OPEN MAILBOX July 2026

Classic text adventure news so late-breaking that we have to interrupt our news to bring you new news about that news! Presented again this month by Retro Adventurers Nick, Tim, and Jason.

University of Winchester alumnus

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/26175575.university-winchester-alumnus-won-award-game/

ABP: Help preserve Amstrad Infocom interpreter source code!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CwYXQ6FiV/

Oo-Topos Commodore 64 copy protection

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=89439

SchoolAdventure, adapted to Inform

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=6duybkh9bo1oq5s4 

NAIL: Not An Inform Library

https://github.com/fredrikr/nail

Iron ChIF ZIL contest entries

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=v2b896mwtwf5mhwt

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=b3vcdy1s1ukd5xcw

PunyInform 6.7

https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases/tag/v6_7

Puny BuildTools

https://github.com/ByteProject/Puny-BuildTools#build-targets

Eclipse (Bonaventura Di Bello Project)

https://bdb-project.itch.io/eclipse

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=03enp9z2oszblv5h

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2026 Results

https://itch.io/jam/talp2026/results

IntroComp

https://introcomp.org/

Strange Stories RPG

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/ed994b09-71cf-4128-88bc-e45f89cf7d1b/landing

Zork Zero for Mac VoiceOver users

https://intfiction.org/t/looking-for-mac-voiceover-users-to-test-zork-zero-in-spatterlight/80791

Mysterious eyeglasses-cleaning game (?!)

https://bsky.app/profile/retroadventurers.bsky.social/post/3mnryqxe5k22e

Interactive Fiction Discord Server (visit #retro-adventurers-podcast !)

https://discord.com/invite/8jrbVptACc