The Computer Lady is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2019 by Daniel Gunnell. A sequel game, The Fifth Continent, was published later the same year.
In this small very easy game, you play as a novice writer of interactive fiction. You've brought your old and broken Apple II computer downtown to The Computer Lady hoping they can fix it.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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Church Approach
> verbose. x me. i. x Apple.
> ne.
Picnic Bench
> x Only. take it.
> sw. n.
Entrance
> x sign.
Let's look around a bit first before doing what the sign suggests.
> w.
Conference Room
> x table. x leaflet.
> e. n.
Toilet
Nothing here but the door.
> s. e.
Main Office
> x beam. x Rocomputer.
> s.
Alison's Writing Room
Nothing's actually implemented here.
> n.
Main Office
> drop Apple.
Your computer doesn't get repaired, but nevertheless...
*** You have won ***
Mentioned:
Note:
Read the leaflet in the Conference Room for the credits:
WELCOME TO THE COMPUTER LADY!
The Computer Lady is a work of interactive fiction that was written in Inform 7 using playfic.com. If you have never in your life played a work of IF before, I recommend you play The Dreamhold by Mr Andrew Plotkin, (https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=3myqnrs64nbtwdaz) a wonderful tutorial that many newcomers play. I've tried to avoid coding really hard puzzles, partly because The Inform Recipe Book takes ages to read in one go and partly because I don't want you to quit halfway through. Remember what happened to your Apple II? I'll leave you to explore your surroundings now. Bye-bye.
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