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- From: librik@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Librik)
- Subject: Re: So you want to write a text adventure?
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:12:19 GMT
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- Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu> writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I doubt it. He has turned down offers to port TADS to the Amiga, because
- he doesn't own an Amiga. (At least this is what an Amiga owner who made such
- an offer told me). He's running a professional operation here and has to
- be able to support and upgrade what he sells. And he's into making money from
- his program ... which is fine with me, since it allows him to sell it with
- great manuals and lots of support.
-
- (An Apple 2 version? Hey, then a TRS-80 version should be a snap!)
-
- The trouble is, all of us here are such computer wizzes that what we *really*
- want to do is write our own Adventure systems! Much more fun than writing a
- game, after all. (Hey, just yesterday I was thinking about writing an
- adventure parser for Cherokee -- a language in which the physical properties
- of objects are reflected in the words. "You can't drink that ... it doesn't
- have a 'liquid' prefix!")
-
- - David Librik
- librik@cory.Berkeley.edu
-