# Muckabout

My first and so far only attempt at interactive fiction, or what in 1987 I called “text adventure games”. I wrote it using Interactive Software Ltd's _Adventure Creator_ on an Acorn Electron. In July 2006 I dusted off the tape it was on, sampled it into my laptop, converted it back into data, found a copy of AC (mine was stolen in 1988), and used a BBC emulator to run it so I could manually extract the data. I then spent four days converting into [Inform 6](http://inform-fiction.org/introduction/index.html). Inform is great because games written for it can [run on almost any computer](http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/interpreters.html). A huge variety of other interactive fiction can be found at the [Interactive Fiction Archive](http://www.ifarchive.org/).

I'm delighted to receive comments, particularly bug reports, but also criticism and suggestions, both about the adventure and about my use of Inform.

[Play online](http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//rrt.sc3d.org/Software/Muckabout/muckabout.z5)

Download release 1:

   * Game (run this in your Z-code interpreter): $webfile{muckabout.z5,Z-code}
   * Source code: $webfile{muckabout.inf,Inform 6}