I've just published a playable demo of my current passion project which is an Adventure Game Engine (AGE) that will capture the essense of what was great about classic text adventures and interactive-fiction titles, have some modern improvements and "hot keys", look and play like an MS-DOS era application, but run on a modern computer without need for emulation, currently test build supports Windows, Mac OS (x86), and Linux (Ubuntu), please check it out and let me know what you think.