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Infidel is an interactive fiction video game published by Infocom in 1983. It was written and designed by Michael Berlyn and Patricia Fogleman, and was the first in the "Tales of Adventure" line. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), TRS-80, and TI-99/4A. Ports were later published for Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga. Infidel is Infocom's tenth game. Plot Infocom intended Infidel to be the first of a "Tales of Adventure" series. The player's character is a self-styled adventurer and fortune hunter. The character appears to have a bitter personality as he thinks that his boss Craige should treat him as a partner instead of an assistant. Progressing in the storyline a call comes while Craige is out checking some equipment. The call is from a woman named Rose Ellington, who wants to sponsor an expedition to discover the pyramid that her archaeologist father was not able to. The player's character egoistically and hungry for attention tells the woman he is more than capable of taking the job and decides not to inform Craige about the call. In 1916, Dr. Ellington came into possession of a 5000-year-old fragment of pottery covered with hieroglyphics. After years of research, Dr. Ellington managed to decipher a portion of the text, indicating the general location of a pyramid that was not known of. The deciphered text described a queen with great riches. Later, when Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut, Rose Ellington, the daughter of the now-late Dr. Ellington, thought that someone had found the pyramid and stowed the papers and artifacts away.

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“There is but one thing without honour; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be: Insincerity, Unbelief.”
— Thomas Carlyle Chartism (1839), Ch. 8
“Those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and desire to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others; and desire to take a course in between -- These are truly disbelievers and We have prepared for the disbelievers an abasing chastisement.”
— Quran, Chapter 4 (An-Nisa) : 150-151
“No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.”
— Richard Salter Storrs, p. 347.
“The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.”
— Mark Hopkins, p. 348.
“I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.”
— Samuel Johnson, p. 349.
“When you see a mad dog, don't argue with him unless you are sure of your logic.”
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 349.

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Notable quotes

“There is but one thing without honour; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be: Insincerity, Unbelief.”
— Thomas Carlyle Chartism (1839), Ch. 8
“Those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and desire to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others; and desire to take a course in between -- These are truly disbelievers and We have prepared for the disbelievers an abasing chastisement.”
— Quran, Chapter 4 (An-Nisa) : 150-151
“No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.”
— Richard Salter Storrs, p. 347.
“The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.”
— Mark Hopkins, p. 348.
“I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.”
— Samuel Johnson, p. 349.
“When you see a mad dog, don't argue with him unless you are sure of your logic.”
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 349.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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