2026-07-23 16:34 UTC
Angelsoft/Mindscape published a series of text adventures written in Pascal -- Turbo Pascal 3.0 for PC, UCSD Pascal for the Apple ][. Several were licensed from popular books or films. Supposedly they were written with a proprietary authoring system called ASG, but there is scant info online about it.
https://retro365.blog/2019/06/10/bits-from-my-personal-collection-angelsoft-interactive-fiction/
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@sehugg@infosec.exchange 2026-07-24 22:58
Infocom's Z-machine was introduced to the world in the July 1980 Creative Computing article "How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine" by Marc Blank and Stu Galley. The term "interactive fiction" hadn't been coined yet, so they called the genre "CFS" (Computerized Fantasy Simulation). Despite basically inventing the form, they didn't make fetch happen. https://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm