP version 1.0 by Arnt Gulbrandsen. Emulates a Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Z80-based computer on any PC with at least a 386 processor and VGA
graphics. 14 games included.
emulators/spectrum/z80.zip
Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator by Gerton A. Lunter, shareware version 3.03.
Emulates ZX Spectrum 48k model 2 or 3 and Spectrum 128k on any PC with
640k base memory or EMS. 77 games included.
games/archimedes/bunbro.ddc
The Bungle Brothers, written for the BBC Micro and released into the public
domain at some time in the 80's. Ported to the Archimedes by J.J.Farmer.
His comments:
"The Plot (as I remember it): You are one of the Bungle Brothers,
criminals renowned throughout the underworld for their stupidity. Last
time, for example, your siblings carried out the job okay, but got into
the wrong getaway car, leaving you like a lemon in the right one.
Fortunately, before the police caught up with them, they managed to
stash the loot somewhere safe. Of course, they didn't bother to tell
you, and so the object of the game is to find it.
The Bungle Brothers is only a short game, with minimal text and just a
few puzzles. It's hardly a masterpiece."
games/atari-8bit/...
this is a new directory for games for 8 bit Atari computers (800, XL).
I received a bunch of those games; all I know about them is the file names,
so I just zipped them up into the following file:
games/atari-8bit/atari8gm.zip
games/atari-ST/
this is the old games/atari directory; it has only been renamed
games/infocom/Jigsaw.z8
new release 2 (951110) of Graham Nelson's game Jigsaw.
Complete version (game and help information); must be played with an
interpreter that can handle V8 games (e.g. JZIP or MaxZip).
The separate V5 versions of the game and the help files have also been
updated to release 2:
games/infocom/Jigsaw_Game.z5
games/infocom/Jigsaw_Footnotes.z5
games/infocom/christminster.z5
new release 3 (serial number 951107) of Christminster, by Gareth Rees
games/infocom/freefall.z5
new release 2 (serial number 951111) of Andrew Plotkin's Free Fall Z-code
demonstration. Source code is in games/source/inform/freefall.inf
games/infocom/robots.z5
new release 4 (15nov95) if Torbjoern Andersson's Robots game
source code is in infocom/compilers/inform/examples/robots.inf
games/infocom/weather.z5
new release 5 (serial number 951114) of Andrew Plotkin's game "A Change in
the Weather". Minor bug fix.
games/infocom/windhal1.z8
The Windhall Chronicles, Volume One: The Path to Fortune,
by Jeff Cassidy and Christopher E. Forman
games/source/inform/freefall.inf
new release 2 (serial number 951111) of Andrew Plotkin's Free Fall Z-code
demonstration. A compiled game is in games/infocom/freefall.z5
Release 1 of freefall.inf was in infocom/compilers/inform/examples.
infocom/compilers/inform/examples/form.inf
infocom/compilers/inform/examples/form.z5
new release 3 (15nov95) if Torbjoern Andersson's Bureaucracy-style form
infocom/compilers/inform/examples/robots.inf
new release 4 (15nov95) if Torbjoern Andersson's Robots game
a compiled game is in games/infocom/robots.z5
infocom/compilers/inform/library/contributions/showobj.h
new version 3 (07nov95) of David Wagner's Show Objects Library,
now compatible with the Inform library release 5/12
infocom/compilers/inform/library/contributions/smartcantgo.h
new version 3 (08nov95) of David Wagner's Smart `Can't Go' Library
infocom/interpreters/zip/Acorn_Zip2000_Std0.2.spk
Zip 2000 revision 0.2 for the Acorn Archimedes, by Kevin Bracey.
Features include:
* Support for Version 1,2,3,4,5,7 & 8 games.
* Full conformance to Graham Nelson's "Specification of the Z-machine",
Revision 0.2.
* Colour support.
* Timed-input support.
* Sound support.
* Mouse support.
* Full function key/cursor key/keypad support.
* Full foreign language support (including runes).
* Easily adjustable screen size.
* Full use of outline fonts.
* High speed - the fastest Z-code interpreter for RISC OS
infocom/interpreters/zip/MaxZip-140.hqx
infocom/interpreters/zip/MaxZip-140-source.hqx
new version 1.4.0 of Andrew Plotkin's MaxZip Infocom interpreter for the
Macintosh. Fat binary and Think C source code.
pogramming/gtac/gtac107.zip
Andrea Gallo's Graphic Text Adventure Creator for the Acorn Archimedes has
been replaced by a new release under the same name (very minor amendment
to memory management)
scott-adams/scott2zip.tar.gz
new version 1.00 of Bjorn Gustavsson's Scott2Zip, a Perl script to convert
Scott Adams data files from TRS-80 or TI-99/4 format to Inform source code
solutions/CursesR16.sol
solution to Curses release 16, by Marc Leduc.
Straightforward walkthrough, explanations and clue locations, history of
the Meldrews, dictionary of mythology, lagachable objects, amusing things
to do, different ways to open the medicine bottle - it's all there!
solutions/circus.hints
hints for Mysterious Adventure No. 6: Circus, typed in by Petter Sjoelund
solutions/magik.hints
hints for The Price of Magik (Level 9), typed in by Petter Sjoelund
solutions/solve_jg.arj
commented stepwise solutions to 87 games, by Jacob Gunness.
See solutions/Index for complete contents (many old text adventures).
Please put uploads into ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive
and send e-mail to Volker.Blasius@gmd.de describing the file(s) you uploaded.
Enjoy!
Volker