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TL/DR: Play Galactic Hitchhiker online Drawn by Twitter user @NoxHorror, the picture above has nothing to do with the subject of this blogpost Fit the First I’ve always said that if this blog had a slogan it would probably be something like “Retroactive Fiction: Very tentatively...
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TL/DR: See my Github repo. What is BeebScott? It’s an umbrella term for (1) an interpreter program that runs on the 8-bit BBC Micro computer and lets you play Scott Adams text adventure games on said Beeb; and (2) a Perl script that converts TRS-80 Scott Adams v8.x .DAT files (or ScottKit...
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I have no business writing about IFComp. A huge number of incredibly impressive games have been entered into the competition over the years, but I’ve only ever played a tiny fraction of them, so I just don’t feel qualified to expound on the subject, which is why I haven’t. Instead, I’ve stuck to...
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I’ll admit it: I don’t know very much about MUDs. (Nor am I familiar with the various spinoffs — the MUCKs, MOOs and MUSHes — that proliferated in the early days of the Net.) Many years ago, I would occasionally peek over the shoulder of someone who was engaged in playing one of those new-fangled...
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One Room is a text adventure game written by Jorge Mir for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was published as a program-listing in the first Rainbow Book of Adventures in 1983. One Room is set in a single room (duh), in which the player-character is trapped. The object of the game is to escape from...
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Maze of Madness is a modern game for an ancient computer (namely the 8-bit BBC Micro, which this blog seems to endlessly bang on about). Well, I say “game”, but it’s more of a demo – a demo of a rather cruel puzzle. But it is actually solvable, if you spot the trick. Mathbrush, the Official...
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Xanadu Adventure is a text adventure game that was written for the BBC Micro by Paul Shave in 1982. Typically for the time, Shave was strongly influenced by Crowther and Woods’s Colossal Cave, and Xanadu therefore featured the requisite stream, grating, and forest-maze… But there was little chance...
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Previously I wrote about The Discovery, which is the first of two works of interactive fiction (known together as Galaxy’s Edge) that were written for the 8-bit BBC Micro in 1984 by Graham Nelson. The Discovery is, more or less, a conventional single-player text adventure game. But the second...
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[UPDATE: You can now play Galaxy’s Edge online.] Galaxy’s Edge is a two-part text adventure game created in 1984 for the 8-bit BBC Micro computer by Graham Nelson. I believe it was this Graham Nelson, the creator of the interactive-fiction programming language Inform – at least, people seem to...
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[Play Arendarvon Castle online] [backup] In previous posts, I wrote about Wander (1974), the interactive fiction creation tool for mainframe Unix systems. But my speciality (I use the word laughably) is text adventure games for the BBC Micro, the legendary 8-bit microcomputer that helped kickstart...
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A video playthrough of the classic 1980s educational mathematics game L — A Mathemagical Adventure by the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics, for the 8-bit BBC Micro computer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMeuxsvk3k&list=PLy5HwFxc67UFERGEqbKU-Ky74QwEtuLsm Loading screen of the game...