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From: gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees)
Subject: Re: Wanna be popular in the IF world? Read this
Date: 10 Mar 1996 17:39:45 +0000
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mathew <meta@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
> A better long term solution would be to specify AGTP (Adventure Game
> Transfer Protocol), and produce a client program which would talk AGTP
> to an AGTP server.

There isn't much point in doing this.  To play AGTP games, people would
have to download and setup the AGTP client.  But it would be just as
easy to download existing TADS and Inform interpreters.  The point about
developing a Java Z-code interpreter is that the Java virtual machine is
*already* on peoples' desktops.

> People are even trying to implement chat systems across the web, in
> spite of the fact that IRC already exists and is a hundred times
> better...

I could point you to RGTP (Reverse Gossip Transfer Protocol) and its
existing client/server base (see the URL
<http://www.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk/groggs/>).  But you would say,
rightly, that you already have an IRC client installed and it wouldn't
be worth your while installing a new client for some obscure new
protocol.

-- 
Gareth Rees
