Learning ZIL: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Writing Interactive Fiction But Couldn't Find Anyone Still Working Here to Ask, by Steven Eric Meretzky, Infocom, Inc. Written in 1989, later converted to Microsoft Word in August of 1995. Derived from a 2002 printout and converted to PDF. Table of Contents 1. The Basics 1.1 The Basic Ingredients 1.2 The Handler 1.3 The Parser's Role 1.4 The Basic Handling Sequence 2. Creating Rooms 2.1 What a Typical Room Definition Looks...
Topics: Interactive Fiction, Z-Machine, Zil, Infocom, Meretzky
A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, Inc. of Cambridge, MA. Assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom. In 2006, documentary filmmaker Jason Scott began production on GET LAMP, a video documentary about the realm of text adventures and interactive fiction. Shooting and research time was roughly 4 years, during which Jason interacted with a large variety of members of the various communities and companies that made up the story of...
Topics: Infocom, Meretzky, Text Adventures, Scans, Maps, Game Design
MOCAGH.ORG: Questbusters: qbusterspremiere
Topics: adventure, infocom, game, cutthroats, daneel, ultima, sequel, meretzky, fastolfe, ford, ford prefect
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: starcross zugmap
Topics: zork, aft, starboard, connection, yellow, fore, region, port, outer, meretzky
Topics: game, adventure, infocom, daneel, sequel, zork, meretzky, cutthroats, ultima, fastolfe, ford prefect
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: statusline summer86
Topics: infocom, goddesses, leather, zork, phobos, moonmist, interactive, meretzky, puzzle, contest,...
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Status Line, The - Vol. V No. 3 (1986-09)(Infocom)(US)
Topics: infocom, goddesses, zork, leather, phobos, moonmist, meretzky, interactive, puzzle, invisiclues,...
Infocom Cabinet: Misc: Phone Lists A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, Inc. of Cambridge, MA. Assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously gathered thousands of pages of notes, journals, maps, memos, forms and other printable materials related to all aspects of Infocom, and kept them in his basement for decades. During the GET LAMP production, Jason Scott scanned in roughly...
Topics: room, anderson, linda, dave, brian, bryant, meretzky, lebling, ellen, mike, computer room, steve...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: nzt fall84
Topics: zork, infocom, testers, bug, puzzle, guide, editor, suspect, bugs, meretzky, zork times, puzzle...
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Status Line, The - Vol. VI No. 1 (1987-03)(Infocom)(US)
Topics: infocom, zork, status, puzzle, goddesses, invisiclues, wishbringer, hellhound, enchanter, leather...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: lgop2 manual
Topics: goddesses, game, leather, sound, infocom, lifesize, ofphobos, type, disk, dos, leather goddesses,...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: infocom passport
Topics: infocom, interactive, zork, magazine, classic, games, computing, troll, invisiclues, enchanter,...
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Status Line, The - Vol. V No. 4 (1986-12)(Infocom)(US)
Topics: infocom, enchanter, interactive, zork, status, goddesses, lebling, hollywood, hijinx, underground,...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: statusline summer87
Topics: coq, infocom, zork, coo, lurking, portal, planetfall, interactive, status, commodore, lurking...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: statusline winterspring87
Topics: infocom, zork, status, puzzle, goddesses, wishbringer, hellhound, invisiclues, enchanter, iii,...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: planetfall solidgold manual
Topics: planetfall, interactive, fussbudget, fiction, manual, instruction, return, type, meretzky, docking,...
MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: statusline fall87
Topics: ces, infocom, goddesses, zork, plundered, nord, games, puzzle, cpof, interactive, leather...
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MOCAGH.ORG: Infocom: statusline fall86
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Transcripts of six interviews conducted by the radio show "The Famous Computer Cafe" circa 1985. The transcripts are all dated Nov. 4 1985 -- I believe that is the date they were transcribed, not the date of the interview. The interviews could have been done as early as 1983, when The Famous Computer Cafe began. Transcripts are of: Timothy Leary, Donny Osmond, Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky (Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game), Frank Herbert (author of the Dune...
Topics: Timothy Leary, Donny Osmond, Douglas Adams, Steve Meretzky, Infocom, Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
To listen to this episode, fill out form GRU3 using a #2 pencil and send it by postal mail no later than 8AM yesterday. Be sure to submit all forms in triplicate, in person, and in ink. Links: Bureaucracy box and browsies Bureaucracy at The Digital Antiquarian Bugs list for Bureaucracy Infocom Bureaucracy review: ST Log Magazine, July 1988 Winter/Spring 87 The Status Line LevelUP: an 8-bit Novel by Micah Joel Infocom/Dan Fogelberg mashup on Papergreat Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of...
Topics: Infocom, text adventure, interactive fiction, podcast, Douglas Adams, Steve Meretzky
Stick out your digital thumb and catch a ride with Kay, Carrington, and special guest Charles Mangin as they try to answer the great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything without using InvisiClues. Links: Zork II hand drawn map Hitchhiker's Guide Infocom box and feelies Hitchhiker’s Guide announced in Fall 1984 New Zork Times newsletter Digital Antiquarian on Hitchhiker’s Hitchhiker’s Guide bugs list The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at Wikipedia The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
Topics: Infocom, text adventure, interactive fiction, podcast, Douglas Adams, Steve Meretzky
What do you get when you combine a plucky little robot, an abandoned space station, and Cousin Oliver? To find out, complete form JZ-59-G then listen in as Kay and Carrington discuss Stationfall, Infocom's comedy horror space adventure mystery. Links: Kay's twitter thread about Robot Use Authorization Form barcodes Zork source code, 1977 Stationfall at The Infocom Gallery Infocom Stationfall box and feelies Infocom Stationfall map Stationfall at The Digital Antiquarian Unwinnable State:...
Topics: Infocom, text adventure, interactive fiction, podcast, Steve Meretzky, Planetfall, Floyd the robot
Kevin Savetz interviewed Steve Meretzky at GitHub headquarters at an event titled "Game On—what was it like to make games during the 80's?" on April 26, 2019. Steve Meretzky began his game career as a tester, at the legendary adventure game company Infocom, in 1981. A year later, he began designing games, and has been doing so continuously for more than a third of a century. Kevin Savetz is co-host of Antic: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast , where he has done more than 350 oral history...
Topics: Steve Meretzky, Infocom, text adventures, interactive fiction, ZIL, Planetfall, Sorcerer,...
In This Episode: Traveling with cell phones. Can politicians (legally) block people from their social media feeds? Linux coming to Windows?! And fake meat: how good is it, really? This Week's Hosts Randy Cassingham, founder of This is True. Leo Notenboom, "Chief Question Answerer," at tech education site Ask Leo! Gary Rosenzweig host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. Kay Savetz, web site publisher and Computer Historian at Atari Podcast. Longer Bios...
Topics: American TV, Atari, Banning, Bash, Be More Chill, Beyond, Brexit, Burger King, Case law, CSI,...
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Interactive Entertainment (IE) was an interactive multimedia CD-ROM magazine published by Interactive Publishing, Inc. covering DOS, Windows, and console games. The magazine software was designed to run on Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Unlike competing printed publications which offered CD cover disks as a supplement containing demos and utilities, each IE disc was a fully self-contained magazine offering all editorial content in the form of video, audio, and text, as well as...
Topics: IE, CD MAG, CD ROM, Interactive Entertainment, CD magazine, software, computer games, reviews,...
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"A Story Wrapped Inside a Puzzle Wrapped Inside an Enigma: Designing Adventure Games" Steve Meretzky, CGDC 1996
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Recording of "Steve Meretzky and Michael Bywater, In Conversation": an event held in London in March 2005. Ad for the event: In honour of the BAFTA award nomination for the BBC's new Internet edition of the classic Infocom computer game, "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", we present two titans of the text adventure: * STEVE MERETZKY AND MICHAEL BYWATER, IN CONVERSATION * * (on interactive fiction, Douglas Adams and other lost worlds) * As well as working with Douglas...
Topics: computer games, interactive fiction, text adventures, Steve Meretzky, Michael Bywater, Douglas...
