I thought I knew Infocom’s Activision era history well enough, but I had not been previously aware of Mini-Zork! I enjoyed hearing your remembrances and experiences with both Zork variants.
And from your interactive fiction peanut gallery, I found ASCII Cars and Speed Racer at IFDB. For musings on how they can work, here’s a thread on an abandoned text adventure about auto racing called “The Debt.” So as Jason said, they certainly exist! forum.choiceofgames.com/t/text-based...
Thanks, @jasoncompton.bsky.social, for recommending the 2017 Floppy Days interview with Stewart Cheifet. It is wonderful and I recommend it to all TWIRlers! floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-...
Utterly delightful episode. Retro podcast heaven! Thank you! In terms of IF merch, @aaronareed.bsky.social has some great offerings. www.redbubble.com/people/aaron...
An eye-opening and horizon-expanding episode. It made me realize how little I know about IF so it motivated me to dip my toes a bit more into the IFDB pool. Mathbrush’s reviews on the site provide a good entry point for a panoramic view of the IF scene, and I’ll try some of his recommendations.
I also have an iPad Air 2 but it had been updated to 64-bit iOS and sadly there is no way back to 32-bit with that device after updating it.
And maybe my iPad sluggishness is due to throttling, akin to your battery issue. It’ll be interesting to see how long a charge lasts on mine nowadays.
Yes, I love how the boxed elements and the Invisiclues are integrated into the game! My 4th generation iPad seems sluggish compared to the modern iPads but I’m not complaining!
Very happy to have the 32-bit iOS version of Lost Treasures of Infocom back up and running after reviving my 4th generation iPad earlier today. Such a fantastic implementation of this compilation. @retroadventurers.bsky.social @jasoncompton.bsky.social @tuftymctavish.com
Disk version. I am in the US so I was unaware of the tape version until you mentioned it on the program. Very interesting!
You were an awesome guest and it was a fascinating and fun discussion!
I bought the C64 Robots of Dawn while in high school. My simpleminded reactions: I didn’t think that Lije was a plausible nickname for Elijah ‘cause it didn’t sound cool enough for the future. A friend and I also privately used the title of R. instead of Mr. for a teacher with a robotic personality!
@retroadventurers.bsky.social While listening to your interview with Andrew Plotkin, I found this insert in my copy of The Book of Adventure Games II, which I recently obtained on eBay. (Btw, I just joined BlueSky in order to follow your account here!)
