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From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
Subject: So you want to write a text adventure?
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After mentioning, in passing, the availability of the source code for
Deep Space Drifter, I received a surprising number of requests for it. 
So the idea came to me -- if all these people are trying to suffer
through TADS by examining source code (and I will be the first to admit
that it can be a struggle), why wouldn't somebody come forward to teach
folks how to do it?

With this in mind, I invite anyone interested in TADS to sign themselves
up for a course I will be running in the near future.  The first lesson
will be sent out two weeks from today, and new lessons will come every
two weeks afterwards starting on January 15th.  While the course will
begin with the basics of TADS programming, later lessons will aid you in
first developing the concept for, and then actually creating a TADS
adventure of your own.

There is no charge for these lessons.  My only aim is to pull IF out of
the mire of neat graphics and back into the glory of text in which it was
originally born and in which it enjoyed its golden age.

-- Russ

P.S. The reason the course does not go into full swing until January 15th
is because I am awaiting the release of TADS 2.0 before pumping you all
full of outdated information.  Please include the quote from the bottom
of page 5 of the manual with your request for the course -- in other
words, only registered users need reply.
