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The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) addresses key topics and issues related to computer communications, with emphasis on traffic management and protocols for both wired and wireless networks. [1] The first INFOCOM conference took place in the United States in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1982.
Infocom had sunk much of the money from games sales into Cornerstone; this, in addition to a slump in computer game sales, left the company in a very precarious financial position. By the time Infocom removed the copy-protection and reduced the price to less than $100, it was too late, and the market had moved on to other database solutions.
The Interactive Fiction Collections are a series of five video game collections containing 31 of Infocom's 35 canonical titles, with themes of Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, and Sci-Fi. [1] The Adventure Collection (1995; contains Border Zone, Cutthroats, Infidel, Plundered Hearts, and Trinity. Bonus titles are Planetfall and Zork III.)
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games.Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform.
Pages in category "Infocom games" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... This page was last edited on 16 December 2024, at 20:54 (UTC).
The Met Office has revealed the storm names for the 2024/25 season. The new storms list – first launched in 2015 – for each year generally runs from early September until late August the ...
In 1983, NAVA changed names to the International Communications Industries Association (ICIA). [8] In 2005, ICIA changed names again to InfoComm International (or, more commonly, InfoComm). [9] In 2017, InfoComm International again changed its name to the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, or AVIXA. [10]