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- From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
- Subject: Re: So you want to write a text adventure?
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- In article <41025@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Darin Johnson, djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu
- writes:
- >So, reading between the lines, can we assume TADS will only be
- >developed if there is a market? I think the comment on "C" was
- >whether or not it would be available in source code form, so it
- >could be put on any machine (ie, unix, amiga, apple iigs, etc.)
-
- I don't want to speak for Mike Roberts, but I would suggest that if
- someone contacted him and offered to port TADS to the Apple II, then it
- might work. Just understand that this is not a major software
- distributor we're talking about here -- the money-grubbing of commercial
- software is not at question, but the time required to conduct the porting
- operation is.
-
- -- Russ
-