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From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
Subject: Re: So you want to write a text adventure?
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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.

-- Russ
