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Really great book. I had preordered it as a kind of semi-donation, to be honest, because I’ve never been that much into the various text gaming genres (and bec
by pavlov 3y ago
Really great book.
I had preordered it as a kind of semi-donation, to be honest, because I’ve never been that much into the various text gaming genres (and because I just spend too much on books that I want to exist but maybe not read that much).
But this book is so well curated and written, I found myself itching to play several
of these games from 1985 onwards. There’s a rich history of digital literature that I’ve completely missed.
The author also looks into the various games’ implementation strategies and engines, even showing code samples. Unexpectedly fascinating.
- anthk 3y agoThanks to the Z-Machine, Frotz and Inform6/Inform7 you can play games like Entangled, Anchorhead, Curses!, Jigsaw, Slouch over bedlamp, I-0, Spiritwrak, All Things Devours, Vicious Cycles, Woman... on any platform, from PC's, Mac, Android machines and even TRS 80's with an improved Z-Machine interpreter: https://intfiction.org/t/m4zvm-a-new-modern-z-machine-for-the-trs-80-model-4/54896 https://intfiction.org/t/m4zvm-a-new-modern-z-machine-for-th... Z Machine games. The mentioned games are all available. Use Frotz to play them under Unix, Winfrotz under Windows, Lectrote under Android. http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html
- BizarroLand 3y agoI played many of the games covered in the series as a kid thanks to kindly senior software pirates on my local BBS and my mom purchasing a copy of both the Lost Treasures of Infocom and the sequel. The only problem was that I was too young to really get the genre, it was difficult, so I only ever beat the easier ones, Zork Zero, Wishbringer, Enchanter, Sorcerer and Spellbreaker. The others completely wailed on me, I could barely get a third of the way through the original Zork without being eaten by a grue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom