Well Tyler.
Actually the infocom games are still available in Zcode at various places.
it's been one of these occasions where activision, who took over from
infocom officially still own the copywrite, but haven't actually released
anything to do with the games for over 20 years unless you count the
abbortive legends of zork browser mmorpg in 2009 and that was truly
horrible, , so because they are so easily playable with a zcode interpreter
various if inthusiasts have hosted them with a "we'll take them down if
Activision ever ask" notice, though in practice this has never actually
happened.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler" <programmer...@comcast.net>
To: <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Old accessible computer games.
I remember the game Adventure (also known as Advent or Colossal Cave
Adventure). It
was the first adventure game, and the first interactive fiction. It has
been redone for Z-code and web
browser. Also, Infocom games were interactive fiction, including Zork.
They were originally written
for Z-code back when only Infocom could write for Z-code; of course, in
the late 80s and
early 90s IF programmers reverse engineered the Z-code program so that
people could program for it
once again. But the old Infocom games are available on Amazon, I believe.
I think there are
free versions on ifarchive.org.
Tyler Z
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 01:37:38 +0000, Lindsay Cowell wrote:
What old accessible computer games do people remember? Where are they
available
from? What do you need to play them nowadays?
Lindsay Cowell
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