infovore + infocom   4

The Monk's Brew: Embracing My Inner Nerd
"I thought it was a parking ticket, and was annoyed. But up close, I saw it was just an empty envelope someone put there..." I'll let you click through for the punchline. Delightful, nontheless.
xyzzy  geek  humour  if  textadventure  infocom  licenceplate  joke 
august 2008 by infovore
Frotz Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade
A Z-Code interpreter for the iPhone. Fantastic. If you have an iPhone: get this, and get Spider And Web. My work here is done.
software  ipod  iphone  infocom  zmachine  interactivefiction  games  narrative 
august 2008 by infovore
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org
Linked a thousand times over, but some great stuff in the main body. Alas, a shame to see the intertards lay into a very fair Michael Bywater, who at least showed up to the comments.
infocom  douglasadams  hitchihikersguide  textadventure  interactivefiction  waxy  andybaio  scoop 
april 2008 by infovore
Z-list - Vox
Simon Wistow with a sensible, insightful post - starting from Andy Baio's remarkable discovery of Milliways - on how the web (and bloggers) need to grow up, and how telling smart people "you don't get the web" isn't actually an answer at all. Bravo.
journalism  blogging  waxy  infocom  simonwistow  publishing  writing 
april 2008 by infovore

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