Text Adventures

or as some people prefer to call them, Interactive Fiction

Here you'll mainly find solutions, hints en maps of text adventures, and almost-text adventures, for several systems. These are:

• The old Phoenix mainframe, at Cambridge University, and their Topologika and Acornsoft ports
• The Sinclair ZX Spectrum
• One MS-DOS monstrosity, Getfeldt's Treasure
• For The Hermit's Secret, also old and for MS-DOS, but not quite as bad: a walkthrough and a set of maps.
• and two maps for Nick Montfort's ZCode-game Book and Volume:
  • a "Feelie" map, which doesn't give away anything which isn't in open view; this one could be a welcoming gift to a hypothetical tourist to nTopia
  • a "Spoiler" map, which shows all objects and hidden locations

These solutions can be found at jacob Gunness' Classic Adventures Solution Archive as well. I have also contributed some more trivial solutions there, which you won't find here.

And some attemts by myself to write interactive fiction, not always quite successful:

• My entry into DinoComp
• Ditto for DragonComp
• A parody; anyone who doesn't understand what of should count himself lucky
• A ZMachine abuse inspired by a certain book, with a secret. And no, I am not going to explain more about that. Those who can find it by themselves knows how to use it; those who don't have no use for it.
• Cloak of Darkness, Roger Firth's program for comparing IF authoring systems, translated to TSAL (the ancient language in which the Phoenix games were written), and several languages (among which Basic and the Quill) for the ZX Spectrum

All these programs need a ZCode interpreter to run. My personal preference is WinFrotz 2.32, rather old by now but still fuctional and efficient, but other 'terps will do as well. They are best found at the IF Archive.

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