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On last reboost, the iOS app version of Lost Treasures of Infocom:

https://archive.org/details/lost-treasures-of-infocom-ios

The game files are all the usual versions, as far as I know. (I'll check in detail, but they should match the contents of https://archive.org/details/InfocomClassicTextAdventureMasterpieces1996JewelCaseArt .)

The nice part here is the game feelies, maps, and hint files. These are *also* derived from the 1996 CD but may have been updated or reformatted.

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Infocom Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces 1996 Jewel Case Art : Infocom : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces1996InfocomIncludes:• Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur                              •...
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Matt Campbell
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This is tangential, but what disappointed me about the Lost Treasures of Infocom when I got it from the App Store several years ago was that it was inaccessible with VoiceOver, or at least had an inaccessible intro screen. I wonder if the Infocom classics are currently being sold in an accessible package for any platform.
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Andrew Plotkin
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@matt I was disappointed about that too.

I think the only legit sale points now are GOG and Steam. Both have the 1989 "Zork Anthology" package, Windows only. I assume there's a bunch of DOS emulation going on, and I don't know how Windows screen readers work with that.
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Matt Campbell
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I assume I can buy the Zork Anthology from GOG, install it, then run the Z-machine files in my choice of interpreter.
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Andrew Plotkin
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@matt Oh, definitely. It's all the same game files.

(Except that Zork Zero is v6 and not all interpreters deal with it.)
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Jayson Smith
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@matt Is anyone actually still marketing the Infocom games? I figured any such market might dry up once the ZIL sources were released, seeing as how we *do* have a working reimplementation of a ZIL compiler.
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Andrew Plotkin
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@jaybird110127 Activision has the "Zork Anthology" up on GOG and Steam. That's been true for quite a while now.

The existence of the ZIL sources is really not going to affect that at all. It's easy to *download* the Infocom game files. That was true long before the ZIL sources came out. Anybody who wants to play the games for free can do that.
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Matt Campbell
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@jaybird110127 Is the Zork Anthology as limited as the description on GOG suggests? That is, is it limited to just the Zork series and Planetfall? IMO that subset doesn't include most of the more interesting Infocom titles.
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Andrew Plotkin
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(IF fans all know this, but maybe not everybody else following this thread:)

You can go to the above archive.org link, or https://archive.org/details/InfocomClassicTextAdventureMasterpieces1996JewelCaseArt , and pull the Infocom game files out of the package.

Most of them can then be played with an open-source interpreter like https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases or https://github.com/garglk/garglk/releases .

(The later graphical games like Zork Zero are trickier; they require a different interpreter. Try WinFrotz.)

Infocom Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces 1996 Jewel Case Art : Infocom : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces1996InfocomIncludes:• Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur                              •...
Internet Archive
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Andrew Plotkin
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Also, https://ifdb.org has links to the game files in web-playable form.

The Interactive Fiction Database - IF and Text Adventures

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, reviews, recommendations, and more.
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Andrew Plotkin
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Finally, I have a page https://eblong.com/infocom/ which links to every known version of these game files. Not just the ones that appeared in the "final" Activision compendiums!

Also the source code directories (which have been available on github since 2019).

This page includes plenty of in-development and beta versions, so watch out for bugs.

The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

eblong.com
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Andrew Plotkin
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Finally finally: I know Activision's possible acquisition is back in the news.

Hey, if you're a Microsoft IP lawyer and you're about to acquire a big pile of Infocom rights that are doing nothing but selling a few copies a month on Steam/GOG...

Wouldn't it be a great gesture to transfer those rights to a legit non-profit which is devoted to preserving IF history? Then we could stop waffling about who's allowed to do what.

I merely mention the idea. :phone-gesture: Call me, pal.
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Matt Campbell
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I'd even be happy with selling the whole catalog on GOG. Hell, sell each story as a separate title and pay the original imps some kind of royalty. Then again, did the imps get royalties even in the 80s?
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Andrew Plotkin
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@matt They did not. (This comes out in the Get Lamp documentary, I forgot who says it.) They were all on salary. The games were company property from the start.
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