Colossal Cave Adventure Page
rickadams.org
History of the original 'Adventure' by Crowther and Woods, information about the real Colossal Cave, hints, and downloads of various versions of the game.
SPAG: Interview with Adam Cadre
sparkynet.com
Interview after winning 2 Xyzzy awards for Photopia. Topics include what got him interested in IF, puzzles vs. stories, and interactivity vs. non-interactivity.
Stephan's Retrocomputing Site: Rendezvous with Rama
retrosite.de
PC and Apple II binaries as well as the manual.
The Blorb Resources Format
inform-fiction.org
Format which embeds all needed resources for a given story into one file. Site describes perlBlorb and has one downloadable game to demonstrate the system.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
csd.uwo.ca
Stu Galley's explanation of why the sequel was never released.
Joe Mason on So Far
df.lth.se
Describes his thoughts on the game.
Adventure server
forkexec.com
Play online. BSD version (requires Java or Telnet).
Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: Jinxter
if-legends.org
Description, box art, package contents, reviews, cheats and hints.
Yazi
ifarchive.org
Z-Machine interpereter for the Apple Newton PDA. Shareware. ($25)
Viola
sourceforge.net
An interpreter written in Python.
YSRnRY Review
ysrnry.co.uk
Rated 9/10 by Mike Gerrard.
Z-Machine Specification
ifarchive.org
The definitive guide to the Z-Machine. Get the highest version available. Currently, pdf and html formats are available.
The Z-Files
la.utexas.edu
An index and guide to over 275 programs - mostly games - in z-code.
MobyGames: Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder
mobygames.com
Description and cover pictures.
Gnusto
gnusto.org
Z-machine interpreter for Mozilla
Interactive Fiction Archive Mirror
ifarchive.org
WWW version of the IF Archive
Delphi: Colossal Cave Adventure forum
forums.delphiforums.com
Forum for discussion of Adventure in its various forms.
Matthew Murray's Review
matthewmurray.net
Capsule review. "Adventure is worth playing today for the nostalgia and for the fact that well-designed games never do go out of style."
Mipmip
mipmip.org
Mike Arnautov's site includes a humor section, downloads of A-code implementations of some Adventure versions, as well as various personal works.
'Invisiclues' for 'So Far'
bioc.rice.edu
Lucian Smith's game hints in the style of Infocom's InvisiClues.
Magnetic
magnetic.sourceforge.net
An interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls adventures.
MaxZip
eblong.com
A port of Zip to the Mac. Can build stand-alone executable containing interpreter and game file. Requires System 7 or 8.
Unofficial Legend: Spellcasting 301
waitingforgo.com
Description, box image, walkthrough.
Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: The Guild of Thieves
if-legends.org
Description, package details, cheats and hints.
Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: So Far
wurb.com
Rated 5/5 by Carl Muckenhoupt. "Highly emotional and pleasantly confusing." Links to play online and download.
Adventure Collective review
adventurecollective.com
[4.5/5] "The last break?" by Matthew Murray
XYZZYnews: Romancing the Genre
xyzzynews.com
An interview with game author Amy Briggs by Neil deMause.
Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive
baf.wurb.com
Searchable index of the IFArchive, with reviews and details of any competitions won.
Infocom Games: Hitchhiker's Guide
infocom-if.org
Box scans, introduction, specifications and sample transcript.
Frotz -- A Portable Z-Machine Interpreter
cs.csubak.edu
Interpreter for Z-Machine games. Ported to MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, Amiga, Unix, and Apple IIgs.
PocketTADS
progsoc.org
TADS interpreter for PocketPC.
Adam Cadre
adamcadre.ac
Author's site with interactive fiction, information about the novel "Ready, Okay!", the ongoing webcomic ACX, a journal, and music.
AdamCadre.ac: Games
adamcadre.ac
Author's website. Download Photopia in Z-machine or PC executable format, play it online using Java, or read about the making of the game.
Infocom Documentation Project
infodoc.plover.net
PDF file of scanned original game manual.
Review by Matthew Murray
matthewmurray.net
"Few computer games have ever achieved as much on as many different levels as A Mind Forever Voyaging."
ST-Log Review
infocom.gerf.org
"Plundered Hearts is one small step for womankind, sideways." By Betty D. DeMunn.
Lucian Smith's Home Page
bioc.rice.edu
Site includes links to his interactive fiction projects such as the IF Bookclub, and many of his writings on the subject of interactive fiction.
Zoom
logicalshift.demon.co.uk
ZMachine for UNIX and XWindows or MS Windows.
Interactive Fiction Starter's Kits
geocities.com
Aims to provide an easy way of trying some modern interactive fiction.
IF-Review: A Step
ministryofpeace.com
"Plotkin's symbolism is merged wholly with the landscape; it *is* the landscape." By Emily Short.
Unofficial Legend: Spellcasting 101
waitingforgo.com
Description, box image, walkthrough.
Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: Varicella
wurb.com
Rated 5/5 by Duncan Stevens. "Twisted, bleak, and filled with dark humor, Varicella is perhaps the most disturbing work of IF ever written--but it's also one of the best." Links to game and walkthrough.
SPAG Reviews
sparkynet.com
Two reviews by Graeme Cree and Gerhard Peterz.
Stephan's Retrocomputing Site: The Serpent's Star
retrosite.de
Contains binaries for Apple II and Commodore 64 as well as a solution.
Stephan's Retrocomputing Site: Perry Mason - The Case of the Mandarin Murder
retrosite.de
DOS and Commodore 64 binaries as well as the manual.
Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: I-0
wurb.com
Rated 4/5 by Carl Muckenhoupt. "Any particular session will be quite short, but the game is highly replayable due to its many alternate paths and solutions." Links to play online, download, and source code.
David Tanguay's Review
sentex.net
Rated -2 on -5 to +5 scale. "If there was a good story to go with it, the first adventure game would have also been one of the best."
XZip
eblong.com
A port of Zip to X-Windows (runs under *nix). Emacs style key bindings.
GameSpot's TenSpot: The Ten Best Endings
gamespot.com
One of GameSpot's ten favorite computer game endings. Contains spoilers.
Infocom Homepage: A Mind Forever Voyaging
csd.uwo.ca
Description, box art, release information, game statistics, and packaging details.
Gamez.com: Colossal Cave
gamez.com
Gamez.com's collection of Colossal Cave cheats and solutions.
Adventure Collective review
adventurecollective.com
[4/5] by Joshua Mintzer
AdamCadre.ac: Games
adamcadre.ac
Author's website. Download I-0 or play it online using Java.
Zarfhome: So Far
eblong.com
Author's website. Download free or play Java version online.
Unofficial Legend: Frederik Pohl's Gateway
waitingforgo.com
Description, box image, walkthrough.
ZipCE
geocities.com
A Z machine interpreter for Windows CE.
Unofficial Legend: Spellcasting 201
waitingforgo.com
Description, box image, walkthrough.
iFiction: Ad Verbum
ifiction.org
Play the original competition release on-line.
The Infocom Gallery: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
infocom.elsewhere.org
High-quality scans of packaging, manual, "Don't Panic!" button, pocket fluff, demolition orders, and microscopic space fleet.
GameFAQs: Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance
gamefaqs.com
Review of the game.
Review by Andrew Pontious
brasslantern.org
"If it were a small, conventional game, I would recommend it."
Kwest
users.telenet.be
A Z-machine interpreter for KDE.
Infocom Homepage: Plundered Hearts
csd.uwo.ca
Description, box art, release information, statistics, and packaging details.
Zip 2000
bracey-griffith.freeserve.co.uk
Zip for RISC OS.
AdamCadre.ac: Games
adamcadre.ac
Author's website. Download free in Z-machine or PC executable format, or play it online with Java.
Jetty
drizzle.com
TADS 2 interpreter written in Java, by Dan Shiovitz.
Andrew Plotkin's Home Page
eblong.com
Andrew Plotkin home page, the author of So Far, 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition winner A Change in the Weather, and Shade.
The Infocom Gallery: Plundered Hearts
infocom.elsewhere.org
High-quality scans of the packaging, instruction manual, letter, and fifty guinea note.
The Infocom Gallery: A Mind Forever Voyaging
infocom.elsewhere.org
High-quality scans of manual, packaging, pen, codewheel, and map. Text of prologue short story from manual.
Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: Wonderland
if-legends.org
Description, box art, box contents, cheats and hints.
HyperTADS
teladesign.com
Multimedia TADS interpreter for Macintosh System 7 to MacOS 9.
SPAG Reviews
sparkynet.com
Reviews of 2000 competition entry by Mark J. Musante and Duncan Stevens.
Adventure Collective Review
adventurecollective.com
"In short, Gateway is well designed and fun to play. The only thing that keeps me from giving it higher marks is that it is not an exceptional title--merely a very good one"
Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: The Pawn
if-legends.org
Description, box art, package contents, reviews, walkthroughs.
SPAG Reviews
sparkynet.com
Reviews by Paul O'Brian, Duncan Stevens, Brian Blackwell, and David Ledgard.
Your Sinclair Review
ysrnry.co.uk
Rated 9/10 by Mike Gerrard. "Jinxter leaves you laughing and scratching your head simultaneously. Yet another essential purchase for Spectrum adventure lovers."
iFiction: Varicella
ifiction.org
Play the game on-line.
ZBurin for Cybiko
inging.iwarp.com
Preliminary screenshots of a z-code interpreter for the Cybiko.
Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: Photopia
wurb.com
Rated 5/5 by Carl Muckenhoupt. "This is probably the most successful example I've seen of interactivity at the service of fiction, rather than vice versa." Links to play online, downloads, walkthrough.
Review by Andrew Plotkin
eblong.com
Review of 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition entry. "Three kow-tows and a bout of swearing."
Ad Verbum
nickm.com
Official site of Nick Montfort. Includes downloads or browser trial.
Adventure Collective Review
adventurecollective.com
"Gateway II should be considered a minor classic in my opinion."
Transcript of ifMUD Forum Interview
ministryofpeace.com
Ian Finley gives advice for interactive fiction authors and talks about writing Babel.
Colossal Cave Adventure Forum
forums.about.com
A place to discuss the Crowther and Woods "Adventure" game in all its various versions.
Playing TADS Games
tela.bc.ca
TADS games can be run on most popular modern computers. If your machine has at least a megabyte or two of memory, there's a good chance you'll be able to play a game written in TADS.
Colossal Cave Mazes
quietfire.com
A homage to some of the more treacherous trails the Colossal Cave contained.
DouglasAdams.com: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Adventure Game
douglasadams.com
Play the text adventure on-line using Java on Douglas Adams' website.
Stephan's Retrocomputing Site: Amazon
retrosite.de
Binaries for Commodore 64 and Apple II. Also a solution.
Crash: St Brides
crashonline.org.uk
Interview about St. Brides. [Crash magazine]
Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: Winchester's Nightmare
wurb.com
Capsule review, game information, and downloads.
Matthew Murray's Review
matthewmurray.net
Capsule review. "An excellent game throughout, good for fans of the first Gateway or science-fiction in general."
Glk: An Interface Standard for Interactive Fiction
eblong.com
This I/O library maintains portability. Libraries are available for many systems.
Review by Matthew Murray
matthewmurray.net
Capsule review. "If you like pirate or romance stories, you will like this game, but if you do not, there is little else to truly distinguish, or recommend, this game."
Turn To Page
turntopage.com
Text adventures, reviews, adventure gamebooks and walkthroughs from IF author Cannibal.
SPAG Reviews
sparkynet.com
Reviews by Alistair G. Thomas and Duncan Stevens.
SPAG Review
sparkynet.com
"The end result works better from a purely literary standpoint than as interactive fiction--an experiment worth trying, perhaps, but not all that satisfying for the player." By Duncan Stevens.
New Zork Times: New Release: A Mind Forever Voyaging
csd.uwo.ca
Text of game announcement from Infocom's newsletter.
Nitfol
ifarchive.org
An interpreter intended for debugging. Includes auto-map feature, and debugging (cheat) verbs. Requires Glk for I/O.
How to play Interactive Fiction and Text Adventure Games on Windows PCs
actrix.gen.nz
How to set up a Windows PC to play interactive fiction and text adventure games. Shows how to install HTML TADS and WinFrotz software to play TADS and Inform games.
SPAG Review
sparkynet.com
"This is one of the best-written works of IF ever, bar none." Analytical review by Duncan Stevens.
Malyon
ifarchive.org
A Z-Machine interpreter for GNU Emacs. May be useful combined with the Emacs Inform major mode.
Kronos
codejedi.com
Palm OS interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls, Infocom-style ZMachine, and Scott Adams style adventure games
Status Line: Peril & Passion in Plundered Hearts
csd.uwo.ca
Text of game announcement from Infocom's newsletter.
MobyGames: Plundered Hearts
mobygames.com
User reviews, credits, box image, trivia, and other information.
Glk
eblong.com
An I/O library used to make interpreters more portable. You need this if your interpreter says it requires Glk.
Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: Ad Verbum
wurb.com
Capsule review, game information, and downloads.
Status Line: Infocom's First Romance
csd.uwo.ca
Plundered Hearts author Amy Briggs talks about why she chose to write an interactive romance.
Prof. Dennis G. Jerz: Colossal Cave Adventure
jerz.setonhill.edu
About the history of the game and examples from some different versions.
Z9K
artilect.co.uk
Z-code Interpreter for the Nokia Communicator.
Revenge of the Z-Machine
speakeasy.org
A z-machine interpreter in Java.
Jzip Development
jzip.sourceforge.net
Open Source Z-code interpreter for UNIX, DOS, OS/2, Atari ST and other machines.
Winchester's Nightmare
nickm.com
Official site of Nick Montfort. Includes downloads and web version.
Unofficial Legend: Gateway II: Homeworld
waitingforgo.com
Description, box image, walkthrough.
Infocom Homepage: HGttG
csd.uwo.ca
Description, release information, statistics, and packaging details.
Your Sinclair Review
ysrnry.co.uk
Rated 9/10 by Mike Gerrard. "I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now."
Matthew Murray's Review
matthewmurray.net
Capsule review. "There is an excellent story that develops throughout the game and is brought to a satisfying conclusion that still leaves room for the series to expand and grow."
Your Sinclair Review
ysrnry.co.uk
Rated 9/10 by Mike Gerrard. "Spectrum adventurers should definitely like Fish!"
New Zork Times: Don't Panic
csd.uwo.ca
Text of game announcement from Infocom's newsletter.
Nord and Bert with Attitude
ministryofpeace.com
Review of competition release by Mark J. Musante. "This was the game that made the whole competition for me."
Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: Corruption
if-legends.org
Description, game package contents, cheats and hints.
The Z-Machine Standards Document
gnelson.demon.co.uk
The fundamental information about how the Z-machine works.
Unofficial Legend: Eric the Unready
waitingforgo.com
Description, box image, walkthrough.
Blorb: A Z-Machine Resource Collection Format Standard
eblong.com
Format for sound and graphics in Z-Machine games. Includes sample C code to get started with.
BBC Interview with Steve Meretzky
bbc.co.uk
Steve Meretzky talks about Douglas Adams, game difficulty, non-linearity, and deadlines. [Contains puzzle spoilers.]
Radio 4 Revives Hitchhiker's Game
news.bbc.co.uk
A Douglas Adams game is revived to mark a new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy radio series. [BBC News]
Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: Fish!
if-legends.org
Description, box art, box contents, reviews, walkthroughs.
Matthew Murray's Review
matthewmurray.net
Capsule review. "One of the first games of 1993, and certainly one of the best of that year."
Quandary Review
quandaryland.com
"Which ever way you choose to play it's all good fun." By Gordon Aplin.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
bbc.co.uk
An illustrated, on-line playable (Flash) 20th anniversary version.
Stephan's Retrocomputing Site: Fahrenheit 451
retrosite.de
Preserves the Apple // and Commodore 64 binaries of the classic graphic adventure.