- if-archive
- if-archive/art
IF art shows and artistic endeavors
- if-archive/art/if-artshow
These are exhibits from Marnie Parker's (aka Doe aka FemaleDeer)
IF Art Show contests.
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/spring1999
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/summer1999
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/year2000
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/year2001
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/year2003
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/year2004
- if-archive/art/if-artshow/year2007
- if-archive/art/mhto
The Mystery House Taken Over project
- if-archive/articles
Articles about IF
- if-archive/articles/german
- if-archive/books
Books about IF
- if-archive/collections
Collections of IF material
- if-archive/download-tools
Legacy tools for unzipping, unarchiving, and decoding compressed binaries
- if-archive/download-tools/amiga
- if-archive/download-tools/appleII
- if-archive/download-tools/appleIIGS
- if-archive/download-tools/atari
- if-archive/download-tools/c64
- if-archive/download-tools/mac
- if-archive/download-tools/pc
- if-archive/download-tools/unix
- if-archive/emulators
Programs for emulating old computer systems
- if-archive/emulators/appleII
- if-archive/emulators/atari
- if-archive/emulators/c64
- if-archive/emulators/spectrum
- if-archive/emulators/trs80
- if-archive/games
Many thousands of IF games!
- if-archive/games/aas
Games playable in an AAS interpreter
- if-archive/games/adrift
Games playable in an ADRIFT interpreter
- if-archive/games/adrift/italian
- if-archive/games/adrift/spanish
- if-archive/games/adventions
Material relating to Adventions, an IF company active in the early 1990s
- if-archive/games/adventions/atari
- if-archive/games/adventions/mac
- if-archive/games/adventions/others
- if-archive/games/adventions/pc
- if-archive/games/advsys
Games playable in an AdvSys interpreter
- if-archive/games/age
Games playable with the Aetheria Game Engine Players' Kit
- if-archive/games/age/catalan
- if-archive/games/age/spanish
- if-archive/games/agt
Games playable in an AGT interpreter
- if-archive/games/agt/dutch
- if-archive/games/alan
Games playable in an ALAN interpreter
- if-archive/games/alan/german
- if-archive/games/amiga
Games playable on an Amiga computer
- if-archive/games/amiga/german
- if-archive/games/amiga/spanish
- if-archive/games/amstrad
Games playable on an Amstrad computer
- if-archive/games/amstrad/spanish
- if-archive/games/appleII
Games playable on an Apple II computer
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild
a subdirectory for Tom Zuchowski's original, complete,
up-to-date Eamon Adventurer's Guild material
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/dsk
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.
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/dsk/dos33
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/dsk/prodos
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/newsletter
this directory contains issues of The Eamon Adventurer's Guild
Newsletter, The Eamon Adventurer's Log, and The Eamon Deluxe
Newsletter.
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/original
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.
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/original/dos33
This subdirectory contains the files for DOS 3.3
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/original/prodos
This subdirectory contains the files for ProDOS
- if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/solutions
- if-archive/games/appleII/french
- if-archive/games/appleII/penguin
- if-archive/games/archetype
Games playable in an Archetype interpreter
- if-archive/games/archimedes
Games playable on an Acorn Archimedes computer
- if-archive/games/atari-8bit
Games playable on an 8-bit Atari computer
- if-archive/games/atari-ST
Games playable on an Atari ST computer
- if-archive/games/atari-ST/spanish
- if-archive/games/bbc
Games playable on a BBC Micro computer
- if-archive/games/beos
Games playable on a BeOS computer
- if-archive/games/c64
Games playable on a Commodore 64 computer
- if-archive/games/c64/dorothy-millard
- if-archive/games/c64/dutch
- if-archive/games/c64/german
- if-archive/games/c64/hungarian
- if-archive/games/c64/mario-moeller
- if-archive/games/c64/paul-panks
- if-archive/games/c64/penguin
- if-archive/games/c64/spanish
- if-archive/games/c64/zcode
- if-archive/games/calc
Games playable in various pocket calculators
- if-archive/games/cbm_pet
Games playable on a Commodore PET computer
- if-archive/games/competition2000
Games submitted to IFComp 2000
- if-archive/games/competition2001
Games submitted to IFComp 2001
- if-archive/games/competition2002
Games submitted to IFComp 2002
- if-archive/games/competition2003
Games submitted to IFComp 2003
- if-archive/games/competition2004
Games submitted to IFComp 2004
- if-archive/games/competition2005
Games submitted to IFComp 2005
- if-archive/games/competition2006
Games submitted to IFComp 2006
- if-archive/games/competition2007
Games submitted to IFComp 2007
- if-archive/games/competition2008
Games submitted to IFComp 2008
- if-archive/games/competition2009
Games submitted to IFComp 2009
- if-archive/games/competition2010
Games submitted to IFComp 2010
- if-archive/games/competition2011
Games submitted to IFComp 2011
- if-archive/games/competition2012
Games submitted to IFComp 2012
- if-archive/games/competition2013
Games submitted to IFComp 2013
- if-archive/games/competition2014
Games submitted to IFComp 2014
- if-archive/games/competition2015
Games submitted to IFComp 2015
- if-archive/games/competition2016
Games submitted to IFComp 2016
- if-archive/games/competition2017
Games submitted to IFComp 2017
- if-archive/games/competition2018
Games submitted to IFComp 2018
- if-archive/games/competition2019
Games submitted to IFComp 2019
- if-archive/games/competition2020
Games submitted to IFComp 2020
- if-archive/games/competition2021
Games submitted to IFComp 2021
- if-archive/games/competition2022
Games submitted to IFComp 2022
- if-archive/games/competition2023
Games submitted to IFComp 2023
- if-archive/games/competition2024
Games submitted to IFComp 2024
- if-archive/games/competition95
Games submitted to IFComp 1995
- if-archive/games/competition96
Games submitted to IFComp 1996
- if-archive/games/competition97
Games submitted to IFComp 1997
- if-archive/games/competition98
Games submitted to IFComp 1998
- if-archive/games/competition99
Games submitted to IFComp 1999
- if-archive/games/competitions
Games submitted to IF competitions
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish
Games submitted to Spanish competitions
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/brevecomp2
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/caad98
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/ficomp
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/medievocomp
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/nanocomp3
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/nanocomp4
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/retrocomp2004
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/retrocomp2006
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/xcomp2005
- if-archive/games/competitions-spanish/xcomp2008
- if-archive/games/competitions/ifcomp
Games submitted to IFComp, the annual Interactive Fiction Competition
- if-archive/games/cpm
Games playable on a CP/M computer
- if-archive/games/cybiko
Games playable on a Cybiko handheld computer
- if-archive/games/demos
Free demos of commercial games
- if-archive/games/demos/textfire
a directory that contains the famous TextFire, Inc. demos
- if-archive/games/emacs
Games playable in the Emacs text editor
- if-archive/games/glulx
Games playable in a Glulx interpreter
- if-archive/games/glulx/french
- if-archive/games/glulx/german
- if-archive/games/glulx/italian
- if-archive/games/glulx/russian
- if-archive/games/glulx/spanish
- if-archive/games/glulx/swedish
- if-archive/games/html
Games playable in a web browser
- if-archive/games/html/french
- if-archive/games/html/italian
- if-archive/games/html/portuguese
- if-archive/games/html/spanish
- if-archive/games/hugo
Games playable in a Hugo interpreter
- if-archive/games/ink
Games created with the Ink system
- if-archive/games/ink/french
- if-archive/games/instead
Games playable in an INSTEAD interpreter
- if-archive/games/instead/japanese
- if-archive/games/jacl
Games playable in a JACL interpreter
- if-archive/games/java
Games playable in a Java virtual machine
- if-archive/games/java/spanish
- if-archive/games/linux
Games playable on a Linux computer
- if-archive/games/linux/spanish
- if-archive/games/mac
Games playable on an Apple Mac computer
- if-archive/games/mainframe
Material relating to games running on old mainframe computer systems.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps
Games submitted to smaller competitions
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/abilitycomp
AbilityComp (2009). Theme: special abilities.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/adrift
Various competitions for the ADRIFT platform.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/arcade
An arcade. Sixteen machines. (2001)
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/cgdc7
Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7 (2010). Theme: escape.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/chicken
ChickenComp (1998).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/commodore32
Commodore 32 Contest (2004): Z-code games ≤32k.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/coverstories
Cover Stories jam (2012). Create cover art, then games to fit.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/dino
DinoComp (2000).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/dragon
DragonComp (2000).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/ectocomp
ECTOCOMP (yearly, 2007-), a Hallowe'en-themed competition.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/envcomp
EnvComp (2009). Theme: unusual settings.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/fan-fest
IF Fan Fest (1998).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/gameplaycomp
GameplayComp (2009). Theme: non-standard gameplay.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/ghosttown
Scott Adams' Ghost Town Redux (2007).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/highland
HighlandComp (2001). Theme: Highlands of Scotland.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/hours
24 Hours of Inform (2002-4).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/ifbeginners
IF Beginners Competition (2008).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/ifmonth
Interactive Fiction Writing Month (2009).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/imaginary
imaginary games from imaginary universes (2016).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/introcomp
IntroComp (yearly, 2002-). Unfinished games.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/library
IFLibrary Competition (2002-3).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/locusjam
Locus Jam (2024). Games set in one specific location.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/logic
IF Logic Puzzle Mini-Competition (2003).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/lotech
LOTECH Competitions (2001-6). Multiple-choice input only.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/manos
Manos mini-competition (2000).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/mcdream
McDream minicomps (2006). Based on authors' dreams.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/metafilter
MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contests (2009-10).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/mini-comp
The First Ever (And Maybe The Only) Interactive Fiction Mini-Competition (1998).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/minigames
Minigames Minicomp (2003). Compiled stories ≤50k.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/neo-twinyjam
Neo-Twiny Jam (2023–). Games under 500 words.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/neo-twinyjam/2024
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/newyears
New Year's Minicomps (2016-8).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/newyears/eleventh_hour
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/newyears/nein
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/newyears/tent
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/no-inventory
I-Comp (1999). No inventory allowed.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/oneroom
One Room Game Competitions (2002-10).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/reallybadif
REALLY BAD IF jam (2024).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/rncomp
RomanceNovelComp (2002).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/segment
Segment Mini-comp (2005).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/shufflecomp
ShuffleComp (2014-). Games based on randomly chosen song titles.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/smoochie
SmoochieComp (2001). Theme: love and romance.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/speedif
Entries to the many Speed-IF events.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/swashcomp
SwashComp (2003). Theme: light-hearted swashbuckling adventure.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/toaster
The Great IF Toaster Contest (2000).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/travel
A 2001 mini-comp on the theme of travel.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/twifcomp
TWIFcomp (2010). Tweet-sized source code.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/usecomp
UseComp (2000). USE as the only puzzle-solving verb.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/wacky
WackyComp (1999).
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/walk
WalkthroughComp (2001). Games/transcripts matching a specific walkthrough.
- if-archive/games/mini-comps/xcomp
XComp (1999). Theme: the paranormal.
- if-archive/games/missing-stuff
Files missing from game collections
- if-archive/games/msx
Games playable on an MSX computer
- if-archive/games/msx/spanish
- if-archive/games/os2
Games playable on an IBM OS/2 computer
- if-archive/games/palm
Games playable on a Palm handheld computer
- if-archive/games/pc
Games playable on a PC computer (Windows or MS-DOS)
- if-archive/games/pc/bbs
- if-archive/games/pc/db-taylor
- if-archive/games/pc/dutch
- if-archive/games/pc/eamon
- if-archive/games/pc/education
- if-archive/games/pc/french
- if-archive/games/pc/german
- if-archive/games/pc/hungarian
- if-archive/games/pc/hw-williams
- if-archive/games/pc/italian
- if-archive/games/pc/paul-panks
- if-archive/games/pc/penguin
- if-archive/games/pc/polish
- if-archive/games/pc/portuguese
- if-archive/games/pc/russian
- if-archive/games/pc/spanish
- if-archive/games/pc/swedish
- if-archive/games/pdf
Games playable in a PDF reader
- if-archive/games/python
Games playable in a Python interpreter
- if-archive/games/python/german
- if-archive/games/quest
Games playable in a Quest interpreter
- if-archive/games/quest/spanish
- if-archive/games/quill
Games playable in a Quill interpreter
- if-archive/games/sinclair-ql
Games playable on a Sinclair QL computer
- if-archive/games/sinclair-ql/spanish
- if-archive/games/sintac
Games playable in a Sintac interpreter
- if-archive/games/source
Games provided as source code (in any programming language)
- if-archive/games/source/adventuron
- if-archive/games/source/agt
- if-archive/games/source/alan
- if-archive/games/source/basic
- if-archive/games/source/basic/german
- if-archive/games/source/basic/portuguese
- if-archive/games/source/basic/swedish
- if-archive/games/source/dendry
- if-archive/games/source/dialog
- if-archive/games/source/gags
- if-archive/games/source/hugo
- if-archive/games/source/iage
- if-archive/games/source/inform
- if-archive/games/source/inform/dutch
- if-archive/games/source/inform/french
- if-archive/games/source/inform/italian
- if-archive/games/source/inform/spanish
- if-archive/games/source/inform/swedish
- if-archive/games/source/java
- if-archive/games/source/russian
- if-archive/games/source/sintac
- if-archive/games/source/superglus
- if-archive/games/source/tads
- if-archive/games/source/tads/czech
- if-archive/games/source/tads/russian
- if-archive/games/source/twine
- if-archive/games/source/twine/german
- if-archive/games/source/twine/spanish
- if-archive/games/spectrum
Games playable on a ZX Spectrum computer
- if-archive/games/spectrum/spanish
- if-archive/games/spectrum/swedish
- if-archive/games/springthing
Games submitted to the Spring Thing competition
- if-archive/games/springthing/2002
- if-archive/games/springthing/2003
- if-archive/games/springthing/2005
- if-archive/games/springthing/2006
- if-archive/games/springthing/2007
- if-archive/games/springthing/2008
- if-archive/games/springthing/2009
- if-archive/games/springthing/2010
- if-archive/games/springthing/2011
- if-archive/games/springthing/2012
- if-archive/games/springthing/2013
- if-archive/games/springthing/2014
- if-archive/games/springthing/2015
- if-archive/games/springthing/2016
- if-archive/games/springthing/2017
- if-archive/games/springthing/2018
- if-archive/games/springthing/2019
- if-archive/games/springthing/2020
- if-archive/games/springthing/2021
- if-archive/games/springthing/2022
- if-archive/games/springthing/2023
- if-archive/games/springthing/2024
- if-archive/games/tads
Games playable in a TADS 2 or TADS 3 interpreter
- if-archive/games/tads/czech
- if-archive/games/tads/german
- if-archive/games/tads/italian
- if-archive/games/tads/russian
- if-archive/games/tads/spanish
- if-archive/games/tag
Games playable in a T.A.G. interpreter
- if-archive/games/texture
Games created with the Texture system
- if-archive/games/trs80
Games playable on a TRS-80 computer
- if-archive/games/twine
Games created with the Twine system
- if-archive/games/twine/arabic
- if-archive/games/twine/bengali
- if-archive/games/twine/chinese
- if-archive/games/twine/esperanto
- if-archive/games/twine/french
- if-archive/games/twine/german
- if-archive/games/twine/italian
- if-archive/games/twine/korean
- if-archive/games/twine/malay
- if-archive/games/twine/polish
- if-archive/games/twine/portuguese
- if-archive/games/twine/russian
- if-archive/games/twine/spanish
- if-archive/games/twine/swedish
- if-archive/games/vms
Games playable on a VAX VMS computer
- if-archive/games/zcode
Games playable in a Z-Code interpreter
- if-archive/games/zcode/danish
- if-archive/games/zcode/dutch
- if-archive/games/zcode/french
- if-archive/games/zcode/german
- if-archive/games/zcode/italian
- if-archive/games/zcode/lojban
- if-archive/games/zcode/russian
- if-archive/games/zcode/slovenian
- if-archive/games/zcode/spanish
- if-archive/games/zcode/swedish
- if-archive/games/zx81
Games playable on a Sinclair ZX81 computer
- if-archive/info
Miscellaneous information, including database dumps and backups of various IF services
- if-archive/info/archive-stats
A directory containing download statistics
for the IF Archive, starting from when the
archive was housed at GMD.
- if-archive/info/ifdb
SQL database dumps from the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB)
- if-archive/info/ifwiki
XML database dumps of the IF Wiki
- if-archive/info/intficforum
SQL database dumps from the Interactive Fiction Forum
- if-archive/infocom
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
- if-archive/infocom/adverts
Advertisements published by Infocom
- if-archive/infocom/articles
Magazine articles about Infocom and its works
- if-archive/infocom/compilers
Tools for building new works in the Z-machine format (and its descendants)
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/frolg
A macro assembler for the Z-machine
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5
Version 5 of the Inform compiler (superseded by inform6
)
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/examples
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/executables
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/library
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/library/contributions
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/library/contributions/adhints
a subdirectory with the Adaptive Hints library
by Mike Phillips
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/manuals
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/source
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5/utilities
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6
Version 6 of the Inform compiler
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/examples
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/examples/contributions
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/executables
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/library
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/library/contributions
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/library/contributions/glulx
Glulx-specific Inform library extensions.
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/library/translations
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/manuals
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/manuals/glulx
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/manuals/glulx/italian
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/manuals/glulx/spanish
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/manuals/italian
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/manuals/spanish
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/source
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/source/patches
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/utilities
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7
Inform 7, a natural-language compiler
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7/examples
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7/executables
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7/extensions
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7/manuals
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7/source
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform_early
Historical versions of Inform (before Inform 5)
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/vbcc
A C compiler targeting the Z-machine
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/zasm
A Z-machine assembler
- if-archive/infocom/compilers/zilf
A ZIL compiler (includes the ZAPF assembler)
- if-archive/infocom/demos
Demo versions of Infocom games and other works
- if-archive/infocom/fonts
Fonts used in Infocom products
- if-archive/infocom/hints
Hints and solutions for Infocom's games
- if-archive/infocom/hints/invisiclues
- if-archive/infocom/hints/maps
- if-archive/infocom/hints/online-hints
- if-archive/infocom/hints/solutions
- if-archive/infocom/icons
Fan-made icons for Infocom's games (and other IF files)
- if-archive/infocom/images
Miscellaneous images relating to Infocom and its works
- if-archive/infocom/info
Information about Infocom and its works
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters
Interpreters for Z-code works (both Infocom's and others'), and related tools
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/basic
In the BASIC language
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/emacs
In Emacs Lisp
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/filfre
For Windows (also interprets Glulx)
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/fizmo
For ncursesw
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/foblub
For Texas Instruments calculators
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frobnitz
For Palm OS
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz
For various platforms
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/fweep
In portable C
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/gameboy
For the Nintendo Game Boy
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/gnusto
For Javascript / Mozilla Firefox
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/hardware
In hardware design languages
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/muttonate
For Javascript / Flash
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/nitfol
For platforms supporting Glk
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/appleII
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/itf
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/pinfocom
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/yazi
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/zip
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/zipdebug
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/zmachine
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/zterp
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/specification
The Specification of the Z-Machine, and others
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/specification/zspec02
A directory for The Specification of the Z-Machine,
Standard 0.2. This has been superseded by the 1.0
Standard.
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/textfiction
For Android
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/tools
Tests for Z-code interpreters, and other tools
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/viola
In Python
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zax
In Java/C# / for phones supporting J2ME, and Windows Phones
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zeal
For platforms supporting Glk
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zemu
For the PDP-11
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zig
For the Glulx virtual machine
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zip
For various platforms
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zip2000
For Risc OS
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zmpp
In Java
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zoom
For Mac OS X (and some other platforms) (also interprets Glulx, TADS, Hugo)
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zpplication
In Java
- if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zxzvm
For Z80-based machines
- if-archive/infocom/media
Graphics and sound files from Infocom games
- if-archive/infocom/media/blorb
- if-archive/infocom/media/cga
- if-archive/infocom/media/ega
- if-archive/infocom/media/mcga
- if-archive/infocom/media/sound
- if-archive/infocom/NZT+TSL
"New Zork Times" / "The Status Line", Infocom's newsletters
- if-archive/infocom/patches
Patches to convert between versions of Infocom's games
- if-archive/infocom/shipped-documentation
Versions of documentation accompanying Infocom's games
- if-archive/infocom/tools
Tools for working with Infocom's games, and with other Z-code files
- if-archive/infocom/tools/reform
- if-archive/infocom/tools/ztools
- if-archive/interpreters-multi
IF interpreters that can play games written with multiple authoring systems
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/gargoyle
Interpreters built with Gargoyle, a Glk library offering high
quality font rendering.
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/ggzc
The "Poor Man's Interactive Fiction Player", a minimalist Linux multi-interpreter
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/ifp
A plugin based system, allowing different interpreter and output
libraries to be used.
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/kronos
A Palm OS interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls, Z-code and
Scott Adams games.
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/multiaventures
A MacOS Classic interpreter for AdvSys, AGT, Z-code, Scott Adams,
Level 9, Apple II Eamon, Quill, and C64 Basic games.
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/parchment
Parchment, a Javascript web interpreter for Glulx, Hugo, TADS 2/3, and Z-Code
- if-archive/interpreters-multi/rogue
A Linux GTK2 interpreter for TADS 2, TADS 3, AGT and ADRIFT games.
- if-archive/level9
Material relating to Level 9, a British text-adventure game company, active 1981-1991
- if-archive/level9/hints
Original clue sheets and contributed solutions for Level 9's games
- if-archive/level9/hints/clue-sheets
Original clue sheets from Level 9
- if-archive/level9/hints/solutions
Contributed solutions to Level 9's games
- if-archive/level9/info
Miscellaneous info about Level 9
- if-archive/level9/interpreters
Interpreters for playing Level 9's games on modern computers
- if-archive/level9/interpreters/level9
The 'Level9' interpreter for Level 9 games
- if-archive/level9/manuals
Scanned versions of the original Level 9 manuals
- if-archive/level9/novellas
Scanned versions of novellas accompanying Level 9 releases
- if-archive/level9/tools
Tools for working with Level 9 game files
- if-archive/magazines
Published periodicals about IF
- if-archive/magazines/ATE
A Través del Espejo (Spanish)
- if-archive/magazines/Aventurero
El Aventurero (Spanish)
- if-archive/magazines/CAAD
CAAD, a Spanish magazine by the Club de Aventuras AD
- if-archive/magazines/DiscoverersDigest
Discoverer's Digest
- if-archive/magazines/IFN
Interactive Fiction Now (later "IFN Magazine")
- if-archive/magazines/IFography
IFography
- if-archive/magazines/InsideAdrift
InsideADRIFT (originally "Drifter's Monthly")
- if-archive/magazines/ReviewsExchange
Reviews Exchange
- if-archive/magazines/SPAC
Sociedad para la Preservación/Promoción de las Aventuras Conversacionales (Spanish)
- if-archive/magazines/SPAG
Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games magazine
- if-archive/magazines/SQuest
Spanish Quest
- if-archive/magazines/SynTax
SynTax, a disk magazine
- if-archive/magazines/Terra
Terra d'IF (Italian)
- if-archive/magazines/TheMag
The Mag ("Designing a Text Adventure" subseries)
- if-archive/magazines/tools
- if-archive/magazines/XYZZYnews
XYZZYnews
- if-archive/magazines/ZonaZero
Zona Zero (Spanish; formerly "Z for Zero")
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls
Material relating to Magnetic Scrolls, a British game developer, active 1984-1990
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/hints
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/hints/solutions
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/info
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/interpreters
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/interpreters/dmagnetic
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/interpreters/magnetic
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/manuals
- if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/tools
- if-archive/mapping-tools
Tools for drawing/generating maps of IF rooms
- if-archive/phoenix
Material relating to Phoenix games, developed at the University of Cambridge (UK) 1978-1985, and the offshoot commercial publisher Topologika
- if-archive/phoenix/games
- if-archive/phoenix/games/bbc
- if-archive/phoenix/games/pc
- if-archive/phoenix/games/source
- if-archive/phoenix/games/zcode
- if-archive/phoenix/hints
- if-archive/phoenix/hints/maps
- if-archive/phoenix/hints/solutions
- if-archive/phoenix/hints/zcode
- if-archive/phoenix/info
- if-archive/phoenix/manuals
- if-archive/programming
Tools for creating IF, and interpreters for playing it
- if-archive/programming/aas
- if-archive/programming/ace
- if-archive/programming/adl
- if-archive/programming/adms
- if-archive/programming/adrift
- if-archive/programming/advbuilder
- if-archive/programming/adven80
- if-archive/programming/advent
- if-archive/programming/adventura
- if-archive/programming/advsim
- if-archive/programming/advsys
- if-archive/programming/agi
- if-archive/programming/agifg
- if-archive/programming/agt
- if-archive/programming/agt/agate
- if-archive/programming/agt/agility
- if-archive/programming/agt/contests
- if-archive/programming/agt/magx
- if-archive/programming/agt/magx/examples
- if-archive/programming/aiee
- if-archive/programming/alan
- if-archive/programming/alan/examples
- if-archive/programming/alan/executables
- if-archive/programming/alan/manuals
- if-archive/programming/alan/source
- if-archive/programming/alan/utils
- if-archive/programming/alan3
- if-archive/programming/alan3/executables
- if-archive/programming/alan3/library
- if-archive/programming/alan3/manuals
- if-archive/programming/amigaventure
- if-archive/programming/archetype
- if-archive/programming/aventuro
- if-archive/programming/bags
- if-archive/programming/blorb
- if-archive/programming/caecho
- if-archive/programming/cat
- if-archive/programming/caw
- if-archive/programming/cpp
- if-archive/programming/cutra
- if-archive/programming/dap
- if-archive/programming/debuggers
- if-archive/programming/drool
- if-archive/programming/editors
- if-archive/programming/figment
- if-archive/programming/gac
- if-archive/programming/gags
- if-archive/programming/gamebook
- if-archive/programming/gamescape
- if-archive/programming/general-discussion
- if-archive/programming/ginas
- if-archive/programming/glk
- if-archive/programming/glk/floo
- if-archive/programming/glk/implementations
- if-archive/programming/glk/implementations/patches
- if-archive/programming/glk/italian
- if-archive/programming/glulx
- if-archive/programming/glulx/compilers
- if-archive/programming/glulx/compilers/glulxa
- if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters
- if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/git
- if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/glulxe
- if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/quixe
- if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/zag
- if-archive/programming/glulx/tools
- if-archive/programming/glulx/tools/mrifk
- if-archive/programming/gtac
- if-archive/programming/hugo
- if-archive/programming/hugo/examples
a subdirectory containing Hugo programming examples and a
link to the source code of complete Hugo games
- if-archive/programming/hugo/executables
a subdirectory containing compiled, executable versions of
the Hugo compiler, debugger and runtime engine
- if-archive/programming/hugo/library
a subdirectory containing standard Hugo grammar and library
definitions and routines
- if-archive/programming/hugo/library/contributions
- if-archive/programming/hugo/manuals
- if-archive/programming/hugo/source
a subdirectory containing the complete C source code of the
Hugo compiler, debugger and runtime engine
- if-archive/programming/hugo/utilities
- if-archive/programming/iage
- if-archive/programming/instead
- if-archive/programming/jacl
- if-archive/programming/javascript
- if-archive/programming/lads
- if-archive/programming/mdl
- if-archive/programming/mdl/interpreters
- if-archive/programming/mdl/interpreters/confusion
- if-archive/programming/mdl/manuals
- if-archive/programming/mechanique
- if-archive/programming/nemlin
- if-archive/programming/nmp
- if-archive/programming/oasys
- if-archive/programming/paws
- if-archive/programming/prometeo
- if-archive/programming/quest
- if-archive/programming/questmaker
- if-archive/programming/quill
- if-archive/programming/ramus
- if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure
- if-archive/programming/sintac
- if-archive/programming/skc
- if-archive/programming/superglus
- if-archive/programming/tads1
- if-archive/programming/tads2
- if-archive/programming/tads2/examples
A subdirectory that contains programming examples
- if-archive/programming/tads2/examples/worldclass
- if-archive/programming/tads2/executables
Executables of TADS 2 for various systems
- if-archive/programming/tads2/library
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
- if-archive/programming/tads2/library/translations
- if-archive/programming/tads2/library/worldclass
A directory for David Baggett's WorldClass library
- if-archive/programming/tads2/manuals
Documentation for TADS 2
- if-archive/programming/tads2/source
TADS 2 source code
- if-archive/programming/tads2/utils
A subdirectory that contains utility programs
- if-archive/programming/tads3
- if-archive/programming/tads3/examples
- if-archive/programming/tads3/executables
Executables of TADS version 3 for various systems
- if-archive/programming/tads3/library
The TADS 3 adventure library, including
contributions from others
- if-archive/programming/tads3/library/contributions
- if-archive/programming/tads3/manuals
Documentation for TADS 3
- if-archive/programming/tads3/source
Source code for TADS 3
- if-archive/programming/tads3/utils
- if-archive/programming/tag
- if-archive/programming/textopia
- if-archive/programming/twine
- if-archive/programming/txa
- if-archive/programming/worldbuilder
- if-archive/rec.arts.int-fiction
Posts from the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction
- if-archive/rec.games.int-fiction
Posts from the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction
- if-archive/scott-adams
Material relating to Scott and Alexis Adams' company Adventure International, active 1978-1985
- if-archive/scott-adams/games
- if-archive/scott-adams/games/c64
Scott Adams' games for the Commodore 64.
- if-archive/scott-adams/games/cpm
Scott Adams' games for the CP/M operating system.
- if-archive/scott-adams/games/scottfree
Scott Adams' games, converted to the format used by Alan Cox's
ScottFree interpreter.
(see scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree/ for interpreter programs)
- if-archive/scott-adams/games/ti99
Scott Adams' games for the TI99/4A.
- if-archive/scott-adams/games/zcode
Scott Adams' games, converted to Infocom's Z-code format.
(see infocom/interpreters/ for interpreter programs)
- if-archive/scott-adams/hints
- if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters
- if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/bunyon
- if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/jscott
- if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree
- if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/taylormade
- if-archive/scott-adams/tools
- if-archive/shells
Software to interact with your own computer as if it were a text adventure
- if-archive/solutions
Solutions, walkthroughs, hints, and maps for various works of IF
- if-archive/solutions/dutch
- if-archive/solutions/french
- if-archive/solutions/german
- if-archive/solutions/maps
- if-archive/solutions/pophints
- if-archive/solutions/slag
- if-archive/solutions/slag/source
- if-archive/solutions/thl
- if-archive/solutions/tools
- if-archive/starters
Material for getting started playing IF
- if-archive/starters/italian
- if-archive/unprocessed
Uploaded files wait here until the Archive team files them properly
- if-archive/utilities
Software for interacting with IF files