Losing Your Grip v5.0, a Journey in Five Fits is a piece of interactive fiction (aka a text adventure) written using TADS, the Text Adenture Development System, by Michael J. Roberts.

Freeware - with Source Code
System Requirements: OS/2 Warp 4.0 / eCS 1.0 or later

Remember the days of Infocom text-adventure games? Ever wonder, "Does anyone still make those games?"

Yes, they do.  _Losing Your Grip_ is a piece of interactive fiction (aka a text adventure) written using TADS, the Text Adventure Development System, by Michael J. Roberts.

If you have played text adventures before, you shouldn't have any problems with _Losing Your Grip_. It will understand commands like:

  look
  go west (can be abbreviated as "w")
  open drawer
  unlock door with key
  open it (would refer to the door above)
  pour liquid on umbrella
  type "foo" on keyboard

If you haven't played such games before, you would do well to read grip.doc for information.

Some shorthand commands that might be useful are:

  x - examine
  l - look
  i - inventory (list everything you are carrying)
  g - again (redo last command)
  z - wait (do nothing for one minute)
  n, w, s, e, nw, sw, se, ne, u, d - move in different directions

For more information, please type "about" while playing _Losing Your Grip_ or visit my web page at http://www.phy.duke.edu/~sgranade/lyg.html

Stephen
 

Developed By:
  Stephen Granade
   Physics Dept. Room 156
   Science Drive
   Duke University
   Durham, NC 27708-0305
   USA

sgranade@phy.duke.edu

TADS/2 is a derivative work based on the TADS source code. It was written by Stephen Granade (sgranade@phy.duke.edu).

TADS is copyright (c) 1992, 1996 Michael J. Roberts. All Rights Reserved.