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From: zbir@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Zachery J. Bir)
Subject: Re: Ok, a non-tads curiosity
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:38:46 GMT
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Well, I first played Scott Adam's _Adventure_ games on my TI-99/4A way
back when I was twelve years old. And I _liked_ 'em, I _Loved_ 'em
(Thanks, Grumpy Old Man...)! Anyways, I discovered in them great
fantastical worlds (if limited by vocabulary) where I could ditch the
"real world" and spend a few hours roaming around doing nothing in
particular. Then, when I was, say 14, I played my first game of Zork,
in my cousin's basement on a Commodore 64. I fell in love instantly.
Never before had a book or even the rough and tumble SA adventures
taken me this far into a fantasy realm so descriptive and receptive to
my actions. I have never stopped loving these games, and probably
never will. And once I can scrape together the $40 (yeah, it's piddly,
but I'm a poor college student), I'm getting the full registered
version of TADS, and throwing my creations out to the net...

I was recently talking to a friend on the subject of I-F. He wants to
program graphic-rpgs, and I was telling him my interest in I-F,
explaining that I don't really know _why_ I like them so much (even
opposed to linear fiction). And he paid me this compliment:

"Zac," he said, "you are gifted with something that many people,
myself included, lack. The ability to fully visualize abstract things
like a descriptive passage." 
 
I nearly cried. That was the nicest, most unsolicited compliment I had
received in a long time...

Enough, keep reading, keep writing.

Z
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