Supernova

Supernova is a video game in the adventure genre developed by Apogee Software Productions and published by Apogee Software Productions originally released in 1987. It is currently playable on DOS.

Beyond The Titanic and Supernova, by Scott Miller, are two atmospheric, well-written IFs that, unfortunately, have been ignored by the gaming public, perhaps because their publisher, Apogee, is better known as a publisher of action games. It's a shame, because besides being the first games Apogee released, they are well written, with a good parser, in-game help function, and logical puzzles. I also remember that these games were among the first IF games to incorporate sound effects and effective use of color text.

In Beyond The Titanic you are a hapless passenger trying to escape from that ship of doom, while Supernova puts you in the shoes of a poor miner on a remote space mining colony about to embark on a strange adventure. Apogee released both games as freeware in March 1998, although they didn't find a way to make them save to hard disk, so you still need a floppy disk to save your games.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.