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I'm not sure why you would feel the need to do this.  The Palm can hold
an astouding amount of text.  Right now I have a fairly complete
dictionary, two full length novels, and a dozen or so text adventures on
my (fairly old) Palm.  Not to mention three years worth of calendar,
1100 addresses, a chess program (which I've never played), and twenty or
so other third party programs.

Of course, you can't display more than a long paragraph on the screen at
a time, but I only read a word or two at a time.  Scrolling is very
painless.

If you find reading on your palm annoying, so be it.  But at least one
person finds it enjoyable:-)

There are only two frustrating things about playing IF on my palm:
computation intensive pieces such as Pytho's mask take so long between
turns as to be unplayable, and things such as the maps in Muldoon are
unreadable due to the narrow screen.

-Jim


Jim Aikin wrote:

>
> It's pretty easy to make amount_of_text a user-controllable parameter.
> (It's a bit easier in TADS than Inform, I think.) This will satisfy both
> hardcore gamers and the Palm Pilot crowd. You write your room
> descriptions in such a way as to print out the longer version if the
> user has entered 'longtext on' or some such. You just have to be careful
> not to put any key clues in the long text.
>
> --Jim Aikin
>


