April 18, 2008
The Infocom Disk - Andy Baio of Waxy just found the Golden Ticket of geek journalism.
From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. ... For obvious reasons, I can't share the whole Infocom Drive. But I have to share some of the best parts. It's just too good.
So let's start with the most notorious — Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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So I read this article and thought "great stuff, remember playing the heck out of that old Hitchhiker's text adventure on my Commodore 64 (I think?)" Then I saw a link somewhere that said "here's this page and oh by the way definitely read the comments." And Oh Shit!
Michael Bywater feels completely blindsided by the one-sided account in the emails and admonishes the author for not bothering to talk to the people involved in addition/instead of just dumping info on a blog. Other Infocom employees also get on and say "Yup, that's how it was" and "Hey, can I get a copy of that, I thought it was all lost in a disk crash".
Vitriol ahoy!
posted by natedogg at 07:24PM CST on April 19