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Editorial .....................................................................................................4
Hot Off The Press
[ADRIFT On Vista; One Room Competition; A Place In The Interactive
History Books; Reviews Exchange Issue 9; Summer Comp Results; The Hourglass Comp;
Drifter Birthdays; Recent ADRIFT Releases]
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ADRIFT Forum Digest..............................................................................11
Musings On The IFComp by David Whyld .................................................13
101 Things You Love & Hate About IF ...................................................16
And Then There Were (100)0 by David Whyld..........................................21
View From A(n Almost) Newbie by AndrewF ...........................................25
Drifters’ Think About ...............................................................................27
In The Hot Seat
[Interview with Robert Street]
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In Progress:
“Divine Harbour” by C. Henshaw .........................................................35
“Scarlet” by David Whyld ....................................................................37
Dead But Not Lovin’ It by David Whyld .....................................................39
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Reference.................................................................................................42
Word Search
[answers to issue 29]
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Contributions...........................................................................................46
Looking Ahead .........................................................................................47
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W
elcome to the Big 30!
Yes, issue thirty of the newsletter and the second with yours truly at the helm.
(“Yay, ma, made it! Second issue! Top of the world!”)
The last issue seemed to be a reasonable success and hoping this one will be the same. It’s a
little slimmer than the last issue (though the novelty hasn’t begun to wear off quite yet
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but I’m sure there a few things in here that might catch your fancy. Ever wondered what the
most popular and unpopular things in IF games are. Well, this issue we have 101 of them so
there ought to be a few things in there to include, or not as the case may be, in your first
game.
David Whyld
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(… being the latest news from the big wide world of interactive fiction…)
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As an experiment, I recently downloaded a beta of the new Microsoft version of
Windows, and installed ADRIFT on it. Aside from a few slowdown issues*, it ran
fine so any qualms about whether or not ADRIFT would work properly on Vista
have been put to rest. Although with Microsoft’s ever-sliding release schedule for
Vista, we might well be on ADRIFT 10 before it materialises…
* Of course, pretty much everything I did on Vista suffered slowdown issues to
some degree, so whether there are any actual slowdown issues with ADRIFT on
Vista or just
everything
on Vista is difficult to tell at this stage.
The ADRIFT Generator under
Vista…
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…and the Runner.
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The results of the One Room Competition have been announced at
http://www.avventuretestuali.com/orgc/orgc-2006-eng
There was a single ADRIFT entry out of the nine games, although as seven were in
Italian the competition was of limited interest to those of us (myself included) who
don’t speak the language.
The results in full:
1) Final Selection by Sam Gordon
2) Lo sforacchiato giallo by Veronica Auretta
3) Il diavolo a Venezia by Lorenzo Carnevale
4) Forma Mentis by Paolo Maroncelli
5) Galeotto fu il canotto (tre modi per buttare l'ancora) by Andrea
Rezzonico
6) It's Easter, Peeps! by Sara Brookside
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7) Lazy Jones e l'ultima crostata by Gabriele Lazzara and Carmelo Paterniti
8) De Reditu by Massimo Corso
9) Frankenstein III by Corvo di Odino
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