Downloading the Competition Games

The games entered in the 2002 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition are available from the following locations:

• http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXcompetition2002.html
• http://mirror.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXcompetition2002.html

If you want to download all of the games, you have several choices of files to download.

• For Windows, there are two files which contain everything you need. IFComp2002.exe contains all of the games. WinInterpreters.exe has all of the interpreters, which are the programs you'll need to run the games.
• For the Mac, Comp02.sit contains all of the games which can be run natively under MacOS, and MacInterpreters.sit has all of the interpreters.
• For everyone else, Comp02.zip contains all of the games.

If you'd prefer to download individual games, you'll need to know what system the games were written using. You can find that out from the list of games. Then follow one of the links above and go into the directory corresponding to the appropriate game system.

Most of the interpreters you will need are available from the IF Archive. You will need interpreters for TADS 2 and 3, z-code, Glulx, ALAN, and (if you're running Windows) ADRIFT and Quest. There is one game written in BASIC. Interpreters are provided for DOS and MacOS; under Linux, you can use the Linux port of Chipmunk Basic to play it.