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95ntif.exe       Inform and TADS starters' pack for Windows 95 and NT,
                 by Werner Punz. Self-extracting archive.

AB10.exe         Adventure Blaster 1.0, by Eric O'Dell
                 Adventure Blaster is a Win95 front-end to ten games selected
                 as a good introduction to Interactive Fiction for novices.
                 It makes getting started with IF easy by providing an automated
                 installer, a user-friendly interface, and an extensive help
                 system including reviews, hints, solutions, walkthroughs, FAQs,
                 and an excellent introductory tutorial.
                 Windows 95 self-installing program

Beginner.txt     A Beginner's Guide to Interactive Fiction, by Joe W Aultman.

BeginnersIF.pkg  A Beginner's Guide to Interactive Fiction, by Joe W Aultman,
                 converted to the Newton book format by Eric Brown.

ashes.exe        A large interactive fiction starter kit, with 50 games that
                 range in difficulty from beginner to expert, plus the
                 interpreters needed to run them. Self-extracting Win32
                 archive, compiled by Michael Fare for a magazine about games
                 for the blind. 

fifstart.tar.gz  Unix source code,
fifstart.lha     Amiga executable,
fifstart.sit     Macintosh executable and
fifstart.zip     PC executable of Fredrik's Interactive Fiction Starter's Kit,
                 by Fredrik Ramsberg.  The kit consists of the games
                 The Sound of One Hand Clapping (excluded in the Mac version,
                 along with the AdvSys interpreter), The One That Got Away,
                 John's Fire Witch, Theatre, Gumshoe and Nine Points.
                 It also contains interpreters for all of the games (AdvSys,
                 TADS and Z-code), general instructions on how to play IF games,
                 and a solution for Nine Points.

ifstart.lha      Amiga version (by Bill Hoggett),
ifstart.sit      Macintosh version and
ifstart.zip      PC version of Interactive Fiction Starter Kit, by Russ Bryan.
                 Contents: Curses and Unnkulian Unventure I as examples of
                 Inform and TADS games, respectively; interpreters for both
                 types; complete solutions to both games; and an annotated
                 transcript of the first 50 moves through Curses.
                 (Note on unnkulian1.sol in the Macintosh version:
                  this file is displayed as a Word document, but in fact it is
                  plain ASCII text, so just drag it on BBEdit or any other
                  appropriate program.)

ninepts.z5       Nine Points
                 A Demonstration of an Interactive Fiction Game,
                 by Robert Janelle and Brad O'Donnell
                 Release 12 / Serial number 961127
                 You need one of the interpreters in the Starter Kit mentioned
                 above to play this game.
                 [file is linked to games/zcode/ninepts.z5]