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From: jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein)
Subject: Re: New TADS game
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:10:21 GMT
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neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy) writes of my game, Save Princeton:
> Sorry. I did notice it supports "undo." It doesn't support things
>like self-opening doors and such... although that could have been a
>design decision and not a matter of not using the updated ADV.T from
>1.2. 
To be honest, I most of it before TADS 2.0 came out, and I decided not
to update it too much. Perhaps I should have included self-opening
doors, but I had already developed my own way of dealing with doorways,
and I didn't feel like re-doing it. Do people consider having to
repeatedly type "open door" to be a major inconvenience?
 
>By the way, in case there was any misconception, I was not
>blasting "Princeton" for being slow. It's an issue with virtual memory
>and TADS - I've had to turn off VM when testing my game on a Mac Plus.
>Unfortunately you can't seem to do that when playing a standalone TADS
>2.0 game on the Mac.
You're quite right about the slowness of the damn thing. I've been
trying to figure out how to turn off the VM, and I can't. I've written
to Michael J. Roberts, and I'll report on his reply here.
> ( hmmmm.... this does appear to be turning into something best left
>for rec.ARTS.int-fiction, doesn't it?)
I agree- I've moved it to r.a.f. I would really be interested in seeing
any comments people have on the game; I know I'd learn a lot from seeing
constructive criticism, and I think it might prove to be of general
use.

