Sad news One of our Code Abbey members has passed away

Oleksi, thanks a lot, though these are very sad news :(

Graeme (or as he preferred to sign - Grae) was with us since very beginning and not quite ordinary user - he was eagerly testing everything (e.g. Intel 4004 assembly simulator) and many silly features which were added and later removed or on contrary never went live - thus he helped to make a fix a lot of small things here and there, and the site probably would be much more crooked without his devotion.

Besides our small website he was somewhat influential in the world of the "interactive fiction" - one of the very early users of ZX-80 home computers (in the times when users were to solder it manually and solve the puzzle of attaching it to TV and cassete recorder) - for which he created very compact Quill tool which allows to write text quest games in the manner of "Colossal Cave" or "Zork". While he doesn't authored many such games himself, it seems that amount of games created with this tool by other people and companies is impressive.

Seems like this page tells the story better https://bluerenga.blog/2025/11/25/time-line-1983/. I was always big fan of such games (though never played them well).