#infocom — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #infocom, aggregated by home.social.
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Happy towel day! 👍
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Happy towel day! 👍
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Happy towel day! 👍
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Happy towel day! 👍
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Happy towel day! 👍
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« L'écoconception numérique c'est comme un chirurgien qui a la super nouvelle idée de se laver les mains avant d'opérer : ça ne devrait pas être d'une grande originalité mais l'hygiène de base de nos pratiques professionnelles » @arnaudlevy lors d'une passionnante table-ronde à la Journée d'étude du projet de recherche Ecoweb à Rennes.
Un projet de recherche coordonné par @vincent_ca et Bénédicte Toullec.
#ecoconception #sobrietenumerique #numeriqueresponsable #sobriete #esr #infocom
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« L'écoconception numérique c'est comme un chirurgien qui a la super nouvelle idée de se laver les mains avant d'opérer : ça ne devrait pas être d'une grande originalité mais l'hygiène de base de nos pratiques professionnelles » @arnaudlevy lors d'une passionnante table-ronde à la Journée d'étude du projet de recherche Ecoweb à Rennes.
Un projet de recherche coordonné par @vincent_ca et Bénédicte Toullec.
#ecoconception #sobrietenumerique #numeriqueresponsable #sobriete #esr #infocom
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« L'écoconception numérique c'est comme un chirurgien qui a la super nouvelle idée de se laver les mains avant d'opérer : ça ne devrait pas être d'une grande originalité mais l'hygiène de base de nos pratiques professionnelles » @arnaudlevy lors d'une passionnante table-ronde à la Journée d'étude du projet de recherche Ecoweb à Rennes.
Un projet de recherche coordonné par @vincent_ca et Bénédicte Toullec.
#ecoconception #sobrietenumerique #numeriqueresponsable #sobriete #esr #infocom
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QuNAP group at the end of the day. A few people are missing, but this is a good chunk of attendees. #IEEE #INFOCOM #INFOCOM2026
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Great episode of The Retro Adventurers with @zarfeblong about Infidel (and the Smirking Horror):
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-retro-adventurers/id1739948119?i=1000767499433
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And after a long hiatus: another stint with #thelurkinghorror!
So we go back to the lab and get into the pentagram. However, once the professor is in his pentagram, we cut the line on ours and step outside.
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@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.
#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork
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@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.
#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork
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@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.
#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork
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@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.
#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork
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@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.
#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork
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Time to figure out those ZIL grammar flags that Steve Meretzky said were confusing! (Back in 1989.)
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Here is the list so far, for those interested: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=zifwosg0&dl=0
Currently the post-2000 entries are just a few I didn't want to forget. I'm planning to add a bunch more - including the cream of Wadjet Eye's output.
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Here is the list so far, for those interested: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=zifwosg0&dl=0
Currently the post-2000 entries are just a few I didn't want to forget. I'm planning to add a bunch more - including the cream of Wadjet Eye's output.
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Here is the list so far, for those interested: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=zifwosg0&dl=0
Currently the post-2000 entries are just a few I didn't want to forget. I'm planning to add a bunch more - including the cream of Wadjet Eye's output.
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I am assembling myself a "syllabus" of the best classic adventure games to play through in chronological order. The 90s seems straight forward: there are widely praised favourites (e.g. Secret of Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Gabriel Knight).
But what of the 80s? Do any of those adventure games (and their text predecessors) hold up? Especially if I'm not a child with time to bang my head against the same puzzles for weeks and weeks?
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Visible Zork 3 is now available!
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
Status of the Visible Zorker project: This is fun! I want to keep going. More notes and previews of upcoming games:
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/visible-zork-3
ObNote: The Visible Zorker is a Patreon-supported project. I just released Starcross for Patreon supporters.
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Visible Zork 3 is now available!
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
Status of the Visible Zorker project: This is fun! I want to keep going. More notes and previews of upcoming games:
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/visible-zork-3
ObNote: The Visible Zorker is a Patreon-supported project. I just released Starcross for Patreon supporters.
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Visible Zork 3 is now available!
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
Status of the Visible Zorker project: This is fun! I want to keep going. More notes and previews of upcoming games:
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/visible-zork-3
ObNote: The Visible Zorker is a Patreon-supported project. I just released Starcross for Patreon supporters.
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Visible Zork 3 is now available!
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
Status of the Visible Zorker project: This is fun! I want to keep going. More notes and previews of upcoming games:
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/visible-zork-3
ObNote: The Visible Zorker is a Patreon-supported project. I just released Starcross for Patreon supporters.
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Visible Zork 3 is now available!
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
Status of the Visible Zorker project: This is fun! I want to keep going. More notes and previews of upcoming games:
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/visible-zork-3
ObNote: The Visible Zorker is a Patreon-supported project. I just released Starcross for Patreon supporters.
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Fellow #infocom text adventure fans, the newest #Vezza #zmachine #interpreter is now available for the #Amstrad #NC200 running CPMish. Using the glorious built in LCD display at 79x18 characters, it was a lot of fun to build. Special mention to Matthew Logue for not only requesting the NC200 version and providing platform information, but also for sending me a huge amount of photos from real hardware so I could debug, and doing a complete play though of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to prove it worked.
#retrogaming #retrogaming -
Fellow #infocom text adventure fans, the newest #Vezza #zmachine #interpreter is now available for the #Amstrad #NC200 running CPMish. Using the glorious built in LCD display at 79x18 characters, it was a lot of fun to build. Special mention to Matthew Logue for not only requesting the NC200 version and providing platform information, but also for sending me a huge amount of photos from real hardware so I could debug, and doing a complete play though of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to prove it worked.
#retrogaming #retrogaming -
Fellow #infocom text adventure fans, the newest #Vezza #zmachine #interpreter is now available for the #Amstrad #NC200 running CPMish. Using the glorious built in LCD display at 79x18 characters, it was a lot of fun to build. Special mention to Matthew Logue for not only requesting the NC200 version and providing platform information, but also for sending me a huge amount of photos from real hardware so I could debug, and doing a complete play though of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to prove it worked.
#retrogaming #retrogaming -
Fellow #infocom text adventure fans, the newest #Vezza #zmachine #interpreter is now available for the #Amstrad #NC200 running CPMish. Using the glorious built in LCD display at 79x18 characters, it was a lot of fun to build. Special mention to Matthew Logue for not only requesting the NC200 version and providing platform information, but also for sending me a huge amount of photos from real hardware so I could debug, and doing a complete play though of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to prove it worked.
#retrogaming #retrogaming -
Fellow #infocom text adventure fans, the newest #Vezza #zmachine #interpreter is now available for the #Amstrad #NC200 running CPMish. Using the glorious built in LCD display at 79x18 characters, it was a lot of fun to build. Special mention to Matthew Logue for not only requesting the NC200 version and providing platform information, but also for sending me a huge amount of photos from real hardware so I could debug, and doing a complete play though of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to prove it worked.
#retrogaming #retrogaming -
Blogged about some of the complications in supporting .v5 Z-machine games in my elm Z-machine.
https://whitebeard.blog/posts/ask-the-vm-where-is-the-player/
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a long, long time ago one of the only places you could find MS-DOS abandonware was on Home of the Underdogs. every week I would crawl through its RPG and Adventure sections looking for the next underrated gem I had never heard of. among their “Top Dogs” were two infocom games: Circuit’s Edge and Mines of Titan.
although infocom became synonymous with text adventures/interactive fiction, it was also a publisher of graphical RPGs designed by westwood associates. these were fascinating games - a blend of dungeon crawling, text adventure, and NPC dialogues.
Circuit’s Edge is unique insofar as it is set in a futuristic middle east. the world is based on George Alec Effinger’s When Gravity Fails series, a cyberpunk setting with cybernetic implants, islam, and money. Effinger himself wrote all of the ingame text.
decades later I was finally able to buy physical copies. i always liked the cover art for circuit’s edge, and that they used artist Jean-Francois Podevin’s pre-vis sketch for the manual cover.
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Pour les enseignants, la lecture de "Histoire de l'information" est à prolonger par "Le Numérique-monde" de Pascal Robert.
Une fois les bases historiques acquises grâce au travail colossal de vulgarisation de Chris Haughton, l'analyse historique et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle devient limpide.
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Pour les enseignants, la lecture de "Histoire de l'information" est à prolonger par "Le Numérique-monde" de Pascal Robert.
Une fois les bases historiques acquises grâce au travail colossal de vulgarisation de Chris Haughton, l'analyse historique et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle devient limpide.
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Pour les enseignants, la lecture de "Histoire de l'information" est à prolonger par "Le Numérique-monde" de Pascal Robert.
Une fois les bases historiques acquises grâce au travail colossal de vulgarisation de Chris Haughton, l'analyse historique et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle devient limpide.
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Pour les enseignants, la lecture de "Histoire de l'information" est à prolonger par "Le Numérique-monde" de Pascal Robert.
Une fois les bases historiques acquises grâce au travail colossal de vulgarisation de Chris Haughton, l'analyse historique et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle devient limpide.
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Pour les enseignants, la lecture de "Histoire de l'information" est à prolonger par "Le Numérique-monde" de Pascal Robert.
Une fois les bases historiques acquises grâce au travail colossal de vulgarisation de Chris Haughton, l'analyse historique et géopolitique de la logistique informationnelle devient limpide.
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C64 Ultimate File Viewer: Put Manuals and InvisiClues Beside Your Games
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #RetroComputing #Retrogaming #TextAdventure #Infocom #Wasteland #C64Tips #Preservation #Chiptune
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-file-viewer-put-manuals-and-invisiclues-beside-your-games/?fsp_sid=2501 -
C64 Ultimate File Viewer: Put Manuals and InvisiClues Beside Your Games
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #RetroComputing #Retrogaming #TextAdventure #Infocom #Wasteland #C64Tips #Preservation #Chiptune
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-file-viewer-put-manuals-and-invisiclues-beside-your-games/?fsp_sid=2501 -
C64 Ultimate File Viewer: Put Manuals and InvisiClues Beside Your Games
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #RetroComputing #Retrogaming #TextAdventure #Infocom #Wasteland #C64Tips #Preservation #Chiptune
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-file-viewer-put-manuals-and-invisiclues-beside-your-games/?fsp_sid=2501 -
C64 Ultimate File Viewer: Put Manuals and InvisiClues Beside Your Games
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #RetroComputing #Retrogaming #TextAdventure #Infocom #Wasteland #C64Tips #Preservation #Chiptune
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-file-viewer-put-manuals-and-invisiclues-beside-your-games/?fsp_sid=2501 -
C64 Ultimate File Viewer: Put Manuals and InvisiClues Beside Your Games
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #RetroComputing #Retrogaming #TextAdventure #Infocom #Wasteland #C64Tips #Preservation #Chiptune
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-file-viewer-put-manuals-and-invisiclues-beside-your-games/?fsp_sid=2501 -
The sounds of Infocom, basically.
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after some extensive research, i have learned that there was never a Myst or Riven textual MUD/MUSH/MOO and i am fascinated by the prospect of it.
completely textual, player-built ages, puzzle-thick, and role-play oriented.
imagining it to be like playing Planetfall with friends
