- Adventure Gamers
Articles, news, reminiscing, and user forums about adventure games on all platforms, past & present.
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- FEM IRL - Looking back on 20 years in the industry
Blog entry by former Origin employee Sheri Graner Ray celebrating her 20th anniversary in the game industry, talking about some of her experiences at Origin, working on The Black Gate & Serpent Isle, and unpublished project Arthurian Legends (the cancellation of which was the "death knell for Origin" in her eyes).
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- FEM IRL - Looking Back On 20 Years, part 3
Sheri Ray Graner on the mass layoffs at Origin 4 years after the EA buyout, working at American Laser Games & Her Interactive
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- FEM IRL - Looking back on 20 years, part two - The Lost Vale
Blog entry by former Origin employee Sheri (the mouse) Graner Ray, all about the unpublished Ultima VIII add-on called The Lost Vale.
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- Magic word 'XYZZY'
Interesting article on "everything you ever wanted to know about the magic word XYZZY"
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- New Zork Times: The History of Zork
"This is the history of the most famous of all interactive fiction games: Zork. It was written by Tim Anderson and Stu Galley and appeared in three issues of The New Zork Times. "
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- Obsolete & Vintage Technology Website
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The museum of old, rare, vintage, antique computers
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- Retr0Bright
How to make a liquid out of household materials that will safely de-yellow aging plastic on computers, and the background story on why the plastic yellows & how a group of vintage computer collectors figured out the recipe.
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- Tezza's Vintage Computer Collection
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- The Colossal Cave Adventure page
Site all about the first interactive fiction (text adventure) game ever, Colossal Cave Adventure.
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- The Exodus Project
"Technical upgrades [of music & graphics] (released as patches) whilest preserving the original 1980's feel of the games." For DOS Ultimas II, III, and V.
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- The House of Games
"abandonware / free games / manuals / for many systems with reviews for each game!"
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- The Infocom Bugs List
"Although [Infocom] games were remarkably well constructed, the occasional programming glitch did creep in here and there, and this list is an attempt to show all known bugs in these 35 games (plus a couple of others)."
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- The Old Computer - Computer & Console BIOS ROMs
Collection of various hard to find Computer and Console BIOS rom images...useful for starting up an emulator that requires a BIOS
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- The Syslinux Project's Wiki
"...lightweight bootloaders for MS-DOS filesystems (sysLinux), network booting (pxeLinux), bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs (ISOLinux), and Linux filesystems (extLinux). The project also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems (such as DOS) from nontraditional media."
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- The Vintage Computer and Gaming Marketplace
Auction-based section of VCaG for users to sell/buy hardware.
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- Ultima Worlds - Bootstrike.Com
All about The Black Gate, Serpent Isle, Pagan, Underworlds 1 and 2, Ultima Music Remixes, plus general Ultima news and a blog.
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- Ultima: Aiera
Blog tracking the many Ultima game projects out there -- updates on newer engines, ports to more recent operating systems, and more.
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- Vintage Ad Browser
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- xu4 - Ultima IV
"XU4 is a remake of the computer game Ultima IV. The goal is to make it easy and convenient to play this classic on modern operating systems. ... XU4 is a cross-platform application thanks to SDL; it's available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux and more."
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