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Subject: Re: Interactive fiction
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 19:41:24 EDT
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Summary: Adventure Authoring system described in latest BYTE

Re: Interactive Fiction

	In the last issue of BYTE magazine a LISP-like interactive
fiction authoring system was described.  The listing is in C and is
available on BIX.  Anyone with a BIX account like to download it and
post it to some newsgroup that we all have access to?  I for one wouldn't
mind porting the thing to the Amiga, and I'm sure others would enjoy porting
it to their respective systems.  Since it is written totally in C it
should be relatively easy to port to any C-equipped system.  I presume
the author wrote it on a IBM-PC so there may be PC-specific code which
would clearly have to be modified; hopefully not.  It looks VERY nice; it
supports "verb noun preposition noun", conjunctions (as in "verb noun
and noun preposition noun", where "noun" can be things like "the big
red book" and so on.  I've written such a system in AmigaBasic which
has a similar level of parser complexity, but of course the LISP syntax
makes the adventure system much nicer; in particular you specify rooms
by name, objects can have arbitraily long property lists, and objects
can have different sets of properties (i.e., not all objects have to
have all of the possible properties) and so on.  Very nice.

				-Mitsu