The Hint Library
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| The Hint Library | |
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| Utility | |
| Hint system and format for Windows | |
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| Link | |
| Developer | Stefan Meier |
| System | Windows |
| System details | For Windows 95/NT. |
| Latest version | 1.1 / 15 March 1997 |
| Status | Unmaintained |
| License | Freeware |
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The Hint Library or THL was a format and associated software for giving gradual hints for interactive fiction works, developed by Stefan Meier.
Hints were distributed in a binary format (.thl), capable of supporting multimedia. The reader/creator software ran on Windows 95/NT, in German and English versions.
Most of the hints available in this format were conversions of Infocom's Invisiclues; there were also hints for So Far (contributed by Lucian P. Smith) and the graphical game Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity.
Links
- Original homepage (dead link 🔍).
- Later homepage (dead link 🔍).
- solutions/thl/ at the IF Archive (the software and hint files).
- The Hint Library (Freeware) on rec.games.int-fiction, announcing THL 1.1 (15-Mar-1997).
- The Hint Library [THL file format] - thread at the IntFiction forum started 11-Feb-2026, leading to the recovery of the sources.
- THL at GitHub - recovered source code and hint files.
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