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On the Web
- the TADS Page - Unofficial page about the freeware Text Adventure Development System, a very popular text adventure development system.
- How to play Interactive Fiction and Text Adventure Games on Windows PCs - How to set up a Windows PC to play interactive fiction and text adventure games. Shows how to install HTML TADS and WinFrotz software to play TADS and Inform games.
- Choosing a Text Adventure Language - Some handy tips about picking which language to use when writing a text adventure.
- XYZZYnews: So you want to write a text adventuring authoring system... - Author Alan Conroy discusses how he developed an adventure authoring system named Adventure Builder and the issues involved with writing your own.
- Your Sinclair: The Mapper - Tim Kemp's review: "will appeal to RPG-ers, text purists (even though there isn't a lot of text in it), strategy fans and graphic adventurers alike." [8/10]
- Game Wizard (G-Wiz) - A tool for designing and playing text adventure and role-playing games. G-Wiz games can make use of text, sound, graphics, video, and audio.
- Don Woods - Personal page of this co-author of the original 1976 text adventure, Adventure.
- Yahoo! Groups: agtnum - A list dedicated to the Interactive Fiction (Text Adventure Game) system AGT.
- DouglasAdams.com: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Adventure Game - Play the text adventure on-line using Java on Douglas Adams' website.
- Tolkien Computer Games: The Tolkien Software Adventure Series - Game information, box art, screen shots, and web resources related to Tolkien illustrated text adventures by Beam Software.
Wikipedia Articles
- Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures - Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures is a game based on the Indiana Jones trilogy released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994, developed by Factor 5 and published by JVC Musical Industries, Inc. The story is told through cut-scenes and text and is mostly faithful to the movies.
- Z-machine (interpreter) - The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files, or Z-code files), and could therefore port all its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform.
- Castle of Riddles - Castle of Riddles is a text adventure released by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro (in 1982) and Acorn Electron (1984) home computers. The game was written by Peter Killworth and was one of a series of text adventures written for, or ported to the BBC Micro by the same author (others including Countdown to Doom and Philosopher's Quest).
- Adventure Definition Language - Adventure Definition Language (ADL) is a system for writing text adventures. It was created by Ross Cunniff and Tim Brengle in 1987.
- Adventure Master - Adventure Master was a system for writing text adventures with graphics. It was written by Cristopher Chance and published by CBS Software in 1984.