amusing attempt to re-live the old days… [via Waxy] for the record, at that time, i was in the early stages of my techie journey with a TI-99/4A (with the 128k (?) memory expansion, disk drive, voice synthesizer, 300 baud modem, printer – ah, what i wouldn’t do for a pic of my old desk),…
Read More Engadget 1985this is from the help files of Achaea – Dreams of Divine Lands, a text MUD we are contemplating throwing large portions of our life away to… it is a role-playing-required game, though, and i have not done that sort of thing since i was a teenager, and am not sure i am in any…
Read More tongue-in-cheek about out-of-characterof course, these days, they use the much broader (and therefore less descriptive) term “Interactive Fiction”, rather than text adventure… The Best of Interactive Fiction very good reference for choosing a game… Baf’s Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive The 10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition XYZZYnews Home Page EPOC Interactive Fiction now THIS is handheld…
Read More links – text adventure and a news itemWhy I hate Microsoft DTS Online – Consumer – Home Theatre – DVD Title Search Chicago Sun-Times – Roger Ebert – Movie Answer Man Museum of Hoaxes – Time Travel Spam Wired News: Turn Back the Spam of Time Achaea – Dreams of Divine Lands IRC Roleplaying – Dungeons and Dragons Games Looking for Players…
Read More a few various linkshttp://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63578,00.html damn fascinating… here are some excerpts… The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters. The designers of Achaea, one of…
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