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From: braind@cix.compulink.co.uk ("David Brain")
Subject: Re: New/Old Games
Message-ID: <CwJyyv.Ezq@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 22:40:06 GMT
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> > I'd like to see a text adventure that takes advantage of a window
> > system interface.  Is this significantly different from a graphic
> > adventure?  Maybe not..
> 
> I'm meeting some friends this week to discuss interface ideas... ask
> again in two years :-)
> 

How about the Legend system (Gateway, Eric the Unready etc) which doesn't 
really work, but is a good try (I just turn off the silly windows and 
revert back to typing commands), or the wonderful Magnetic Scrolls 
interface (used to best effect in Alice in Wonderland), which almost 
out-windowed Windows(tm) ? (< rhetorical question mark)

David
