West of House
You can see a mailbox here.
 
>OPEN MAILBOX
Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.
 
>READ LEAFLET
* * * Welcome to Yonk! * * *
 
Yonk is a Macintosh application for authors of Interactive Fiction (IF) -- that is, "text adventure" games such as Infocom's Zork I or Scott Adams' Adventureland. In the early days of the home computer, text adventures dominated the market for entertainment software; as home computers grew more capable, though, text adventures were surpassed on the bestseller lists by graphical, action-oriented games.
 
There's still a quietly growing community of IF authors and players, however, and the tools and languages for writing interactive fiction have evolved over the years. Yonk is designed to work with Inform, a programming language designed especially for writing IF -- Yonk makes it easier to write a game in Inform, by automating repetitive tasks and handling some of the details.
 
No IF author should be without one!
 
 
>GET YONK
 
>EXAMINE YONK SCREENSHOTS
 
>READ THE DOCUMENTATION
 
>LOOK AT VERSION HISTORY
 
>ASK ABOUT SOURCE CODE