Catching up on the Net

                        By N.NcCombe

Mostly adventures this time round, but the update of TADS makes up
for it.

Utilities

1. HTML TADS Author's kit version 2.2.4, by Mike Roberts - This
contains everything needed to write TADS or HTML TADS games under
Windows 95/NT, including compiler, debugger, character mode and
HTML run-times, library files and notes. A self extracting archive

2. HTML TADS Player's kit version 2.2.4, by Mike Roberts - This
contains everything needed to play TADS or HTML TADS games under
Windows 95/NT, including character mode and HTML run-times.  A
self extracting archive


3. TADS2EXE, TADS2EXX and TADS2RUN - The various TADS executables
required for MSDOS

4. UNIVERSAL HINT SYSTEM - An update(6) of new adventure hints

New and Up-dated Adventures.

1.ADVENTURE [adv430] - This is Don Woods' expansion of Willie
Crowthers' Adventure (in the Colossal Cave). This is the one that
started all our problems, so suffer some more.

2. APPRENTICE WIZARD [AGT] - Hoping for promotion, you present
yourself to your tutor and find yourself sent on a proving mission
to gain this promotion. Your quest starts in a stone room with no
way out.

3. THE AWAKENING by Denis Matheson Inform v6 Release 1 SN 980726
- A horror story based very loosely on the stories of H.P.
Lovecraft.

4. LYING DOWN by Kent Tessman release 2 27/06/98 using Hugo
compiler 2.5 - This is a new release of Kent's entry in the 1997
Interactive Fiction Competition.

5. GUILTY BASTARDS - Another Kent Tessman [HUGO] Adventure.  This
time with bells on! ... Sorry, I mean Graphics and sound. This
is a good one, well worth a play, if only for the music and
pictures.

6. HOUSE TO HOUSE - An AGT adventure by Jason and Keith Billard.
Monday morning and you force yourself to the bathroom. The shower
is cold. As you struggle to dry yourself, you recall last night's
dream with its weird places, ugly creations and strange
happenings ... you vaguely recall struggling with a monster ...
but your nightmare couldn't become real? .... COULD IT?

7. Adam Cadre's "CHICKEN COMPETITION" - A mini-adventure
competition based on jokes about a chicken crossing the road.
There is a total of 19 entries in this competition, just 'waiting
to egg you on!'
7a. LEARNING TO CROSS [Release 2] An update of Mark J.  Musante's
Chicken Competition Entry

8. 1998 MINI-COMPETITION - Three entries to the 1998 Interactive
Fiction Competition
    BLOODLINE by Liza Daly  [Inform]
    INHERIT by Gunther Schmidl [Inform]
    SOMETHING ABOUT BUNNY by Glyph  [Inform]

9. MOIST v1.03 [TADS] A Scarlet Herring Erotic Adventure Game -
WARNING, this game contains scenes of an explicit sexual nature.
If you are under age, easily offended or 'just don't care for this
type of game', then leave it alone. If you do not fall into the
above classes, you STILL have been WARNED.

10. DETECTIVE - A port to Inform of Mystery Science Theatre 3000's
AGT port of Stewart Moore's AGT adventure DETECTIVE. You either
like these MYSTings or you hate them.


11. ROGUE [Inform] Release 2 - This is a port of the Classic game
'Rogue'. I remember it as 'dungeons'. You are the little ampersand
and you must travel the hidden dungeons collecting Gold, Potions
etc, etc while fighting Bats, Kestrels, etc, etc. Although it is a
very basic screen layout, it is good fun but not for a strict
interactive fiction buff.

12. WITCHFINDER - An AGT adventure by Kanga & Yak [Public Domain
Version]. You play the part of Bertrand (Bertie for short).
Returning home, you are overtaken by stormy weather. Seeking
shelter you leave the road and follow a track which leads you to a
driveway and a surprisingly imposing mansion. Sheltering in the
front porch, "it's make your mind up" time - before the storm
breaks.

13. THE DOROTHY MILLARD COLLECTION - This archive contains 18 text
adventures written for the C64 using the Quill. Set up your
emulator, unzip the adventures and away you go. You will never get
a better offer!!

14. GENOCIDE EARTH by Darryl Stone for the Amiga - a Sci-fi text
adventure with digitized graphics and music. Untested by myself as
I have no Amiga available.

15. SECRET AGENT parts 1 to 3 - Shareware from Apogee Software.
Three graphic adventures where you control your character (SAM) by
the cursor keys, etc. Enter various buildings and play the arcade
sections to build up your points. Certainly not Interactive
Fiction but great fun.

A LITTLE XTRA
MAP of SUSPENDED in ASCII format.

All the programs mentioned above are available from the SynTax
Library.

Till the next time
Nettie McCombe
August/September 1998
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