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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:47:25 MST
Message-Id: <199309161527.AA22243@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU>
From: John Kohl <kohl@socrates.umd.edu>
Subject: Reading PS files
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:27:13 EDT
Cc: garl@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
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We at Palet Software Inc. are developing puzzle games
for use under MS Windows. Our first game, Traction, was written
using BorlandC. Its 250 k Byte source is more low level than we
want to endure again.
This was all the more remarkable in that Gary LeTourneau
(our chief developer) has muscular dystrophy. He can no longer
use standard keyboards or mice.
We intend to try XIcon under OS/2 as a prototyping
environment for new games. If successful, we will shift over
to the Win32s version when available next year.
An immediate limitation is XIcon's documentation is in
Postscript. We've printed and read this. But Gary needs an online
version of the procedure calls for when he is programming.
A Postscript reader under OS/2 would be great. Otherwise,
we would appreciate an ascii version of the XIcon procedure calls.
John Kohl
Univ Md University College
kohl@socrates.umd.edu