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From: Kevin Carboni <kc001f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: Interactive Fiction
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bob Adams wrote:

> In article <32a98045.5762970@news.peinet.pe.ca>, Trevor Barrie
> <tbarrie@cycor.ca> writes 
> 
> >>>I've gone through both newsgroups, and it appears as though most if 
> >>>not all folks here are code warriors. I'm hoping to find others like 
> >>>myself, who are using hypertext to create interactive works of fiction 
> >>>on the Web.
> >
> >I'm not familiar with the idea of "web-based interactive fiction"... how
> >dissimilar would it be to Infocom-style IF? 
> >
> Strange coincidence. I was playing around with a JavaScript tutorial the 
> other day and it struck me that this could easily be used for an 
> interactive text or still graphic adventure on a web page.
> 
	Yes, Java itself could be used, and used rather well...but I think
the point of the original post was to start a thread about creating IF
using _hypertext_, because it isn't so code-intensive.  Hypertext isn't,
IMHO, interactive enough to write IF with.........

				Kevin Carboni

