Eaten By A Grue: Infocom, Text Adventures, and Interactive Fiction

I jealously look on as everyone else prepares to attend fun events like KansasFest and the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, while at the same time the Big 8 Management Board prepares to pull the plug on two Apple II newsgroups. Apple emulation goes walkabout with the announcement of AppleIIGo for MIDP 2.0 compatible mobile phones, and Apple hackers go thinkabout with the announcement of the A.P.P.L.E 2006 Programming Contest. In the reviews, the fun first stage of Escape! is compared to the unplayable later stages, and the search is on for an accelerator button in the arcade port of Head On. This month's big find, though, is Micro Adventure #1: Space Attack, a terrific introduction to computer programming in the form of young adult novel.

Host: Carrington Vanston

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