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Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom

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Category:	Game Compilations Interactive Fiction
Perspective:	Text
Year released:	1996
Author:	Infocom
Publisher:	Activision
Engine:	Z-machine

Download InfocomMasterpieces.zip (87.61 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

Emulation
This game works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac

"Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom is a collection of 33 computer games from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom, and the top 6 winners of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition, released in 1996. It was available as a single cross-platform CD-ROM, which included PDFs of all the Infocom games' instructions, maps, and hint booklets.

Infocom was closed in 1989 by its then-parent company Activision. Still holding the copyright to nearly all the past Infocom titles, Activision bundled them together in this collection, following up the earlier Lost Treasures of Infocom series. The Infocom games included are:

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
Ballyhoo
Beyond Zork
Border Zone
Bureaucracy
Cutthroats
Deadline
Enchanter
Hollywood Hijinx
Infidel
Journey
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
The Lurking Horror
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Moonmist
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
Planetfall
Plundered Hearts
Seastalker
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
Sorcerer
Spellbreaker
Starcross
Stationfall
Suspect
Suspended
Trinity
Wishbringer
The Witness
Zork I
Zork II
Zork III
Zork Zero

The Interactive Fiction Competition winners included are:

A Change in the Weather
The Magic Toyshop
The Mind Electric
The One That Got Away
Toonesia
Uncle Zebulon's Will

The collection included all of the contents of the previous two Lost Treasures of Infocom collections except for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Clavell's Shogun. Unlike the Lost Treasures collections, though, Masterpieces included the adult game Leather Goddesses of Phobos." --Wikipedia.org

(Shogun and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are available separately on the Macintosh Garden.)

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Should run on almost anything. I haven't tried any OS earlier than 6 though.

You even don't need a Mac emulator to play these games, because 'Zoom' does the job for you, too.
For Zoom, please refer to its homepage at http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html

To get the games recognized by Zoom, please add the extension ".z5" (without quotes) to the game's application name.

Comments

by Attila - 2009, December 22 - 4:42pm

Merry Textmas!

by MacWise - 2009, August 7 - 7:12pm

The Infocom Documentation Project should have the manuals to all these games:

http://infodoc.plover.net/

Great upload by the way.