Short: Modern text adventure Uploader: kinder teaching physics ox ac uk Type: game/role Architecture: m68k-amigaos Curses is a modern text adventure, written by Graham Nelson. It is an excellent example of the sort of games currently being written by a group of people based around the ftp site ftp.gmd.de and the Usenet groups rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction. The game was written using Inform, a specifically designed adventure game compiler which generates a machine-independent format game. This game can then be played using any suitable interpreter. The interpreter included here (Frotz) was written by Stefan Jokisch and ported to the Amiga by me, David Kinder. The full Frotz package can be found on Aminet in the game/role directory. To get started, try reading all the information available by typing in "help". The parser is very powerful (indirect objects, disambiguation, etc.) so you shouldn't have any "guess the verb" problems. If you like this, loads more games are available from the ftp site ftp.gmd.de in the directory /if-archive/games This and other interpreters can be found in /if-archive/infocom/interpreters and the Inform compiler (along with executables for the Amiga and many other machines) in /if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform David Kinder kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk david.kinder@physics.ox.ac.uk