NeilT

if so, can you recommend one for a bit of nostalgic gaming?

Just started reading the Warlock of Firetop Mountain to my 2 boys, and getting quite into it, so reckon a bit of text based pc adventuring might be next

mart360

Zork

return to zork


Mart

Hanslow

Keep your eye out for 'The Lost Treasures of Infocom'. Over 30 classic text adventure games There's a copy sat on my shelf at the moment, but you ain't having it

Actually mine is the 'Masterpieces of Infocom' which is a combination of the two Lost Treasures collections

judgejules

online:

NANVAENT

Been around for 10+ years, always being worked on.

telnet://nanvaent.org:23/

You might need a better telenet client though.

Here's the web java telenet client link http://www.nanvaent.org/telnet2.shtml

Enjoy

Jules

Scooby-Doo

Hobbit

Except for the stupid command on the way back

Butty

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http://c64s.com/game/418/hobbit,_the/

nick

MJW

Look up some of the old Level 9 classics like Snowball, Return to Eden, etc.

RoShamBo

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Ahh this takes me back to happy days....Colossal Adventure, Lords of Time (my fave - jump in the grandfather clock & go back/forwards in time)

Would happily play them all over again.

R.

Sticky Stuff

Or the Infocom ones. HHGTTG

James Neill

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If you're in to P2P then try one of these links. Every Infocom game going

magnetxt=urn:bitprint:XBCXUE7ICII4DPI62JABNZ2NKW OY3FDY.GUIL2GVWZXYTBHWCHX4B6TB5IJ4I223PXIDE22I&dn= Infocom%20Package%20-%20Complete%20with%20manuals%20(Classic%20Interact ive%20Fiction%20-%20Text%20Adventures)%20231%2C895%2C268%20bytes.zi p

or

ed2k://|file|Infocom%20Package%20-%20Complete%20with%20manuals%20(Classic%20Interact ive%20Fiction%20-%20Text%20Adventures)%20231%2C895%2C268%20bytes.zi p|231895268|667d5149f98b5a334c325cb508d6f4c2|/

Phil Harrison

Ahhhh! Infocom - those were the days!! However, they're a bit of a pain to set up for modern XP Machines.... and with FDDs going out of the door, they become more difficult still.

Anyone know of a good "vintage Games" community which deals with such matters. I'd [i]love[\i] to try to shoot down the starglider again!

Cheers,

Phil
"you are standing in front of a white house......."

spectrum48k

I was playing the original Alone In The Dark the other day, in MS-DOS v6.22!

Not a text only adventure, but a pioneering adventure game anyway.

Hanslow

Phil, mine are all on one legitimate CD and from what I can remember, they weren't much hassle to setup under XP (although my memory is fuzzy these days ).

James Neill

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Do a search for "Frotz" - which run under Windows and plays the old Infocom games.

spectrum48k

Planet of Death, Ship Of Doom & Velnor's Lair anyone ?




Lords Of Time ? Snowball ? Return to Eden ?



Recently completed The Hobbit after originally doing it back in 1983!

JackClark

Jacaranda Jim and Humbug

Hanslow

Planet of Death rocks Haven't played that for years....better break out my old speccy emulator

spectrum48k

Anyone remember the female robot you could do naughty things to in Ship Of Doom ?

Phil Harrison

Well over 100,000 responses from Google for Frotz. This looks like a brilliant place to start
www.d.kinder.btinternet.co.uk/

Looking into it now...

Phil

spectrum48k

My first multiplayer text adventure was called AMP on the PSS (packet switch stream network) back in '83 using my Prism VTX5000 modem (1200/75 baud) on my trusty spectrum.

GaryK

any scott adams ones still around? used to love playing those on my Vic20.

James Neill

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Found a torrent with all the Infocom games and manuals. Superb

http://www.mininova.org/tor/343812

boxst

Hello

You can play the infocom ones here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/

Steve

Phil Harrison

Links from your link don't work for me Steve - just put up a non-functioning page! I was intrigued by "Zork, the great undiscovered Underground Empire", which I don't recall as being a subtitle for any of the 5 "Zork"-entitled games of which I'm aware.

My "Frotz" link (above) worked perfectly and I have a ful set mounted on my Laptop.....

Cheers

Phil
"...You have been eaten by a grue...."

jpor

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Used to program those sort games on the VIC-20 from 'Popular Computer Weekly' Magazines. Anyone remember them?