
Micro Aventuras de Texto, by Carlos Games.
A series of little #textadventures in #BASIC; every saturday a new chapter. These series start with two stories: La Luz en el Bosque y La Casa Abandonada.
Download:
https://carlosgames.itch.io/micro-aventuras-de-texto-captulo-0-piloto
1986: #crashmagazine travels to Ireland to tell the curious story of St. Bride's School and their text adventures
My new article is a companion piece to my recent article about interactive fiction, and looks at the changes in interactive fiction criticism over the last 30 years.
https://www.vintrospektiv.de/index.php/2026/03/quo-vadis-interactive-fiction-criticism/ #interactivefiction #vintrospektiv #textadventures
Brand new Spectrum game: Umbra, by Darkside29.
Download:
https://darkside29.itch.io/umbra
Brand new Spectrum game: Proyecto Starwash, by Ricardo Villalba.
Download:
https://rvmgames.itch.io/starwash
Today’s nostalgia is brought to you by the Magnetic Scrolls Collection in an age of custom single-application window managers on MS-DOS.
What a calm, civilised look that was! Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. Of course the low resolution made it tricky to arrange all the windows.
Not a fan of how a number of common verbs/commands were made available via menus; that could easily lead to the false impression that those were all that were needed.
(Faintly interestingly, the Amiga version looked exactly the same instead of using Intuition)