Play IF in Campfire

Ruby is an excellent language for writing small scripts to glue stuff together. Here’s a script I knocked together that lets you play a zcode text adventure (interactive fiction) with your friends in Campfire. You’ll need a room, account, etc. in Campfire; you’ll need to compile this version of dumb-frotz; and you’ll need a zcode [...]

Recent infocom obsession

I’ve recently been finding and buying up old Infocom interactive fiction games or text adventures. Amazingly, there are still brand-new, unopened copies of these games out there, despite at least 20 years having whizzed past since they were released. Two delights in opening these boxes: the first being the feelies – little trinkets and props [...]