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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
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<Pine.SOL.3.95.961203220543.13538A-100000@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>, Kevin
Carboni <kc001f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> wrote:

>        Hi.  Um...I'm kind of new here...in fact, I'm very new here.  My
>name is Kevin Carboni, I'm a college student who was hopelessly hooked on
>Interactive fiction before he hit third grade...well, before you shove me
>off to rec.games.int-fiction, let me just say that I really want to learn
>to _write_ interactive fiction, but I don't have the foogiest idea how to
>go about it...I visited the Inform Web site and I was completely lost.
>Couldn't get half the files I needed to download.  I have no programming
>experience, unless you count HTML.  Any pointers?  Hints?  Advice?

You need to check out the Interactive Fiction Archive at 
<ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/>.  You might also check the FAQs at
<ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/rec.arts.int-fiction/FAQ> and
<ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/rec.games.int-fiction/FAQ>.

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