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From: c-wilson@uchicago.edu (Clark H. Wilson)
Subject: Re: Marketing shareware and freeware I-F
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 23:09:03 GMT
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Kim Seybert wrote:

>> Likewise, I'd like to write an article on the rebirth of I-F over the
last
couple of years.  The article would start with the old days of Infocom
and
move on to discuss how new authoring tools like TADS and Inform, along
with a strong internet presence, have rejuvinated the field. <<

One "rejuvination" angle that occurs to me for an article or paragraph
might be second- or third-generation I-F players.  I myself first played
"Colossal Cave" or whatever on a DEC-20, and Douglas Adams games on a TI
99/4A.  My 13-year-old son has played many more of the Infocom games
than I ever did (thanks to "Lost Treasures of Infocom vol. 1"), and my
8-year-old daughter and I are playing Planetfall together. Etc.

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Clark Wilson
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"No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feed on thee."

  -- G.M. Hopkins

