The Retro Timer 💾Happy towel day! 👍
HighretrogamelordEnchanter for the TI-99/4A
Rev. Pickem BoogerlyLLM addiction reminds me of my severe habit of #infocom games in the 1980s. Bureaucracy had the best inserts.
Aurélien Béranger // Low-thèse« L'écoconception numérique c'est comme un chirurgien qui a la super nouvelle idée de se laver les mains avant d'opérer : ça ne devrait pas être d'une grande originalité mais l'hygiène de base de nos pratiques professionnelles » @arnaudlevy lors d'une passionnante table-ronde à la Journée d'étude du projet de recherche Ecoweb à Rennes.
Un projet de recherche coordonné par @vincent_ca et Bénédicte Toullec.
#ecoconception #sobrietenumerique #numeriqueresponsable #sobriete #esr #infocom
Rod Van MeterQuNAP group at the end of the day. A few people are missing, but this is a good chunk of attendees.
#IEEE #INFOCOM #INFOCOM2026
root42Great episode of The Retro Adventurers with @zarfeblong about Infidel (and the Smirking Horror):
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-retro-adventurers/id1739948119?i=1000767499433
And after a long hiatus: another stint with #thelurkinghorror!
So we go back to the lab and get into the pentagram. However, once the professor is in his pentagram, we cut the line on ours and step outside.
#infocom #interactivefiction
So we go back to the lab and get into the pentagram. However, once the professor is in his pentagram, we cut the line on ours and step outside.
#infocom #interactivefiction
martin@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.
#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork
Andrew PlotkinTime to figure out those ZIL grammar flags that Steve Meretzky said were confusing! (Back in 1989.)
Here is the list so far, for those interested: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=zifwosg0&dl=0
Currently the post-2000 entries are just a few I didn't want to forget. I'm planning to add a bunch more - including the cream of Wadjet Eye's output.
