Stories scribbled on screens
TL/DR: Play Galactic Hitchhiker online Fit the First I ve always said that if this blog had a slogan it would probably be something like “Retroactive Fiction: Very tentatively recommended.” So imagine my surprise when I read Jason Dyer s blogpost about Continue reading
BeebScott: a tool for converting and playing Scott Adams text adventure games on the BBC Micro Continue reading
Amazing Quest: playing and porting a strange entry in the 2020 Interactive Fiction Competition Continue reading
The troubled saga of how I ported the classic Scott Adams game Adventureland to the BBC Micro Continue reading
Does anyone know of a working, playable version of Scott Adams s text adventure game Pirate Adventure as published in the December 1980 issue of BYTE magazine? I couldn t find one, which was a shame because I was trying to learn Continue reading
I ll admit it: I don t know very much about MUDs. (Nor am I familiar with the various spinoffs — the MUCKs, MOOs and MUSHes — that proliferated in the early days of the Net.) Many years ago, I would occasionally Continue reading
For the last few days inform7.com has been unavailable. The site is the official host of the Inform 7 IDE. UPDATE: I ve been informed that the outage is due to an unexpected error that affected the CMS for the Inform Continue reading
One Room is a text adventure game written by Jorge Mir for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was published as a program-listing in the first Rainbow Book of Adventures in 1983. One Room is set in a single room (duh), Continue reading
Maze of Madness is a modern game for an ancient computer (namely the 8-bit BBC Micro, which this blog seems to endlessly bang on about). Well, I say game , but it s more of a demo – a demo of a Continue reading
Xanadu Adventure is a text adventure game that was written for the BBC Micro by Paul Shave in 1982. Typically for the time, Shave was strongly influenced by Crowther and Woods s Colossal Cave, and Xanadu therefore featured the requisite stream, Continue reading
Previously I wrote about The Discovery, which is the first of two works of interactive fiction (known together as Galaxy s Edge) that were written for the 8-bit BBC Micro in 1984 by Graham Nelson. The Discovery is, more or less, a conventional Continue reading
In February 2016, the BBC broadcast a radio documentary about interactive fiction called Skill, Stamina and Luck. It focused largely on gamebooks like Fighting Fantasy, Choose Your Own Adventure, and some interesting historical examples — but it also took in parser Continue reading
Galaxy's Edge (1984) – an early text adventure game by interactive-fiction legend Graham Nelson Continue reading
[Play Arendarvon Castle online] [backup] In previous posts, I wrote about Wander (1974), the interactive fiction creation tool for mainframe Unix systems. But my speciality (I use the word laughably) is text adventure games for the BBC Micro, the legendary Continue reading
Previously I wrote about Wander, the 1974 mainframe text adventure game-creation system by Peter Langston, which was recently rediscovered. You can now play Wander online. This em-dosbox repackaging of a DOS port of Wander was created by me, using blunt Continue reading
Wander was possibly the first program for creating text-adventure games. Once thought lost, it has now been found. Continue reading
A video playthrough of the classic 1980s educational mathematics game L A Mathemagical Adventure by the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics, for the 8-bit BBC Micro computer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMeuxsvk3k list=PLy5HwFxc67UFERGEqbKU-Ky74QwEtuLsm