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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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    Dennis G. Jerz
    16 years ago

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