The Interactive Fiction Archive Has Moved

                Information from John Ferris

The Interactive Fiction Archive on ftp.gmd.de has closed. GMD is a
German IT research company and the archive was created by Volker
Blasius, an employee, in an effort to collect IF/Adventure related
material in one central archive. Volker is now phasing into
retirement, in Germany employees are able to reduce their working
hours while still being guaranteed a percentage of their wage.

This meant that he was no longer able to host the archive on GMD
property. However, Stephen Granade (who has been doing all the
archive maintenance for the last year) and David Kinder have taken
over the Archive and it has a nice new home, the web home page of
which is:
http://ifarchive.org/index.html and it contains the following
information.

The main FTP site is:   ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/

The HTTP (web based) mirrors are as follows:

Mirror - Country
http://mirror.ifarchive.org - USA
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/ - USA
http://ftp.ndn.net/mirrors/if-archive/ - USA
http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/if-archive/ - Australia

The ftp addresses for the mirrors are as follows:

Mirror - Country
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.com/if-archive/ - USA
ftp://www.plover.net/if-archive/ - USA
ftp://ftp.guetech.org/if-archive/ - USA
ftp://mirror.holmoak.co.uk/if-archive/ - UK
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/ - Finland
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/if-archive - Australia


From my experience, the main FTP site is quite fast; I noticed
no real speed increase with the UK site. I was of course
connecting from the UK.
















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