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Namekuseijin · 06-24-2011, 02:02 PM

I wonder what would be the market for playing old text-only games on a e-reader?

That said, most early interactive fiction is much too boring and full of non-sense mazes and complex puzzles to make you feel your money was well spent. I very much prefer what the amateur interactive fiction community has been producing for the past 20 years, many of them available to be played through a web browser through virtual machine interpreters written in javascript:

http://parchment.toolness.com/

It runs in my android, but don't know about e-readers with browsers. It certainly needs a speedy javascript implementation.

you can play almost anything by Andrew Plotkin, Emily Short, Graham Nelson, Adam Cadre and Jon Ingold without fear. Solid authors.

a good spot to know more:

http://ifdb.tads.org/

06-24-2011, 02:02 PM	#11
Namekuseijin affordable chipmunk Posts: 1,290 Karma: 9863855 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brazil Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite	I wonder what would be the market for playing old text-only games on a e-reader? That said, most early interactive fiction is much too boring and full of non-sense mazes and complex puzzles to make you feel your money was well spent. I very much prefer what the amateur interactive fiction community has been producing for the past 20 years, many of them available to be played through a web browser through virtual machine interpreters written in javascript: http://parchment.toolness.com/ It runs in my android, but don't know about e-readers with browsers. It certainly needs a speedy javascript implementation. you can play almost anything by Andrew Plotkin, Emily Short, Graham Nelson, Adam Cadre and Jon Ingold without fear. Solid authors. a good spot to know more: http://ifdb.tads.org/