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Useful Utilities

Disk 1245: Frobot Magic Adventure Mapper + Magnetic + PC Manic
           Miner and PC Lunar Jetman
Disks 1259a/c: Adventure Blaster - THE way to play IF! 3 disks,
œ4.50

Inform Games / Infocom

Disk 1082a/b: Inform 6.05 and 6.14 archives of all relevant files
           for a comprehensive Inform package, including manuals
           and examples, 2 disks, œ3.50
Disk 1188: Windows Interpreter for Inform (Infocom) games +
           Adventure (release 5) + BSE + Curses + Looking for
           Godot
Disk 1214: Z-CUT, Z5LIST and Colours (utilities) plus games A Bear's
           Night Out _ The Edifice + Travels in the Land of Erden
           + Zork: A Troll's Eye View


Disk 780:  Curses
Disk 792:  Busted
Disk 932:  Balances + A Change in the Weather + Theatre +
           Christminster
Disk 992:  Gumshoe + Inhumane + Jigsaw + All Quiet on the Library
           Front + Paperchase + Spiritwrak + Timekiller 1
Disk 993:  Detective (author CE Forman, written with Inform) +
           Murder on Violet Island + Spur (written with the
           utility Hugo IF)
Disk 1072: Lists and Lists + Piece of Mind + The Meteor The Stone
           and the Long Glass of Sherbet + Stargazer + Tube
           Trouble + The Wedding.
Disk 1073: Nine Points + Wearing the Claw + In The End +
           Mini-Zork + Tapestry + Vindaloo
Disk 1074: Cheater + Delusions + Return to Karn + Punkirita Quest
           1: Liquid + Rippled Flesh + House of the Stalker
Disk 1075: Fear + Adventure (release 3) + Looking for Godot + So
           Far + The Magic Toyshop
Disk 1076: Of Forms Unknown + Time: All Things Come to an End +
           Ralph + The Mind Electric
Disk 1077: Adventureland + BSE + Night at the Computer Centre +
           Reverberations + Windhall 1: The Path to Fortune
Disk 1078: Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures - The Golden
           Baton + The Time Machine + Arrow of Death (part 1) +
           Arrow of Death (part 2) + Escape from Pulsar 7 + Circus
           + Feasibility Experiment + Wizard of Akyrz + Perseus
           and Andromeda + Ten Little Indians + Waxworks
Disk 1158: Candy + CIA Adventure + The Ice Princess + Robots +
           Tryst of Fate + The Space Under the Window + Night of
           the Vampire Bunnies + Pick up the Phone Booth and Die
           (2 parts)
Disk 1174: Mystery Sceince Theatre:The Detective + Frozen:A Night
           at the Lab + Freefall + I:O Jailbait on Interstate Zero
           + Phlegm + SP Adventure.
Disk 1189: Soft Porn + the Family Legacy + She's Got a Thing for a
           Spring + Sylenius Mysterium
Disk 1193: Kook-u + The Zuni Doll + Acorn Court + A Good Breakfast
Disk 1195: Zork:The Undiscovered Underground (plus WinFrotz) + The
           Resident + Promoted + The Mad Bomber (arcade game)

Disk 1214: A Bear's Night Out + The Edifice + Travels in the Land
           of Erden + Zork: A Troll's Eye View + 3 utilities
           Z-CUT, Z5LIST and Colours
Disk 1216: The Lost Spellmaker + Sins Against Mimesis + Mercy + A
           Week in the Life
Disks 1224a/b: 16 TextFire Inc demos. One in Hugo. 9 in TADS. See
           those sections.  The Inform games are Revenge of the
           Killer Surf Nazi Robot Babes from Hell, NBad Guys, An
           Exploration of Color, Flowers for Algernon, Once,
           Zugzwang.
Disk 1228: A New Day + Spider and Web + Lack of Vision
Disk 1229: Scott Adams Adventures + infocom.exe
Disk 1230: 18 ScottAdams advs + 11 Mysterious Advs (Brian Howarth)
           + infocom and frotz
Disk 1237: The Incredible Adventures of Stiffy Makaneby, Limp +
           Slacker-X + Moist (TADS) - all adult, do not buy or
           play these games if you are likely to be offended.
Disk 1263: 19 Chicken Competition games written with various
           utilities - Inform, TADS, HUGO and Alan - 3 disks, œ4

Disk 1268: Anchorhead + Bloodline + Inherit + Something about the
           Bunny
Disk 1269: MYST3000 presents The Detective (port of Stewart Moore's
           AGT game)
Disk 1270: The Awakening + Rogue (Inform port of RPG)
Disk 1278: Alpha + Detective (Barringer) + Hell + It's a Dog's
           Life
Disk 1283: Infocom 1.8 versions of MSTings of A Fable + The
           Detective
Disk 1289: Acid Whiplash + Cattus Attrox + Little Blue Men + The
           City + Trapped in a One Room Dilly + Where Evil Dwells
           + Fifteen + Human Resources Stories + Cask +
           Congratulations
Disk 1290: Informatory + Mother Loose + Muse + Photopia +
           Downtown Tokyo
Disk 1291: Enlightenment + Purple + Research Dig + Ritual of
           Purification + Space Station + In the Spotlight +
           Friday Afternoon + The Tempest + Aunt Nancy's House.


TADS Text Adventures.

Disk 288: TADS v1.2 plus Ditch Day Drifter
Disk 540: TADS v2.1
Disk 781: TADS v2.2
Disk 1080: TADS v2.2.1 (no docs) plus Ditch Day Drifter source
Disk 1273: HTML TADS Author's Kit v2.2.4
Disk 1274: HTML TADS Player's Kit v2.2.4
Disk 1274: TADS v2.2.4 for DOS
Disks 1285a/b: TADS v2.2.6 (œ3.50)

Disk 925: TADS Utilities - TextOut v1.1 (text string outputter for
          spellchecking) + VeriVerb v1.0 (verb verifier) +
          Wizard's Toolkit (debugging tools for TADS v2.1
          upwards, sounds very handy) and WorldClass (add on
          library for TADS v2.2 upwards, lots of handy routines
          such as more game debugging shortcuts, a maze, coins,
          a cupcake dispenser (!) and more ...) HDD.
Disk 948: More TADS Utilities - adhint, answerme, askabout,
          brackets, clothing, cmdprmpt, d2array, ddialog, demo22,
          eliza, footnote, funcs, goto, instruct, jeffslib, music,
          shoc, surface, tads.tip-sheet, timedisp, and water. Plus
          PC-GO32_, a compiler and runtime to allow you to use
          your extended memory. See article in Issue 42 for more
          details of these files. HDD
Disk 998: The full TADS v2.2 Manual in ASCII format
Disk 1079: The full TADS v2.2 manual in HTML format plus
           source code to TADS itself
Disk 1166: The TADS Manual - again! - but this time in WRI format
Disk 1181: WinTADS (for 3.1 and 95) v1.1.1
Disks 1238a/c: HTML TADS + The Golden Skull (3 disks, œ5.00)

Disk 289: Deep Space Drifter
Disk 329: Unnkulian Unventure I - The Unknown Unventure
Disk 330: Unnkulian Unventure II - The Secret of Acme
Disk 526: HiTech Drifter plus source code
Disk 527: The Great Archeological Race
Disk 533: Save Princeton
Disk 534: Alice source code
Disk 546: Unnkulia One-Half:The Salesman Triumphant
Disk 605: The Four Symbols - cutback version
Disk 659: The Horror of Rylvania - demo (full game on Disk 1190)
Disk 669: The Golden Fleece - TADS and original version)
Disk 714: Gerbil Riot of '67 - cutback version
Disk 794: Lost
Disk 815: GC: A Thrashing Parity Bit of the Mind
Disk 816: Fire Witch
Disk 933: Uncle Zebulon's Will
Disk 934: Enhanced
Disk 936: The Legend Lives!
Disk 964: Veritas
Disk 965: Toonesia
Disk 966: PC University
Disk 967: Undertow
Disk 968: The One that Got Away
Disk 969: A Night in the Museum Forever
Disk 970: Waystation
Disk 971: Wormhole : The Beginning
Disk 994: Lethe Flow Phoenix

Disk 1000: Urban Cleanup + The Underoos that Ate New York + Ski
           Adventure
Disk 1001: Hero Inc. Part 1 + Past Tense
Disk 1002: Frustration + The Holy Grail + The Mission
Disk 1063: Alien Abduction? + Perdition's Flames
Disk 1064: The Broken String + Frustration
Disk 1065: The Mission + Past Tense
Disk 1066: The Holy Grail + Kissing the Buddha's Feet
Disk 1067: Dungeon + Shadowland I: The Tower of Tron
Disk 1068: Maiden of the Moonlight + Small World.
Disk 1069: Colossal Cave Revisited v1.0 (Disk 1192 has V2.0) +
           Frobozz Magic Support + HERO, INC. - Calling All Heroes
Disk 1070: +=3 + Aayela + Tyler's Great Cube Game + Silence of
           the Lambs + Modernisms + The Singular, and Historically
           Inaccurate, Misadventures of Nobeard:  Would-be
           Scourge of the Caribbean
Disk 1071: FooM + The Pesach Adventure + Ski Adventure + The
           Underoos that ate New York + Undo
Disk 1148: The Gerbil Riot of '67
Disk 1175: Magic Realms:The Sword of Kasza + Myth
Disk 1183: Escape from the Arboretum
Disk 1190: The Horror of Rylvania
Disk 1191: Unnkulia Zero
Disk 1192: Colossal Cave Revisited v2.0
Disk 1199: The Sea of Night + 2044 Stormtrooper + The Obscene
           Quest of Dr Aardvarkbarf
Disk 1205: Losing Your Grip + Glowgrass
Disk 1211: Frenetic Five + Lessons of the Tortoise
Disk 1219: Small World 2 + Everyone Loves a Parade
Disks 1224a/b: 16 TextFire Inc demos. One in Hugo. 6 in Inform.
           See those sections. The TADS games are Coma!, The US
           Men's Hockey Team Olympic Challenge, The Inanimator,
           Insomnia, Jack's Adventures, Operate!, Pumping!, A
           Tenuous Hold and Verb!
Disk 1226: Everyone Loves a Parade for WinTADs + George is a
           Friend (TextFire Inc Demo)
Disk 1227: Firebird + Sunset Over Savannah
Disk 1237: Moist + 4 Inform games - The Incredible Adventures of
           Stiffy Makaneby + Blowjob + Limp + Slacker-X - all

           adult, do not buy or play these games if you are likely
           to be offended
Disk 1263: 19 Chicken Competition games written with various
           utilities - Inform, TADS, HUGO and Alan, 3 disks œ4
Disk 1279: Barometer + Mansion + Follywood Hijinx (WinTADS) +
           Learning to Cross + Chicken under the Window + Total
           Paddling Mania + ASCII Cars
Disk 1282: WinTADS version of Landing
Disk 1284: Zero Sum Game
Disk 1287: Arrival + Damp Camp
Disk 1301: Lightiania + The Plant + Four in One

AGT Adventure Writing Utility

Disk 198: AGT v1.3 and 1.35 - œ3.50 (multiple disks)
Disk 859: AGT v1.7
Disk 237: AGT Utilities - AGTBIG, POPHINT, PRETTY, SCRIPTER
Disk 470: AGT AID - makes writing AGT games even easier!


Disk 525: AGT Adventure Author + AGTDOC + AGTBLURB + AGTNUM +
          AGTMACRO plus some source codes
Disk 962: AGTBIG 1.7 plus the debugger AGTLINT

AGT Text Adventures

Disk 167: Betty Carlson's Big Date
Disk 168: Deena of Kolini - adult
Disk 169: Christian Text Adventure + Lottery
Disk 195: Andkara
Disk 200: What Personal Computer?
Disk 215: Escape from the ELI Disk 217: Weekend Survival
Disk 219: Magic Mansion              Disk 220: Mold 1
Disk 222: NMR2                       Disk 224: Pyramid
Disk 226: Storms                     Disk 228: Two Ways
Disk 229: Crime to the Ninth Power   Disk 230: Humongous Cave
Disk 232: Orientation to the Van Pelt Library
Disk 234: NMR
Disk 236: Whatever We Decide to Call this Game
Disk 244: Dragonslayer - adult       Disk 265: Crusade
Disk 267: Son of Stagefright         Disk 268: Elf's Adventure
Disk 278: Misadventures of the Holy Grail
Disk 287: What? No Low Alcohol Mineral Water!
Disk 291: Space Aliens Laughed at my Cardigan
Disk 307: Ghost Town                 Disk 309: A Dudley Dilemma
Disk 315: Castle of the Alchemists
Disk 320: Apprentice, the Testing of a Magical Novice
Disk 322: Colossal Cave (David Gasior's version)
Disk 324: Escape from Prison Island  Disk 326: Sanity Clause
Disk 327: CosmoServe                 Disk 328: Disenchanted
Disk 331: Fleece Quest               Disk 334: Hotel Notell
Disk 336: The Rescue of the Fair Princess Priscilla...
Disk 338: Deadly Labyrinth           Disk 340: Library
Disk 342: The Lost Stone Mansion     Disk 344: Sherwood
Disk 346: Spelunker's Tremendous Cave Adventure (spoof Colossal)
Disk 348: Tales of Tavisa
Disk 349: The Multi-dimensional Thief
Disk 351: The Tomb of the Ancient Pharaohs
Disk 352: Mop and Murder           Disk 363: New England Gothic
Disk 447: Pyramid of Muna          Disk 448: Love's Fiery Rapture
Disk 449: Tark                     Disk 450: Battle of Philip ...
Disk 451: Der Ring Des Nibelungen  Disk 452: Susan (adult)
Disk 453: Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla
Disk 454: Pork                     Disk 455: Pork 2
Disk 456: House of the Os          Disk 457: Star Portal
Disk 458: The Pilot                Disk 459: Fast Lane
Disk 495: Odieus' Quest for the Magic Flingshot
Disk 496: Squynchia Adventure      Disk 497: Jubilee Road
Disk 498: The Darkest Road
Disk 501: Oklib's Revenge (unreg)  Disk 531: Wraith Blaster
Disk 535: Shades of Grey           Disk 552: Helvera
Disk 553: Murder of Jane Kranz     Disk 554: The Detective
Disk 555: Cliff Diver:Purchased Sight Unseen
Disk 556: The Caves of Dyanty      Disk 557: Lady in Green
Disk 558: Time Squared
Disk 559: Quest for the Black Pearl
Disk 560: The Tempest              Disk 561: Re-runs Again
Disk 562: A Journey into Xanth
Disk 563: Zim Greenleaf's Laboratory
Disk 575: The Unborn One           Disk 595: 'Twas a Time of Dread
Disk 611: Tamoret
Disk 612: The Spatent Obstruction
Disk 613: Cruising the Strip       Disk 672: Cercla
Disk 673: Murder at the Folkestone Inn
Disk 674: The Rift                 Disk 675: Lost Property
Disk 677: The Game of Recovery     Disk 678: Wizard's Castle
Disk 679: Lost in Space            Disk 680: Sir Guy Gallant
Disk 681: Ducksoup                 Disk 687: Klaustrophobia
Disk 766: Mission's End            Disk 821: Lost Gold
Disk 853: Pyramid of Peril         Disk 876: Zanfar v1.2
Disk 914: The Test
Disk 935: An Invitation to a Picnic
Disk 995: Witchfinder (PD version) + The Detective (author
          Barringer) + Highe + Pyramids of Mars.
Disk 1141: Bajoran Mercenary Adventure + Electrabot + The Haunted
           House
Disk 1159: The Hardest Adventure in the World + Mystery Science
           Theatre 3000 presents The Detective (Master)
Disk 1168: Personalised Adventure Games + Cod Wilcox II:Pagan
           Puppy, written by reader Andrew J Wielochowski.
Disk 1262: House to House + My First Stupid Game - this disk will
           be added to

AGT for Windows

Disk 822: AGT for Windows + Colossal Cave for Windows
Disk 823: Humongous Cave for Windows

AGiliTy Games

Disk 1202: E-Mailbox + Sir Ramic Hobbs and the Oriental Wok

AGT Master Games, may use pix and sound

Disk 730: AGT Master's Edition, three disks œ5.00
Disk 594: Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! - HDD
Disk 604: Brainscape + Wade Wars 3 (Wade Wars 3 isn't AGT)
Disk 620: Sherlock Holmes
Disk 682: The Stolen - Landmark?! - of Delos (HDD)
Disk 683: Space Mule
Disk 684: The Jewelled Arena
Disk 685: Oceana
Disk 686: ToHo Academy - HDD
Disk 963: Quest for the Magic Healing Plant.
Disk 1159: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 presents The Detective
          (Master) + The Hardest Adventure in the World (standard)
Disk 1160: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 presents The Detective
          (again!) - expanded version
Disk 1220: A Dudley Dilemma (new Master version of Disk 309)
Disk 1232: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 presents A Fable

GAGS and GAGS games

Disk 415: GAGS plus various adventures
Disk 416: Christian Text Adventure
Disk 860: Warlock + King Pieter's Treasure v1.0 (text)
NB All GAGS disks contain a CONFIG.SYS file so must not be put
into the root directory of a bootable drive or disk.


CAT - C Adventure Toolkit.

Disk 266: CAT - write your own text adventures, needs C compiler.
Disk 357: Everyday Adventure

EAMON Games

Disk 303: Assault                Disk 304: Quest for Trezore

Other Adventure Writing Systems, Help Files etc
(See also the relevant sections eg Inform, TADS, AGT for specific
utilities and games)

Disk 292: QuestMaker v2.4 - design your own Sierra-style adventures.
Disk 394: Adventure Writer - text
Disk 521: Three utilites: Adventure Compiler/Interpreter plus game
          Mugger + ADVSYS + Adventure Maker - text
Disk 523: Gamescape v2 + Levy Adventure System - both text
Disk 524: Figment - text
Disk 607: HIF (Hyperactive Interactive Fiction) - text
Disk 608: Gamescape vC.4 - text
Disk 609: Gamescape Lite vC.1 - text
Disk 648: DC Graphics Adventure Game Builder v3.0 - create RPGs,
          2HDD, œ3.50
Disk 661: CAW - Creative Adventure Writer v1.2 - for text games,
          plus sample adventures.
Disk 667: Game Builder Lite - create animated adventures.
          Comes with Turbopaint and sample game, Treasure Island.
Disk 1081:Hugo v2.2 for MSDOS from Kent Tessman includes manual
          and sample game (see also Disk 1260)
Disk 1108: The Adventurer - runs under Windows, uses icons as
          object graphics, v1.04
Disk 1234: Adventure Interpreter + L9Cut Version 2.09 + Zork Tool
          1.6
Disks 1235a/b: The Hint Library (2 disks. œ3.50)
Disk 1260: Hugo v2.5 beta
Disk 1276a/b: Alan v281 (2 disks, œ3.50)
@~If you have any disks suitable for inclusion in the list, please
@~contact me. Disks are exchanged on a one-for-one basis.
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