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by Denk
Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:18 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: TAB - Windows IF/Text Adventure Maker
Replies: 83
Views: 526678

Re: TAB - Windows IF/Text Adventure Maker


Game author Ron Edwards contacted me and reported he had successfully converted one of his old TRS Basic adventures with the "TAB for Windows" adventure system as a test game to share with some friends. Ron has given permission to share it with others who may be interested.


Nice, keep up the ...
by Denk
Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:26 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: New Adventure: ESCAPE FROM THE DEEP (released)
Replies: 2
Views: 11641

Re: New Adventure: ESCAPE FROM THE DEEP (released)


Hey fellow adventurenaughts. I released a game late last year. First one in a while. It's Browser based (HTML 5). Created with Adventuron (c)2017 Chris Ainsley
It's a mystery/escape adventure with elements of horror. It's not massive, but I hope fun to play.
Check it out here.... https://dethmunk ...
by Denk
Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:26 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: New retro IF game award
Replies: 3
Views: 5360

IFDB Awards: Voting open from now until 15th of February

Just letting you know that you can go and vote now on IFDB for the new IFDB Awards. It is only for interactive fiction = text adventures + CYOAs and there are many categories such at "Oustanding Retro Game" etc.

You can vote and see the polls here: https://ifdb.org/news?item=124

The rules are here ...
by Denk
Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:09 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: New retro IF game award
Replies: 3
Views: 5360

Re: New retro IF game award

I am not 100% sure, but I think the strict deadline was for deciding whether a category should be included or not. If there weren't enough PunyInform games, the poll for that one would not be included. I think that the organizer don't want to bother to check if a game was added before or after 1st ...
by Denk
Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:34 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: New retro IF game award
Replies: 3
Views: 5360

New retro IF game award

I thought this might be interesting to people who care about text adventures for retro machines/games:
https://intfiction.org/t/offical-announcement-the-ifdb-awards-to-begin-on-feb-1-2023/59813/13

If you want a game from 2022 to be eligible by the 1st of February you must put the game on to ifdb ...
by Denk
Wed Oct 19, 2022 12:57 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: RPGs... removal discussion & log
Replies: 13
Views: 32767

Re: RPGs... removal discussion & log

There have been rpg elements in many text adventures since the beginning (The thief in Zork I, Mountains of Ket etc). But I agree that in the general case, CASA is not for rpgs. If the game is a hybrid rpg/text adventure, especially with a parser, I think we should be open to it and trust that the ...
by Denk
Tue Oct 11, 2022 6:18 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus
Replies: 16
Views: 35394

Re: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus


Iirc, the automatically generated z-code output from unQuill is not suitable for playing through Ozmoo, or usable on retro systems because of the way it uses the memory. You're not making proper z-code games that way.


Makes sense. Ideally, someone will make versions suitable for retro platforms ...
by Denk
Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:25 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus
Replies: 16
Views: 35394

Re: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus


Interesting. I had thought about doing something like this myself.

If it was me, I'd skip the menus and jump straight into the game. Without seeing the content of each menu item, I think they could all be incorporated within the game itself. For example, 'About the Adventure' could be in the ...
by Denk
Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:16 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus
Replies: 16
Views: 35394

Re: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus


It wouldn't be appropriate to host them as "fixed games". There's nothing wrong with the originals and that's still the best way to play them to get the proper experience.

Have you seen auraes' zQuill project, by the way? https://gitlab.com/auraes/zquill


As both you and Garry replied, "fixed ...
by Denk
Tue Oct 11, 2022 12:16 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus
Replies: 16
Views: 35394

Z-code versions of Dorothy Millard's games incl. menus

Hi,

Last year I got permission from Dorothy to distribute her games as z-code games, so IF players could play her games without knowledge of emulators.

It is quite easy to convert the quill games with UnQuill by John Elliott. However, it takes bit more time to convert the startup menus manually to ...
by Denk
Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:46 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: ADRIFT platforms
Replies: 35
Views: 83876

Re: ADRIFT platforms


I was updating my Adrift collection and database recently and the thing that really pissed me off was trying to work out which interpreter I needed to run each game. It all boiled down to Adrift 3.8, 3.9, 4.0 or 5.0. It doesn't matter which platform the interpreter runs on, so long as you know ...
by Denk
Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:48 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: ADRIFT platforms
Replies: 35
Views: 83876

Re: ADRIFT platforms

After I started this thread in february 2021, a very good ADRIFT 5 interpreter has arrived called FrankenDrift. It is available on Mac, Linux and Windows and it is highly compatible as it is based on the open source code of ADRIFT 5. In comparison, the Android app Fabularium is less accurate but ...
by Denk
Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:58 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Deja Vu Graham Nelson
Replies: 3
Views: 1791

Re: Deja Vu Graham Nelson

I haven't played that title but others by Graham Nelson. Several of his games are very difficult, much more difficult than most Infocom games I think. I've played Jigsaw and Curses and they are both very difficult. I gave up as I felt I had to resort constantly to the walkthrough very early. But if ...
by Denk
Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:35 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: Colossal Cave entries
Replies: 1
Views: 11722

Colossal Cave entries

Hi,
I have noticed that the database contains entries for individual versions of Colossal Cave a.k.a. Adventure by Crowther and Woods. Most are commercial, but there are also a Basic version (Jim Gerrie), An Alan version, and a Quill version (Paul McGuire).

I think the most important conversions ...
by Denk
Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:46 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: Request for Beta-Testers for ParserComp2021 game: "The Arkham Abomination"
Replies: 5
Views: 16777

Re: Request for Beta-Testers for ParserComp2021 game: "The Arkham Abomination"


Hi,
I submitted my game to the ParserComp2021 competition. (Even though there may be a later revision or expansion of the game)

FYI, I played and rated it. It was good and I was positively surprised about the parser, since you compare TAB to GAC etc. It would be good if it wasn't necessary to ...