An Interactive Fiction Archive Mirror

"You are in a large square room with tall ceilings. On the south wall is an enormous mirror which fills the entire wall. There are exits on the other three sides of the room." -- Zork 1

The IF-Archive Mirror at mirror.ifarchive.org is actually a random redirection to one of the HTTP mirrors listed below. Hopefully this will help balance our load.

Touch the mirror to take a random leap.

Other Mirrors

If you don't want randomness, you can select a mirror by hand. Here are the many sources by which you can access the IF Archive:

• USA: www.ifarchive.org (http) (ftp)
• USA: ifarchive.plover.net (http)
• USA: ifarchive.jmac.org (http)
• USA: ifarchive.flavorplex.com (http)
• USA: ifarchive.smallwhitehouse.org (http)
• USA: ifarchive.wurb.com (http)
• USA: www.ifarchive.info (http)
• Ireland: ifarchive.heanet.ie (http)
• Austria: ifarchive.giga.or.at (http)
• USA: www.ibiblio.org (http) (ftp)
• USA: ftp.guetech.org (ftp)
• Finland: ftp.funet.fi (ftp)

New to IF?

Unsure how to get started in the world of text adventures? Try these web sites:

• A Beginner's Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction: a step-by-step guide to downloading and playing the games. (By Fredrik Ramsberg)
• Brass Lantern Beginner Resources: a collection of articles for IF newcomers. (By Stephen Granade)
• Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: an indexed, searchable database of the games in the Archive, plus contributed reviews. (Maintained by Carl Muckenhoupt)

To Submit Files

Files may be submitted through a web form, or by FTP to the directory ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/incoming/ . See the IF Archive README.

Bibliography

The IF Archive is maintained by David Kinder and Stephen Granade, with technical assistance from Goob and Zarf.

Web hosting was kindly provided by St. Alphonso's.

This page last updated December 1, 2004.