Hi, You go to "walkthrough here to enter the ifarchive". After that, there's a directory tree you have to navigate; it depends on what you want--the site is quite large and all I can say is you'll have to experiment. What are you looking for, I may be able to find it quickly for you? Best Regards, Hayden
-----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of mike maslo Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 8:15 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? When I go to the archive where do I go to find the games? I see a bunch of stuff but not sure of where to go to download these games. Thanks in advance. -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Hayden Presley Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:05 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? Hi Mike, Most games, such as those found on the interactive fiction archive, are free to play. However, some of (or all of) the companies I've ever heard of that make these games end up charing a fee to play them, or in the Infocom/Level9 days, buying them on floppy disc. Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of mike maslo Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:02 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? Dark: Thanks a lot for the links and will check them all out. Are all interactive fictions cost money or are there free stuff out there? -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 3:22 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? Hmmm, I can't recall azteca specifically, but remember how well you c an interact with game elements depends very much on how much of a brain the creator had. I spent ages trying to get through the fireplace in the pentory prequal, --- north, (sinse it was in the north wall), enter fire place "you can't enter that" when it turned out I had to type in, ---- for the love of pete! I don't remember any such issue with azteca, but I will confess this business with the prequal, ---- and the fact that I can make no headway whatsoever with the demo of the first game rather put me off malinch's stuff. As with regular fiction though, this just depends upon who wrote the game, and there is a lot more interactive fiction available than just malinches' stuff, ---- check those links I sent in the previous message for starters, then have a look at http://www.wurb.com/if/ and search for something with good reviews that looks interesting. personally, I'd recommend stuff by emily short, paul obrian and aAndrew plotkin, ---- but again this depends upon my personal preference for weerd exploritory fantasy stuff. Beware the Grue! Dark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike maslo" <mmaslo1...@swbell.net> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? > Dark: > > Well I am trying to figure out azteca and I got to embarrassing point of > the > jaguar room but can't figure out how to open the wall by the jaguar. > > I see it is very similar to muds and sometimes the concepts on how it > works. > > I will ask questions as I run across them but it looks great so far. > > -----Original Message----- > From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On > Behalf Of dark > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 11:42 AM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? > > Hi mike. > > No problem with traffic about if on this list, --- ask away. > > If you are a newby though, you could do much worse than checking out > http://www.microheaven.com/IFGuide/step2.html which have a great > beginners' > guide. > > I'd also recommend you try the game dreamhold by andrew plotkin found at > http://ifarchive.heanet.ie/if-archive/games/zcode/dreamhold.z8 > > you can run this with windows frotz, winfrotz (including the winfrotz tts > version which outputs directly to sapi), or anything which plays z code > game > > files. > > It's a really great story and adventure, but whats' more is it's probably > the best introduction to If I've seen. there are various ones knocking > about, but for a hands on in game intro going through how to give > commands, > and what puzles are, dreamhold is deffinately my favourite (not the least > because it's an incredibly interesting game and story in it's own right). > > hth. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mike maslo" <mmaslo1...@swbell.net> > To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:46 PM > Subject: [Audyssey] Any interactive fiction fans out there? > > >> Hi List: >> >> Are there any interactive fiction fans out there? 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