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From: mattack@eskimo.com (Matt Ackeret)
Subject: Re: Wanna be popular in the IF world? Read this
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In article <GDR11.96Mar1100627@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>"Sam Hulick" <shulick@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>> Anyone ever had the idea of writing a Z interpreter for Web pages?
>> i.e. make it into a cgi which would input strings from the user
>> through the page, and show them the results.  I think it would be
>> kinda neat.
>
>Perhaps a more useful project would be to port the Z machine interpreter
>to Java.

	I don't recall if I pissed on either of these projects publically
yet.  Of course, if either of these were done, you couldn't let them play the
actual Infocom datafiles, since you would then be likely breaking the 
"one copy on one computer at a time" thing in the license.  I'm only bringing
this up since such a thing on the Web would probably get on a "cool sites"
page and get stomped on by Activision eventually.

	(Sure, you could _technically_ say that if it were a web page entirely,
everything would be on the server end, but that would seem to break the spirit
of the law if possibly not the letter of the law.)

	It would be cool for such an idea to exist though, you could 
put up the freeware games, though anyone that enjoys playing through an annoying
web page interface would enjoy playing on their own computer better!
-- 
unknown@apple.com		Apple II Forever
These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
