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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: WinFrotz color bugs
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L. Ross Raszewski <lraszewski@loyola.edu> wrote:
>Simple. Playing a text adventure in a non-console window is stupid,
>evil, and wrong. And yes, the day I can't use console mode is probably
>the day I give up and start writing my own operating system.

Playing games written for a virtual machine which supports underlining
and italics in a text-mode window which doesn't support underlining
and italics is stupid, evil and wrong. Indeed, a "console window" is
a total waste, since it's an entirely graphical beast emulating a
powerless text-only beast.

But yes, it might be nice to still support DosFrotz. I just think it
would be nice not to have to tell people using Windows that there are
two different interpreters they'll need to use (assuming the choose
the frotz family of interpreters).

Sean
