Old-School Text Adventures Come to the iPhone
An iPhone is too expensive for my budget, but I'm still happy to see this, from Wired:
Open iPhone. Go to App Store. Download Frotz. The classic text adventures from Infocom made us all learn the shortest possible way to write responses, and this brevity of input seems perfectly suited for iPhone use.
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Cool. Infocom adventures were the best :)