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- From: erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks)
- Subject: Re: Totally helpless
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 02:08:28 EDT
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- Palmer T. Davis (ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
- :
- : Two popular choices for IF development systems are TADS and ADVSYS.
- : TADS is shareware, and has attracted a great deal of attention; I don't
- : remember whether the most recent version has an Amiga port or not.
-
- Not yet :-(
-
- : ADVSYS is free, and is distributed in portable C source.
-
- ADVSYS is available from comp.sources.(games|misc|unix) [I forget which one]
- in source form for UN*X and from the Fred Fish library for the Amiga in
- binary form only. I did port the UN*X version to the Amiga; I seem to
- recall the only problem was with printing the prompt before the user
- input (an extra fflush() or two fixed it). The Fish disk is an early
- one (like ~45)
-
- I have written a little in ADVSYS (a 10 room mini-adventure, written
- for learning purposes). I really like it. After working with ADVSYS,
- I have quite an appreciation for OOP (especially planning out all
- of the objects in advance!)
-
- -ethan
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