ADVENTURE 

                            WRITING LANGUAGES

Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.
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FAQs:
Nathan Torkington:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/games/adventure-systems
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/games.adventure-systems.html

Christina Schulman:
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/macintosh/games-faq
http://math-www.uio.no/faq/macintosh/games-faq.html

                                           AdvSys

VERSION - UPDATE:  - (01-05-86)

README:
"ADVSYS is a special purpose programming language that was specifically designed to be used to write computer text adventure games.  It includes a facility for defining the kinds of objects that are common in adventures."
 
AUTHOR: 
David Betz
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1986, by David Betz

TYPE:
Freeware

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/advsys/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/advsys/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/advsys/
 
                                           AGT

VERSION - UPDATE: 1.2 (10-05-89)

README:
"The Adventure Game Toolkit is designed to allow you to create and play your own text adventure games.  Once created, your adventure games can be shared with and enjoyed by others - even if they do not have a copy of the  Adventure Game Toolkit themselves."
 
AUTHORS: 
"The Adventure Game Toolkit (AGT) began life as a program by Mark Welch  called the Generic Adventure Game System (GAGS).  (...)  David Malmberg took GAGS and made a number of enhancements (...)"
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) Softworks, 43064 Via Moraga, Mission San Jose, California 94539

TYPE:
Shareware: US $20

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/agt/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/agt/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/agt/

                                           ALAN

VERSION - UPDATE: 2.5.1 (12-15-93)

README:
"This archive contains the freely distributable parts of the Alan Adventure Language System. The system is a tool to make it very easy to create text adventures also known as interactive fiction.
The complete system consists of a compiler, 'alan', and an interpreter, 'arun'. The compiler is *not* included as it is not freely distributable."
 
AUTHOR(S):
thoni@softlab.se
gorfo@ida.liu.se
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) The ThoNi & GorFo Adventure Factories

TYPE:
Freeware: 
The Alan System is request-ware. The complete system is available without charge through electronic mail on request from
                         alan-request@softlab.se
Send a message with a single line like:

                           SEND <text>
for documentation, where <text> is one of TEXT or POSTSCRIPT for plain ascii or PostScript versions of the documentation, or

                         SEND <platform>
for a complete distribution including documentation, demos and executables for <platform>, where platform currently is one of:

AMIGA, SUN, PC, VMS, MAC, HP"

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/alan/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/alan/
 
                                              Drool

VERSION - UPDATE: 1.0 (1993)

README:
"This is the version of Drool that goes with my article in the October 1993 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal.  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get as much done as I had expected. This version will run the examples in the article, but there is much work left to do. There is no way to edit code from within the environment and there is no way to change values using the browser.  I expect to address these and other problems in future versions.

David Betz"
 
AUTHOR: 
David Betz
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) David Betz

TYPE:
Freeware

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/drool/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/drool/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/drool/

                                            Inform

FAQ:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/general-discussion/TADS-vs-Inform.FAQ

                                            1. Inform

VERSION - UPDATE: Release 5.5, Mac Interface v. 2.12 (07-18-95)
68k+ppc

README:
"Inform, written by Graham Nelson, is a compiler that turns files of text written in the Inform language into Infocom format story files. These story files (also known as z code) are playable on a wide variety of computers using freely available interpreters.  The syntax for Inform is fully documented in the Inform Designer's Manual, as are the various features of the Inform compiler.  The Designer's Manual, as well as the Inform Library, several coding examples and z-code interpreters for a number of machines are all available by anonymous ftp from ftp.gmd.de"
 
AUTHORS: 
Graham Nelson
mac interface:
Robert A. Pelak 
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1993-1995  Graham Nelson & Robert A. Pelak.

TYPE:
Freeware

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform/executables/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/executables/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/executables/
 
                                            2. Inform (MPW)

VERSION - UPDATE: 5.4 (10-04-94)

README:
"Inform was built with 32-bit everything under MPW 3.3, with the MPW 3.2 C compiler. (...)
To install Inform, just drop it into your MPW:Tools folder.  Library files should be in the same folder as your source; set the working directory to that folder when you build."
 
AUTHORS:
Graham Nelson
mac port:
R. Jones 
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) Graham Nelson

TYPE:
Freeware

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/inform/executables/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/executables/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/executables/

                                                    TADS

VERSION - UPDATE: 2.2 (10-30-94)

README:
"TADS: The Text Adventure Development System.  Everything you need to write your own professional-quality text adventure games.  TADS is a compiler for a high-level object-oriented language, plus a run-time system that gives your games a sophisticated player command parser."
 
AUTHOR:
Michael J. Roberts 
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1990 -1994 by Michael J. Roberts

TYPE:
Shareware: US $40

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/tads/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/programming/tads/