VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Get Lamp - A documentary about adventures in text 2025-01-21

   tags: command-line, documentary, game/interactive-fiction, history

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2. Zork: The Great Inner Workings 2025-01-21

   tags: command-line, game/interactive-fiction, game/zork, history, parser, programming/c, programming/fortran, programming/go, programming/lisp

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   It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

   • Zork: The Great Underground Empire
   • Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.
   • The Visible Zorker
   • r/raldi - I spent my weekend hacking Zork
   • historicalsource/zork1
   • historicalsource/zork-fortran
   • MITDDC/zork
   • jeffnyman/zmachine
   • ZoBoRf/ZILCH-How-to
   • ajdnik/gozork
3. 50 Years of Text Games - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction 2023-07-22

   tags: artificial-intelligence, book, command-line, game/interactive-fiction, game/roguelike, graphics/2d, procedural-generation, text

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   • 50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre