Tag: interactive Fiction

Brutal Deluxe Software Releases Apple IIgs Version of Classic Hypertext Game “Tout a disparu”

Relive the excitement of the French Interactive Fiction world from 1992, Now on Your Apple IIgs. The Apple IIgs community has reason to celebrate as Brutal Deluxe Software unveils the official release of “Tout a disparu,” a hypertext interactive fiction game originally penned by François Coulon. This captivating narrative adventure, first introduced by Les logiciels d’en face in 1992 for the Atari ST, has now found a new home on the Apple IIgs platform, courtesy of the dedicated efforts of…

The Queen’s Footsteps Mac 68K Version Updated

If you have not played a Davide Bucci adventure yet, you re really missing something. Created in the old style of Interactive Fiction games, Davide has created a number of adventures including his multi platform title, The Queen’s Footsteps. Synopsis of the game: “ Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back in Genova,…

A Groundhog Day Visit of Eamon

Earlier this month, Matthew Clark posted a long held mystery of Eamon #80 – Search For The Key by Eamon’s creator, Donald Brown.  Apparently, Dr. William Trent had a unique way of winning the game, however, he never disclosed the secret.  In follow up emails with Dr. Trent, he no longer seems to remember what that solution was and thus Matthew Clark has put our a call to the entire Eamon community looking for those who might have a clue…

The Spring Thing Interactive Fiction Contest

For those of you who write adventure games or interactive fiction, there is another contest out there.  The Spring Thing was announced and run by Aaron Reed and the entry deadline is 1 March 2018.  Initially held in 2002, The Spring Thing is intended to be an event which brings interactive fiction writers together. This Main Festival Games need to comply with the following forms: New: your game should be unreleased at the time the festival opens. Finished: the game…

New Eamon Reviews Online Now

Two new Eamon reviews from Thomas Ferguson are now available on the Eamon Adventurers Guild website.  The Reviews of Adventure # 253, The Prisim of Shadows and # 254, Dawn of the Warlock, both of which were written by Wade Clarke and James Anderson give the new offerings high praise and marks. Eamon is an Adventure design system developed by Don Brown in 1979 and has over 255 adventures currently written for the system.   Recently, the system has made its…

Eamon Deluxe 5.0 Beta 3 Coming Soon

Frank Kunze has announce that he will be sending out the 3rd beta of the Eamon Deluxe 5.0 program.   He is attempting to re-work all of the original Eamon to accompany the Eamon Deluxe 5.0 system, fixing directional issues as well as eliminating unneeded items from the programs in order to make them flow better. He has recently re-formatted the SoftDisk Eamon #156, THE CURSE OF TALON by Sam Ruby.  A short writeup about that re-formatting is available on the…

A.P.P.L.E. Web Site of the month

While this month’s web site is not specifically an Apple site, it is an important web resource for users of many platforms. Snackey Pete’s is a nice web site for those interested in the Inform format of Interactive Fiction games. The site, which is produced by Helikon Technologies, is a nice simple web site and has man compilers, interpreters, games, and even documentation for the Inform format. As many of the older users may know, Inform is the format in…