An InfoDrawer Opens

[krpalmer]

Continuing to follow the Planet IF aggregator, I noticed a very interesting piece of news being passed along. The documentary "Get Lamp" had featured images of design documents for some of Infocom's interactive fiction, and I'd eventually sorted out they had come from the files of Steve Meretzky, who the Digital Antiquarian consistently describes as a prolific, well-adjusted, and good-humoured game designer. Now, scans of the files the documents were selected from (slightly redacted to remove names of game testers and the like) are available on the Internet Archive. I've only been able to look at some of them so far, and while they're more high-level design and correspondance than source code printouts that's quite interesting in itself. Some of the output from what I presume was Infocom's line printer is a little hard to read, but I've also noticed some "made on a Macintosh" documents from the early adopter Douglas Adams and a tester talking about how they'd received their new computer right around when they also got their test copy of "A Mind Forever Voyaging."