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From: Peter Killworth <P.Killworth@soc.soton.ac.uk>
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Chuck, the extra resources were partly the company and partly me (they
had
better gifts that way than I did, which isn't surprising).
Inform is about the one system I didn't convert it to. Since it's
still a commercial program (though at the end of its very long days now)
I can't offer you an interpreter and a compiled program [mainly 'cos
I don't have the interpreters for different machines!].
However, if you spoke nicely to Brian at Topologika he might well take
pity on you and send you a copy... you're hardly in competition with
him.

Two things I built in which may be of use:
1. Some randomisation so that if Johnny at terminal 1 gets a solution
it isn't necessarily the same for Jemima next door at terminal 2;
2. The game can take a term [read semester] to work through; the reward
for solving a puzzle is, in the words of someone I've forgotten, to get
a harder puzzle.
Cheers,
Peter
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