I ran across a Riven 5-CD disk set while I was cleaning out a desk today. Myst was such a cool and revolutionary game when it first came out, but I think Riven was even better. It’s hard to describe the genre Myst and Riven reside in, kind of a cross between adventure, fantasy, and [...]
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A History of Copy Protection
This nice article brought back memories of old-school copy protection, such as “enter last word of second to last sentence on page 72 of game manual” or intentional bad sectors on commercial 5.25 inch floppies in an attempt to thwart copying on the 1541.
Infocom
I was cleaning up an old hard drive yesterday and ran across a pile of Infocom data files from their popular text adventures. They probably came from an old compilation I picked up years ago called The Lost Treasures of Infocom. I absolutely loved playing these games on my Commodore 64.
Infocom’s games ran on a [...]
