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From: jlauten@netcom.com (Jennifer Lautenschlager)
Subject: Re: FAQ?
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Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 15:03:20 GMT
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I'm not sure if there's a FAQ per se, but there are certainly some game
sources for the non-PC/non-Mac folks out there. I play games on my
Sparc sometimes (don't tell the boss :->), so I know there's games that'll
run under Unix out there. There's also C source for some games, which
you can port to other systems if you're ambitious, I suppose.

The main ftp site for interactive fiction is found at ftp.gmd.de. Mostly
I play games on the Tads interpreter; the interpreter's at
/if-archive/programming/tads, available for many different systems.
There are game files in /if-archive/games/tads and also some in
/if-archive/games/adventions/others. There's also some games that can
be run on an Infocom-compatible interpreter, such as Zip. I haven't
looked into these, but the games are at /if-archive/games/infocom,
and the interpreter is somewhere near /if-archive/infocom/interpreters.
A lot of these games are freeware, and the rest are shareware.

There's also an interactive fiction Web page that's pretty good, at
"http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~s9406702/if/". It has links to all these
games, interpreters, PC games, Mac games, hint files, and so on,
from off the ftp.gmd.de site (I'm assuming, at least).

-Jennifer
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was the suspect."
                                     -Steven Wright
