This site is available as:
http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/
http://gallery.guetech.org/

Our motivation to expand this page depends to some extent on the feedback we're getting, so please sign the guestbook! (The guestbook apparently has problems with personal firewalls, so you may have to temporarily disable yours if you're using one).

Although the Gallery seems quite complete when it comes to grey boxes, there are still many scans missing. So if you own anything that is missing or incomplete and a scanner, please consider making a contribution to this page. Contact us, if you'd like to help.

Here's a little wish list of what we would like to add:

• The Status Line newsletters
• Folios: Seastalker, Enchanter, Sorcerer, Witness, Zork II, Zork III, Planetfall, Starcross
• Many missing InvisiClues

If you decide to send in scans, please take a look at the guidelines.

There's also a complete update history of these pages available.

• Infocom - The Master Storytellers
• The Border Zone, located in Germany, is an excellent place to buy the original Infocom games featured on this page, especially if you live in Europe.
• North American residents may prefer the well-known Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe to get their hands on the games.
• The Infocom Walkthrough Archives has the complete manuals (b&w) in Acrobat format
• PDD's Adventure Page
• Pete's Infocom Page
• Infocom reviews
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (java version)
• Infocom: The Master Storytellers (with an excellent article on the shortcomings of The Lost Treasures)
• The Rise and Fall of Infocom
• Back to the Roots one of the biggest legal Amiga Game Archives, carries many Infocom titles
• Encyclopedia Frobozzica
• The IF Archive
• The Adult Interactive Fiction Archive
• Inform for new writers
• The Magnetic Scrolls Gallery (new location)
• Adventureland
• The Infocom Fact Sheet by P.D. Doherty (with a comprehensive list of all Infocom releases)

A couple of years ago, two little collections known as The Lost Treasures of Infocom, parts 1 and 2 were published. Everything Infocom released in just two collections -- seemed too good to be true. And it was, in a number of ways. First, the collection was incomplete -- Leather Goddesses was not included. Second, no feelies -- no plastic palm, no AMFV pen, no Wishbringer stone, no microscopic space fleet...

Then there were the manuals. Instead of reproducing the original documentation in all its full-color glory, Activision opted for what looks like cheap Xerox copies, thrown together in reduced size as little paperback books... duh. That's why we're making this page. Infocom deserves better.

This used to be the paragraph where we asked people to not promote our site, for fear of being shut down by Activision. However, we have come to believe that Activision at least tolerates our work here, so we no longer feel a need for too much caution. So go ahead. Post it in newsgroups. Link to it.

Just to clarify: It is not the purpose of this project to damage Activision's Infocom franchise (there doesn't seem to be much left of it lately). We are only trying to do justice to the works of Infocom. The authors of this site have been consistently disappointed by the low-quality, black & white reproductions of the original Infocom documentation in collections such as the Lost Treasures or Masterpieces and have therefore decided it is time for a webpage with high-quality scans of those materials. This site does not carry anything that can be bought from Activision. All it contains is material that, in all likelihood, will never, ever be commercially available again.

Once a work of art has been abandoned, and is in danger of vanishing into oblivion, salvage rights apply. This site is a digital museum. Its exhibits are electronic replicas of some very specific and unique works of art that have touched many people's lifes in the 1980s. In digital years, that was centuries ago, much more than the 75 years it takes for copyrights to expire legally. That is why we feel that our site, while technically in violation, does not violate the spirit of copyright law. Copyright laws were never intended to be destructive, only protective. That is what this site is doing: protecting the works of Infocom, both from the ravages of time and from corporate indifference.

David and Julian