Note: For information about Infocom and their games see directory 'if-archive/infocom/info,', for Magnetic Scrolls see directory 'if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/info', for beginners' guides see directory 'if-archive/starters'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Index this file Colossal-Cave.TidBITS Colossal Cave Revisited, by Mel Park an article from TidBITS #229, 06jun94, about a re-release of the game on CD and the original cave the game is based on Colossal-Cave.origin a note from Bernie Cosell on the origin of the original ADVENT game The Craft of Adventure, Second Edition, Five Articles on the Design of Adventure Games by Graham Nelson Craft.Of.Adventure.tex the original TeX version Craft.Of.Adventure.A4.ps PostScript version for A4 paper Craft.Of.Adventure.hlp Windows 3.1 Help format Craft.Of.Adventure.letter.ps PostScript version for US letter size paper Craft.Of.Adventure.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF format Craft.Of.Adventure.pkg Newton book format, converted by Eric Brown Craft.Of.Adventure.txt plain text version [all of these files are linked to programming/general-discussion/Craft.Of.Adventure.*] Sherlock.zip Manual for Sherlock (the game released by Melbourne House, not the Infocom game of the same name), in HTML format with JPEG images. Scanned in by Jeremy A. Smith. ZCatalog.chm The Z-Files, a Z-Code Catalog Michael Baum's catalog of Z-Code games and programs converted to a Windows 98 Compiled Help File by Paul de Valmency [file is linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog.chm] ZCatalog990722.zip A catalog of all Z-Code games and programs, in HTML format. Written by Michael Baum, based on previous catalogs by Brendon Wyber, Neil Brown and Gunther Schmidl. Last updated 22 July 1999 ZCatalog990722.zip detailed description of the above [files are linked to games/zcode/ZCatalog990722.*] adv-tree.txt the Adventure family tree, detailing all the known versions of Adventure, as constructed by Russell Dalenberg advent.html a WWW page describing all the versions of Adventure found here at the IF Archive, written by David Kinder adventure-game-list information about adventure games and the companies that made them, collected by Hans Persson. This is a text version of the author's web pages starting at http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/, created 06feb1999. adventure-game-systems a list of adventure authoring systems, both commercial, free, and for in-house development, by Hans Persson. Last update: 10may94. author-list.txt a list of authors if IF games, together with email addresses (where known and permitted), revision 1.0 (01mar98), by John Francis authoring-systems.FAQ information about development systems for Interactive Fiction, by Nathan Torkington. Last update: 23nov94. [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/authoring-systems.FAQ] authorship-guide.base Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship base document version 2.0 by Gerry Kevin Wilson [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.base] authorship-guide.sup1 Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship supplement #1 (25may95) to version 2.0 by Gerry Kevin Wilson [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.sup1] authorship-guide.sup2 Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship supplement #2 (25jun95) to version 2.0 by Gerry Kevin Wilson [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/authorship-guide.sup2] classic-game-programmers.list The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers, by James Hague; last updated 15 May 2001. dumb_reviews.txt Two collections of game reviews, written dumb_reviews2.txt by "Quentin D. Thompson" feedback-guide.txt Jacob's Guide to Giving Constructive Feedback on IF by Jacob Solomon Weinstein [file is linked to rec.arts.int-fiction/feedback-guide.txt] ftpstats94.txt ftp download counts for all the files in this ftpstats95.txt archive, one year per file, sorted by ftpstats96.txt path/filename; prepared by Werner Icking ftpstats97.txt ftpstats98.txt ftpstats99.txt ftpstats00.txt guidadv1.txt Adventurist's Guide Through Textual Adventures, Part I (for novices), by Vladimir Krstulja hound-manual.zip Manual for The Hound Of Shadow, by Eldritch Games, scanned into HTML format by Frederic Bassaler if-bibliography.txt Interactive Fiction Bibliography (4/97) compiled by Stephen Granade if-page.zip Paul Gilbert's IF WWW page. inform-gamelist.txt A Non-Interactive List of Inform Games, by Neil James Brown. Based on a previous list by Brendon Wyber. Release 5 / 971015 [file is linked to games/zcode/inform-gamelist.txt] mud-info the beginning of a compilation of information concerning multi-user adventure games, by Hans Persson. Last update: 17apr94. playgame.FAQ Playing the Interactive Fiction Archive Games version 1.7 (November 2000), by Stephen Griffiths [file is linked to games/playgame.FAQ] rec.arts.int-fiction.FAQ The Frequently Asked Questions of the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, plain text version, maintained by Stephen Griffiths. [file is linked to rec.arts.int-fiction/FAQ] rec.arts.int-fiction.FAQ.htm The Frequently Asked Questions of the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, HTML version, maintained by Stephen Griffiths. [file is linked to rec.arts.int-fiction/FAQ.htm] rec.games.int-fiction.FAQ The Frequently Asked Questions of newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction, by Stephen van Egmond Last update: 31jan97. [file is linked to rec.games.int-fiction/FAQ] tads-gamelist1.txt The Complete, Unofficial List of TADS Games v3.00 (jan93), by Alan Mead [file is linked to games/tads/tads-gamelist1.txt] tads-gamelist2.txt The (Other) TADS Game List, version 1.2 (20aug96), by Gerry Kevin Wilson and Paul David Doherty [file is linked to games/tads/tads-gamelist2.txt] tolkien-games.list a list of computer games related to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Fredrik Ekman (ver 1.8, nov95). This list is no longer maintained; it has been replaced by a set of WWW pages you can find at http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/ whichsys.zip the "Which Authoring System Is Better" FAQ, revision 0.1, 20feb96, initial publication, a detailed discussion and comparison of 10 IF authoring systems (TADS, Inform, ALAN, Hugo, AGT, Archetype, GINAS, LADS, Gamescape, and Aventuro) by Bob Newell. This file contains the document in four formats: PostScript, TeX, DVI, and plain ASCII text. [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/whichsys.zip] whichsys-alan-update.txt an update to the ALAN information in whichsys.zip [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/whichsys-alan-update.txt] whichsys-tads-update.txt an update to the TADS information in whichsys.zip, by Neil K. Guy, 15oct98 [file is linked to programming/general-discussion/whichsys-tads-update.txt]