There are over 1,000 copies of Eastgate's most renowned "serious" hypertexts—e.g. Patchwork Girl and Afternoon—in libraries throughout the world. Most of them are in circulation (as opposed to Special Collections). But guess what? Unless you have Windows XP or a circa 2005 Mac, you can't read them.
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Of course, lots of library copies were purchased 20 or 30 years ago. Things wear out.
I do have win98 running in dosbos-x too though
I would try but I don’t have access to the program (looks like I can buy a usb stick for Mac, I do not have Mac, and I am guessing it is for a very specific version of the OS anyway)
I know HTML/Twine is a modern successor for IF, but I wonder if making a small, easily-implementable VM that’s geared toward IF would be useful longer-term… something with a modest scope, similar to Uxn: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ppGktGITTsxk6bSF4VpZv16EVxBgS0gQ/view?usp=sharing
Would be easy for students to boot (assuming it runs in win98 and not just XP)
more about Quest here https://bluerenga.blog/tag/icl-quest/?order=ASC