Welcome to the WackyComp! This competition had two ALAN games, anonymous. If you can guess who they are by (by posting to rec.*.int-fiction), you win nothing! And the authors can win nothing too! --David Glasser Here's the readme for "Skipping Breakfast". Much of this goes for the other game, too. --- "Skipping Breakfast" is a text-only Interactive Fiction game. Copyright (1999) on this game is retained by the author. The game is contained in the two component files skipbrek.acd and skipbrek.dat. It was written using version 2.8 of the ALAN Interactive Fiction authoring system. You need an Alan 2.8 'runtime interpreter' program to play the game. Alan 2.8 interpreters are available for: Microsoft Windows and MSDOS PC's Apple Macintosh Linux Sun Solaris 1 & 2 If your computer system is included in that list, you can download the interpreter for your computer system, free of charge, from any of the following Internet sites: The Interactive Fiction Archive ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan/executables/ The Alan WWW home page http://www.pp.softlab.se/thomas.nilsson/alan/ USA 'Mirrors' of the IF Archive http://ifarchive.org/ http://bang.ml.org/if-index.html I hope you enjoy the game. Regards, Dunnin Haste. February 1999