Jigsaw - An Interactive History

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/jigsaw-interactive-history

New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not

#macgarden #interactivefiction #1996 #text #grahamnelson #zmachine

Curses

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/curses

Curses is a seemingly simple quest to find a street map of Paris leads you into odd corners of an old mansion, your imagination, and ultimately into the ancient past.

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Inform 7
Still December, still in low-impact posting mode. I figured I'd tell you all about interactive fiction authoring system Inform 7, which still feels new in my mind despite coming out 17 years ago.

I say "Inform 7" to distinguish it from previous versions, which were a very different system. Inform 6 was a cryptic C-style programming language; Inform 7 s
https://setsideb.com/inform-7/
#niche #alexproudfoot #cobol #githib #grahamnelson #inform #inform7 #interactivefiction #niche