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On Linux (not sure if Mac is similar or not) I just use Gargoyle as one commenter pointed out below. It works amazingly well and can run all kinds of IF formats.

I'd love to find a group of people to play IF with some day as a group activity. I was too young during its popular days. Now it is too niche for me to convince any friends or co-workers to give it a go.

Curses is super long. If you want something just as beautiful (perhaps more so), but shorter, try anything from Emily Short. She has a few that take anywhere from 15 minutes to a day to play through (Galatea, Alabaster, Bronze...etc). I never finished City of Secrets, but really loved the world.

A completely separate author wrote Blue Lacuna which I'm about 1/2 through.

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> I'd love to find a group of people to play IF with some day as a group activity. I was too young during its popular days. Now it is too niche for me to convince any friends or co-workers to give it a go.

I've been joking that my Twitch channel is an exercise in finding extremes that likely no one would actually watch. It mostly only has stuff streamed to it, for instance, because Sea of Thieves gives some small in-game rewards for streaming, and I like finding a lot of the less exciting parts of SoT to stream (including jokes about some of it being Pirate ASMArrr for how quiet and soft I play it sometimes).

Anyway, long rambling prologue to: now I really want to try Twitch streaming some text adventures. This sounds like a very appropriate use of the wonders of modern game video streaming technology, both sarcastically in the sense of my above finding silly things to stream for streaming's sake, and not at all facetiously in that if it did somehow attract an audience magically or mysteriously that sounds like an amazing way to play such games.

So there are still people who make Commodore and ZxSpectrum games (apparently commercially too).

I found this one recently (https://thestoryfix.blog/2019/02/03/interview-stefan-vogt-ta...)

and since I couldn't play it (don't own the hardware or want to fool with an editor) I watched someone play the entire game on YouTube one night when my wife was out of town. It was a blast.

I've only looked at twitch once before and it was kinda fun. Do you have a username there or something I can watch for?

Emily Short https://emshort.blog/my-work/

> Curses is super long.

It's also a very "old school" interactive fiction game design -- heavily item-driven puzzles, some of which can be made unsolveable by mistake, and at least one maze. Even the author has retrospectively described it as being "by any reasonable standard too hard".

> Emily Short

... who, incidentally, is married to Graham Nelson.

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