HighretrogamelordCutthroats (Coin/Mary Margaret/The São Vera longplay) for the TI-99/4A
https://youtu.be/MbvLrp3O_0Q?si=r5vHVZR0pqhL38Cn
#Cutthroats #TI994A #Adventure #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #MaryMargaret #TheSãoVera #SãoVera #Longplay #Infocom
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Torbjörn AnderssonI don't know if it was deliberate or just a happy accident, but I think it's pretty cool that in Zork II, assuming you didn't lose any treasures along the way, the point where you finally get the Wizard's wand is the point where your rank changes from Master to Wizard.
(Edit: I realized later that I could have scored 15 points more before getting the wand. No problem, because 350 points is still a Master, not a Wizard.)
Ingo PaschkeHere's my GEM ZCode-Interpreter for anyone who's interested.
V3-V8, text only, Quetzal saves, input history, notepad feature. Needs about 450KB + size of the game. Plays nice with MagiC and MiNT.
Deka BlackSome year ago i was able toplay Enchanter. And i remember clearly two moments.First, when you ecunter a very particular character (no spoilers)...and whe you use the NITFOL spell to understand animals at the frog pond.
Those lines are pure gold.
#Enchanter #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #Infocom #RetroGames #RetroGaming
The second installment in "Update all the orphaned ports!": Frotz for the Amiga.
This great Amiga port from 2007 now uses the newest Z-Code engine from Frotz 2.5.5 (2025).
Should be available soon on aminet.
#Amiga #interactivefiction #textadventure #retroComputing #infocom
vga256a long, long time ago one of the only places you could find MS-DOS abandonware was on Home of the Underdogs. every week I would crawl through its RPG and Adventure sections looking for the next underrated gem I had never heard of. among their “Top Dogs” were two infocom games: Circuit’s Edge and Mines of Titan.
although infocom became synonymous with text adventures/interactive fiction, it was also a publisher of graphical RPGs designed by westwood associates. these were fascinating games - a blend of dungeon crawling, text adventure, and NPC dialogues.
Circuit’s Edge is unique insofar as it is set in a futuristic middle east. the world is based on George Alec Effinger’s When Gravity Fails series, a cyberpunk setting with cybernetic implants, islam, and money. Effinger himself wrote all of the ingame text.
decades later I was finally able to buy physical copies. i always liked the cover art for circuit’s edge, and that they used artist Jean-Francois Podevin’s pre-vis sketch for the manual cover.
Julien Falgas 🪡Pour les enseignants, la lecture de "Histoire de l'information" est à prolonger par "Le Numérique-monde" de Pascal Robert.
Une fois les bases historiques acquises grâce au travail colossal de vulgarisation de Chris Haughton, l'analyse historique et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle devient limpide.
Le numérique-monde. Histoire et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle du télégraphe à l’IA - FYP éditions
Pascal Robert Et si le numérique n’était pas aussi immatériel qu’on le croit ?Derrière chaque clic, chaque connexion, se cache une infrastructure gigantesque et méconnue : des centaines de câbles sous-marins, des milliers de centres de données, une myriade de satellites et des milliards de smartphones et d’ordinateurs interconnectés. Cette « méga-machine », fruit
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽
Today's "I never saw Zork II do that before" bug is...
The JIGS-UP routine doesn't kill the player, it kills the current actor. That's a feature. But when a timer routine is run, it doesn't change the current actor back to the player.
So simply by talking to the robot, I can save myself from death by timed event.
I had hoped to use this on the Wizard, but apparently his action routine terminates too early. That too may be a bug, but one that cancels the first one.
