OPEN MAILBOX October 2026

It's our 50th episode! Jason, Nick, and Tim make it a working holiday with news on the peak of competition season (Ectocomp! Introcomp! Iron ChIF! And of course IFComp!), news on developments for Z-Machine developers and Å-Machine players, five new Fairlight releases on C64, and, yes, reverb Ramsberg.

Iron ChIF Adventuron wrapup: https://intfiction.org/t/iron-chif-season-one-episode-3-flacrabbit-vs-dee-cooke-using-adventuron/81129/138

Iron ChIF TADS sought: https://intfiction.org/t/iron-chef-looking-for-tads-challengers/75758/36

Introcomp: https://introcomp.org/

ECTOCOMP 2026: https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2026

ReZet80: https://rezet80.blogspot.com/p/rezet80-sentinel.html

Tiny Text Adventure Engine: https://rezet80.blogspot.com/2026/02/tiny-text-adventure-engine.html

Haunted House: https://rezet80.blogspot.com/2023/09/haunted-house.html

Adventure Family Tree: https://www.ifwiki.org/Adventure_Family_Tree

Adventure Family Tree discussion: https://intfiction.org/t/adventure-family-tree-using-ifwiki-to-record-and-display-information/77211/2

ZigZag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software)

Lantern: https://textadventure.net

Swiss Family Robinson/FLT: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=263890

FairLight TV 159 (Synapse cracks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2x1xYSHCFQ

The Demon Jar: https://qladventures.itch.io/the-demon-jar

AGI-64/AGI-ANTIC: https://meanhamster.com/games/agi-64

Vanyar: https://johanberntsson.itch.io/vanyar

I'm Still a Cannibal For the FBI: https://cannibalforthef.bi/

Dialog interpreter for Apple II: https://intfiction.org/t/help-dialog-choose-a-commodore-64-color-palette/81746/9

SCUMMVM MADS support: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260826/

Fish on Apple platforms?!: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/fish

Magnetic Scrolls' Upon Westminster Bridge: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/upon-westminster-bridge/

DAAD tutorials: https://markhardisty.wordpress.com/

The Greedy Dwarf: https://mjhardisty.itch.io/the-greedy-dwarf/devlog/1674561/the-greedy-dwarf-now-available

Adjunct of Computing #1: https://youtu.be/tojYY6hdnNY

Plague On the Discovery testers wanted: https://intfiction.org/t/testers-needed-for-new-bdb-project-s-game-plague-on-the-discovery-morgan-tyler-series-3/82097

Dracula Spectrum Next: https://giadacu.itch.io/dracula-english-zx-spectrum-next-illustrated-edition

A Spy's Heist: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=au4s1nyuqonq10fw

PARANOID blog: https://play-paranoid.online/blog/best-mystery-text-adventure-games

Legends: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=3xgiq6kxz60zvff2

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