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From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
Organization: No Conspiracy Here...
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John Elliott wrote:

> Graham Nelson <graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >John Colagioia wrote:
> >> > Someone could write IF for the ZX Spectrum. You would get graphics,
> >> > sound, and code that will run almost everywhere.
> >> This is true.  This is eerily true.
> >"The Quill" is still around, I think.
>   Its descendant, PAW, is still available for DOS:
> <http://www.btinternet.com/~yeandle/advent/index.html> and earlier Spectrum
> versions can be found in Spectrum archives.
>   Since UnQuill includes a Quill runtime written in Z-Code, Quilled games
> will run on a Z-machine as well as their native platform - though minus
> their graphics and sound.

Somehow, I find this far more disquieting than the idea of convincing the
people at Be to reimplement BeOS in Befunge...

Which, of course, means I must give this a good look-through...


