This directory contains all the games, each one in its own directory, sorted by programming language.
The following files were added after the creation of the archives comp98.zip and Comp98.sit.bin. All files submitted by the game authors with permission from David Dyte.
inform/atrox/atrox.txt : walkthrough for Cattus Atrox
inform/photopia/bug.txt : a bug in Photopia and how not to run into it
tads/arrival/bug.txt : a bug in Arrival and how to circumvent it
tads/arrival/arrival.rs1 : sound resource file for Arrival
CC, by Mikko Vuorinen. Requires Alan interpreter (Arun) 2.8 to run.
Persistence of Memory, by Anonymous. (an updated version of this game is in games/hugo/memory.hex)
Acid Whiplash, by Anonymous, or rather: Rybread Celsius Can't Find a Dictionary, by Rybread Celsius and Cody Sandifer. Release 1 / Serial number 980928.
Cattus Atrox, by David A. Cornelson. Release 3.981001. (source code is in games/source/inform/AtroxSrc.zip)
Little Blue Men, an interactive object lesson by Michael S. Gentry. Release 1 / Serial number 980923.
The City version 2, an interactive short-experience by Sam Barlow. Release 1 / Serial number 980930.
Trapped in a One-Room Dilly, by Laura A. Knauth. Release 1 / Serial number 980917.
Enlightenment: a One Room Absurdity by Taro Stephen Ogawa. Release 7 / Serial number 891001.
Where Evil Dwells, by Paul Johnson and Steve Owens. Release 1 / Serial number 980930.
Fifteen, by Ricardo Dague. Release 1 / Serial number 980926.
Human Resources Stories: In Search of Employment by Harry M. Hardjono. Release 1 / Serial number 980930.
Informatory, by William S. Shlaer. Release 1 / Serial number 980929. (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/Informat.z5)
Mother Loose, an Interactive Nursery Rhyme by Irene Callaci. Release 1 / Serial number 980928. (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/loose.z5)
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang. Release 1 / Serial number 980927. (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/muse.z5)
Photopia, by Opal O'Donnell. (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/photopia.z5 and games/pc/photopia.exe)
Purple, a passage through disaster, by Stefan Blixt. Release 1 / Serial number 980929.
Research Dig, by Chris Armitage. Release 1 / Serial number 980930.
The Ritual of Purification, an Interactive Cleansing by Sable. Release 1 / Serial number 980927.
Spacestation, by David Ledgard. Release 1 / Serial number 980819. (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/spacest2.z5)
In the Spotlight, an Unexpected Intelligence Test by John Byrd. Release 5 / Serial number 980929.
Downtown Tokyo Present Day, by Digby McWiggle. Release 1 / Serial number 980930.
The Commute, by Kevin Copeland.
I Didn't Know You Could Yodel! by Michael R. Eisenman and Andrew J. Indovina. Ver 1.12 / Release 24 / Serial number 8675309.
Arrival, or, Attack of the B-Movie Clichés by Samantha Clark. Version 1 (Sep 30 1998). (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/arrival.zip; source code is in games/source/tads/arrsrc.zip)
Four In One, an Interactive Comedy by J. Robinson Wheeler. Version 1.0. (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/fourin1.gam; source code is in games/source/tads/4in1_src.zip)
Lightiania, by Gustav Bodell. Version 1.14.00.
The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts. (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/plant_2.zip and its source code is in games/source/tads/plantsrc_2.zip)
comp98.zip converted to Macintosh format by Andrew Plotkin. Download in binary mode!
The 'front-end' game for the 1998 competition, providing information on all the games and systems used to run them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play into a random list. Written by Lucian Paul Smith.
all the entries in this year's competition in one package. Unzip into a directory with the -d option to preserve the original subdirectory structure. See also the note above about files that were added after comp98.zip was created.
David Dyte's announcement that he is the organiser of the 1998 IF Writing Competition
a list of which author chose which prize in the 1998 competition.
David Dyte's note about this year's competition: read this to find out where to get more information
The results of the 1998 competition
some important dates, by David Dyte