Appendix F. Canonical Story Files

Release number.Serial code

identifies particular story files: for example the first production copy of 'Enchanter' is 10.830810.

Paul David Doherty's investigations into Infocom's released games have resulted in the following list of all known story files compiled by Zilch, the Infocom compiler:

Note that the two samplers and the mini-Zork are in the public domain and may be downloaded from Internet archive sites. One form of 'Zork I' can be downloaded freely from Activision's Web pages promoting the Zork brand name.

The two problem children here are 'Seastalker', a submarine game which produces a sonar display across the top of the screen (and thus needs more sophisticated screen control features than the other Version 3 games) and 'The Lurking Horror', which uses sound effects (hence the "(s)" notation).

One form of 'Sherlock' uses sound effects. 'Border Zone' introduces timed input. 'Beyond Zork' features a character-graphics font. But the most interesting file is the German translation of 'Zork I', which was never commercially released, introducing an alphabet table to the format.

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