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Curses

Author(s)	Graham Nelson
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	1993
Authoring system	Inform
Platform(s)	Z-code 5
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruel

How It Begins

While your family downstairs is preparing for a holiday trip to Paris, you are in your attic searching for that old tourist map that ought to be here somewhere. Let's face it - exploring your ancestral home sounds like a lot more fun than going to France.

Notable Features

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Versions

Release 7

Release 7 / Serial number 930428 (Compiled by Inform v549)
IFID: ZCODE-7-930428-0000
IFID links: IFDB
First public release. ("Release 7 is the earliest version to be posted to the interactive-fiction archive.")
Announced May 9, 1993, alongside original release of Inform.
Download curses-r7.z3 from the IF Archive.

Release 8

Release 8 / Serial number 930603 (Compiled by Inform v634)
IFID: ZCODE-8-930603-0000
IFID links: IFDB
Released alongside Inform 2.
"Release 8 is the second edition posted to the interactive-fiction archive. (Thirty-nine minor improvements have been made on release 7.)"
"much enhanced, slightly larger"
Download curses-r8.z3 from the IF Archive.

Release 9

Release 9 / Serial number 931111 (Compiled by Inform v784)
IFID: ZCODE-9-931111-914E
IFID links: IFDB
Released alongside Inform 3.
"Release 9 is the third public release of "Curses". [...] sixty-one more [minor improvements], together with several new areas, puzzles and alternate solutions, have been added"
"extended by about 20%"
Download curses-r9.z3 from the IF Archive.

Release 10

Release 10 / Serial number 940120 (Compiled by Inform v1171)
IFID: ZCODE-10-940120-BD9E
IFID links: IFDB
Released alongside Inform 4.
"Release 10 is the fourth public release of "Curses". [...] forty-four loose ends have been tied"
Download curses-r10.z3 from the IF Archive.

Release 12

Release 12 for Acorn User / Serial number 940604
Compiled by Inform v1258
IFID: ZCODE-12-940604-6035
IFID links: IFDB
Released alongside Inform 5.
"Release 12 is the fifth public release of "Curses", and the first "Advanced story file" [z5] version."
"Release 12 is a major extension, adding many new regions, puzzles and features to tax beginners and experts alike."
"This edition comes to you from the August 1994 edition of Acorn User magazine."
Download curses-r12.z5 from the IF Archive.

Release 14

Release 14 / Serial number 950522 / Inform v1501 Library 5/10
Library serial number 950505
IFID: ZCODE-14-950522-9E5C
IFID links: IFDB
"Release 14 is the sixth public release of "Curses"."
"For this release the entire source code has been "digitally remastered", so to speak: rewritten and tidied up into Inform 5 code which properly uses the Library. There are a few hundred minor improvements, but no new puzzles (though some of the old puzzles have new, alternative solutions)."
Download curses-r14.z5 from the IF Archive.

Release 16

Release 16 / Serial number 951024 / Inform v1600 Library 5/12
Library serial number 951024
IFID: ZCODE-16-951024-4DE6
IFID links: IFDB
The last release. "Release 16 is the eighth public release of "Curses"."
"Release 16 fixes a few minor bugs and one major one (which made the gothic key invisible). Nothing within it is new."
Download curses.z5 from the IF Archive.
Release notes: Download curses_rel16.txt from the IF Archive.

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