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

February's episode brings the usual batch of news and reviews, but this time from a different location: a hotel room in Vancouver. I do my best to put together a show from my notes alone without internet access to lean on. I also mix some hotel recordings with at-home stuff from both before and after the trip, just to see if you can tell which is which.

In the Apple II news section, I talk about Juiced.GS's call for both new scriveners and new subscribers, as well as Device Side Data's pending release of a drive that will let you mount vintage computer floppies on modern Macs and PCs. I also watch a 1984 video of Woz walking through the Time Tunnel of the Apple Historical Collection. As for reviews,

I finally tell you about Black Magic, the action-adventure-RPG game by Peter Ward that's been kicking my butt for months. I also rip the shrinkwrap off another sealed vintage game, this time Undiscovered Galaxy from K-TEK Video Software (AKA K-TEL, the guys and gals behind Hooked on Classics and the Mini Pops).

Finally, I wrap up the first episode of 2007 with 5 predictions for the Apple II in the coming year.

Host: Carrington Vanston

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