Index of Directories

IF art shows and artistic endeavors

These are exhibits from Marnie Parker's (aka Doe aka FemaleDeer) IF Art Show contests.

The Mystery House Taken Over project

Articles about IF

Books about IF

Collections of IF material

Legacy tools for unzipping, unarchiving, and decoding compressed binaries

Programs for emulating old computer systems

Many thousands of IF games!

Games playable in an AAS interpreter

Games playable in an ADRIFT interpreter

Material relating to Adventions, an IF company active in the early 1990s

Games playable in an AdvSys interpreter

Games playable with the Aetheria Game Engine Players' Kit

Games playable in an AGT interpreter

Games playable in an ALAN interpreter

Games playable on an Amiga computer

Games playable on an Amstrad computer

Games playable on an Apple II computer

a subdirectory for Tom Zuchowski's original, complete, up-to-date Eamon Adventurer's Guild material

this directory contains copies of the original, complete collection of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild, converted to .dsk images by Paul David Doherty for use by Apple II emulators.

this directory contains issues of The Eamon Adventurer's Guild Newsletter, The Eamon Adventurer's Log, and The Eamon Deluxe Newsletter.

this directory contains the original, complete collection of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild, maintained by Tom Zuchowski. The files there are in ShrinkIt format for a real Appple II; DOS-3.3-specific files are in subdirectory dos33, ProDOS-specific files are in subdirectory prodos.

This subdirectory contains the files for DOS 3.3

This subdirectory contains the files for ProDOS

Games playable in an Archetype interpreter

Games playable on an Acorn Archimedes computer

Games playable on an 8-bit Atari computer

Games playable on an Atari ST computer

Games playable on a BBC Micro computer

Games playable on a BeOS computer

Games playable on a Commodore 64 computer

Games playable in various pocket calculators

Games playable on a Commodore PET computer

Games submitted to IFComp 2000

Games submitted to IFComp 2001

Games submitted to IFComp 2002

Games submitted to IFComp 2003

Games submitted to IFComp 2004

Games submitted to IFComp 2005

Games submitted to IFComp 2006

Games submitted to IFComp 2007

Games submitted to IFComp 2008

Games submitted to IFComp 2009

Games submitted to IFComp 2010

Games submitted to IFComp 2011

Games submitted to IFComp 2012

Games submitted to IFComp 2013

Games submitted to IFComp 2014

Games submitted to IFComp 2015

Games submitted to IFComp 2016

Games submitted to IFComp 2017

Games submitted to IFComp 2018

Games submitted to IFComp 2019

Games submitted to IFComp 2020

Games submitted to IFComp 2021

Games submitted to IFComp 2022

Games submitted to IFComp 2023

Games submitted to IFComp 2024

Games submitted to IFComp 1995

Games submitted to IFComp 1996

Games submitted to IFComp 1997

Games submitted to IFComp 1998

Games submitted to IFComp 1999

Games submitted to IF competitions

Games submitted to Spanish competitions

Games submitted to French competitions

Confiture de Parser (2024). French parser IF jam.

Games submitted to IFComp, the annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Games playable on a CP/M computer

Games playable on a Cybiko handheld computer

Free demos of commercial games

a directory that contains the famous TextFire, Inc. demos

Games playable in the Emacs text editor

Games playable in a Glulx interpreter

Games playable in a web browser

Games playable in a Hugo interpreter

Games created with the Ink system

Games playable in an INSTEAD interpreter

Games playable in a JACL interpreter

Games playable in a Java virtual machine

Games playable on a Linux computer

Games playable on an Apple Mac computer

Material relating to games running on old mainframe computer systems.

Games submitted to smaller competitions

AbilityComp (2009). Theme: special abilities.

Various competitions for the ADRIFT platform.

Anti-Productivity Jam (2024).

An arcade. Sixteen machines. (2001)

Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7 (2010). Theme: escape.

ChickenComp (1998).

Commodore 32 Contest (2004): Z-code games ≤32k.

Cover Stories jam (2012). Create cover art, then games to fit.

DinoComp (2000).

DragonComp (2000).

ECTOCOMP (yearly, 2007-), a Hallowe'en-themed competition.

EnvComp (2009). Theme: unusual settings.

IF Fan Fest (1998).

(2009). Theme: non-standard gameplay.

Scott Adams' Ghost Town Redux (2007).

HighlandComp (2001). Theme: Highlands of Scotland.

24 Hours of Inform (2002-4).

IF Beginners Competition (2008).

Interactive Fiction Writing Month (2009).

imaginary games from imaginary universes (2016).

IntroComp (yearly, 2002-). Unfinished games.

IFLibrary Competition (2002-3).

Locus Jam (2024). Games set in one specific location.

IF Logic Puzzle Mini-Competition (2003).

LOTECH Competitions (2001-6). Multiple-choice input only.

Manos mini-competition (2000).

McDream minicomps (2006). Based on authors' dreams.

MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contests (2009-10).

The First Ever (And Maybe The Only) Interactive Fiction Mini-Competition (1998).

Minigames Minicomp (2003). Compiled stories ≤50k.

Neo-Twiny Jam (2023–). Games under 500 words.

New Year's Minicomps (2016-8).

I-Comp (1999). No inventory allowed.

One Room Game Competitions (2002-10).

REALLY BAD IF jam (2024).

RomanceNovelComp (2002).

Segment Mini-comp (2005).

ShuffleComp (2014-). Games based on randomly chosen song titles.

SmoochieComp (2001). Theme: love and romance.

Entries to the many Speed-IF events.

SwashComp (2003). Theme: light-hearted swashbuckling adventure.

The Great IF Toaster Contest (2000).

A 2001 mini-comp on the theme of travel.

TWIFcomp (2010). Tweet-sized source code.

UseComp (2000). USE as the only puzzle-solving verb.

WackyComp (1999).

WalkthroughComp (2001). Games/transcripts matching a specific walkthrough.

XComp (1999). Theme: the paranormal.

Files missing from game collections

Games playable on an MSX computer

Games playable on an IBM OS/2 computer

Games playable on a Palm handheld computer

Games playable on a PC computer (Windows or MS-DOS)

Games playable in a PDF reader

Games playable in a Python interpreter

Games playable in a Quest interpreter

Games playable in a Quill interpreter

Games playable on a Sinclair QL computer

Games playable in a Sintac interpreter

Games provided as source code (in any programming language)

Games playable on a ZX Spectrum computer

Games submitted to the Spring Thing competition

Games playable in a TADS 2 or TADS 3 interpreter

Games playable in a T.A.G. interpreter

Games created with the Texture system

Games playable on a TRS-80 computer

Games created with the Twine system

Games playable on a VAX VMS computer

Games playable in a Z-Code interpreter

Games playable on a Sinclair ZX81 computer

Miscellaneous information, including database dumps and backups of various IF services

A directory containing download statistics for the IF Archive, starting from when the archive was housed at GMD.

SQL database dumps from the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB)

XML database dumps of the IF Wiki

SQL database dumps from the Interactive Fiction Forum

Material relating to Infocom, a commercial publisher of IF, active 1979-1989; and also tools relating to creation of new works using Infocom's story format (Z-machine) and its descendants

Advertisements published by Infocom

Magazine articles about Infocom and its works

Tools for building new works in the Z-machine format (and its descendants)

A macro assembler for the Z-machine

Version 5 of the Inform compiler (superseded by inform6)

a subdirectory with the Adaptive Hints library by Mike Phillips

Version 6 of the Inform compiler

Glulx-specific Inform library extensions.

Inform 7, a natural-language compiler

Historical versions of Inform (before Inform 5)

A C compiler targeting the Z-machine

A Z-machine assembler

A ZIL compiler (includes the ZAPF assembler)

Demo versions of Infocom games and other works

Fonts used in Infocom products

Hints and solutions for Infocom's games

Fan-made icons for Infocom's games (and other IF files)

Miscellaneous images relating to Infocom and its works

Information about Infocom and its works

Interpreters for Z-code works (both Infocom's and others'), and related tools

In the BASIC language

In Emacs Lisp

For Windows (also interprets Glulx)

For ncursesw

For Texas Instruments calculators

For Palm OS

For various platforms

In portable C

For the Nintendo Game Boy

For Javascript / Mozilla Firefox

In hardware design languages

For Javascript / Flash

For platforms supporting Glk

The Specification of the Z-Machine, and others

A directory for The Specification of the Z-Machine, Standard 0.2. This has been superseded by the 1.0 Standard.

For Android

Tests for Z-code interpreters, and other tools

In Python

In Java/C# / for phones supporting J2ME, and Windows Phones

For platforms supporting Glk

For the PDP-11

For the Glulx virtual machine

For various platforms

For Risc OS

In Java

For Mac OS X (and some other platforms) (also interprets Glulx, TADS, Hugo)

In Java

For Z80-based machines

Graphics and sound files from Infocom games

"New Zork Times" / "The Status Line", Infocom's newsletters

Patches to convert between versions of Infocom's games

Versions of documentation accompanying Infocom's games

Tools for working with Infocom's games, and with other Z-code files

IF interpreters that can play games written with multiple authoring systems

Interpreters built with Gargoyle, a Glk library offering high quality font rendering.

The "Poor Man's Interactive Fiction Player", a minimalist Linux multi-interpreter

A plugin based system, allowing different interpreter and output libraries to be used.

A Palm OS interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls, Z-code and Scott Adams games.

A MacOS Classic interpreter for AdvSys, AGT, Z-code, Scott Adams, Level 9, Apple II Eamon, Quill, and C64 Basic games.

Parchment, a Javascript web interpreter for Glulx, Hugo, TADS 2/3, and Z-Code

A Linux GTK2 interpreter for TADS 2, TADS 3, AGT and ADRIFT games.

Material relating to Level 9, a British text-adventure game company, active 1981-1991

Original clue sheets and contributed solutions for Level 9's games

Original clue sheets from Level 9

Contributed solutions to Level 9's games

Miscellaneous info about Level 9

Interpreters for playing Level 9's games on modern computers

The 'Level9' interpreter for Level 9 games

Scanned versions of the original Level 9 manuals

Scanned versions of novellas accompanying Level 9 releases

Tools for working with Level 9 game files

Published periodicals about IF

A Través del Espejo (Spanish)

El Aventurero (Spanish)

CAAD, a Spanish magazine by the Club de Aventuras AD

Discoverer's Digest

Interactive Fiction Now (later "IFN Magazine")

IFography

InsideADRIFT (originally "Drifter's Monthly")

Reviews Exchange

Sociedad para la Preservación/Promoción de las Aventuras Conversacionales (Spanish)

Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games magazine

Spanish Quest

SynTax, a disk magazine

Terra d'IF (Italian)

The Mag ("Designing a Text Adventure" subseries)

XYZZYnews

Zona Zero (Spanish; formerly "Z for Zero")

Material relating to Magnetic Scrolls, a British game developer, active 1984-1990

Tools for drawing/generating maps of IF rooms

Material relating to Phoenix games, developed at the University of Cambridge (UK) 1978-1985, and the offshoot commercial publisher Topologika

Tools for creating IF, and interpreters for playing it

a subdirectory containing Hugo programming examples and a link to the source code of complete Hugo games

a subdirectory containing compiled, executable versions of the Hugo compiler, debugger and runtime engine

a subdirectory containing standard Hugo grammar and library definitions and routines

a subdirectory containing the complete C source code of the Hugo compiler, debugger and runtime engine

A subdirectory that contains programming examples

Executables of TADS 2 for various systems

The standard TADS 2 library, as well as third-party fixes and extensions to the standard TADS library, e.g. Dave Baggett's WorldClass library

A directory for David Baggett's WorldClass library

Documentation for TADS 2

TADS 2 source code

A subdirectory that contains utility programs

Executables of TADS version 3 for various systems

The TADS 3 adventure library, including contributions from others

Documentation for TADS 3

Source code for TADS 3

Posts from the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction

Posts from the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction

Material relating to Scott and Alexis Adams' company Adventure International, active 1978-1985

Scott Adams' games for the Commodore 64.

Scott Adams' games for the CP/M operating system.

Scott Adams' games, converted to the format used by Alan Cox's ScottFree interpreter. (see scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree/ for interpreter programs)

Scott Adams' games for the TI99/4A.

Scott Adams' games, converted to Infocom's Z-code format. (see infocom/interpreters/ for interpreter programs)

Software to interact with your own computer as if it were a text adventure

Solutions, walkthroughs, hints, and maps for various works of IF

Material for getting started playing IF

Uploaded files wait here until the Archive team files them properly

Software for interacting with IF files