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- From: rye@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Rye Senjen)
- Subject: Re: [Storyspace] hypertext novel ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.221830.15990@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:18:30 GMT
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- > Storyspace, written for the Macintosh,
- > allows the writer to invent an extraordinary
- > number of lines and to connect them in weird and
- > multifarious ways. One word or phrase or
- > graphical element can lead to any number of
- > others; one "space"--a kind of window in the text
- > that is to Storyspace what the paragraph is to
- > print text--can lead to any number of others.
- > The reader's choices are both enabled and
- > circumscribed as the author chooses: I might
- > allow only one connection between spaces, I might
- > force you to choose among many; I might not allow
- > you to see certain spaces until you have read
- > others (this is done through a cute piece of
- > technique called a "guard field" that allows
- > access to a given space only when specified
- > criteria have been met). I can present you a
- > two-dimensional map of all spaces and allow you
- > to choose among them at your whim.
- > *****
- > [end of excerpt]
-
- I felt rather inspired by Tom's posting on hypertext
- prose and would like to play with a good one.
-
- My experience so far with hypertext text (educational stuff mainly)
- has been more one of boredom and annoyance. Is there anything
- interesting availbable that I could ftp ???? Anybody know if there
- is hypertext software availble for the sun???
-
- r.senjen@trl.oz.au
-