Downloading the Competition Games

The games for the 2000 competition can be found at the following locations.

• http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2000/
• http://www.wurb.com/if/competition00
• ftp://www.plover.net/ifarchive/games/competition00/
• http://www.ifarchive.org/comp00/

You have several choices of files to download.

• For Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME, there are three files which contain everything you need. IFComp2000.exe contains all of the games, barring one file. WinInterpreters.exe has all of the interpreters, which are the programs you'll need to run the games. WinExtras.zip has the one file that is missing from IFComp2000.exe.
• For the Mac, C00MacGames.sea.bin contains all of the games, CRsc00Mac.sea.bin has the multimedia files, and C00MacInterps.sea.bin has the interpreters you'll need to play the games.
• For everyone else, comp00.zip has the games and c00rsc.zip has the multimedia files.

Achtung! The file comp00.z5 is bad in some of the archives out there. To test if your version of comp00.z5 is broken, run it and push the big red button in the game. If you get an error, you'll need to find a fixed version comp00.z5. Hopefully the archive where you downloaded the games will have one for you.

If you download one of the packages which has no interpreters, you will need to get the interpreters yourself. You will need a TADS interpreter, an Inform/z-machine interpreter, a Hugo interpreter, an AGT interpreter, and (if you're running Windows) the ADRIFT interpreter. I have a guide to getting the interpreters for Windows and Linux. For Macintosh, I recommend the following interpreters:

• HyperTADS 1.2.4
• Either MaxZip 1.7.7 or Zip Infinity 1.4.0
• Hugo 2.5.1
• AGiliTy 0.8.9

For BeOS, try the following:

• Hugo
• Frotz

This year's organizer is Stephen Granade.