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From: v131p9t3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ninstar Cybermage: Black Phoenix Rising)
Subject: Re: Adventure Authoring Systems FAQ
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It would be appreciated by those of us currently unable to obtain a sufficiently
powerful machine to run TADS or the other languages listed here, if you could
include at least a mention of systems written for the smaller systems as well.

People who are economically tied to a system like a commodore 64 or an apple II
may easily find themselves completely unsupported by this board.  Granted I 
could try running some of these systems on my academic unix account, but since 
I will not have such an account in a couple of years, I don't see this as an
efficient solution.  Granting that I will still have a freenet account, I will
have access to the net, but I will be unable to experiment with interactive 
fiction.  Please, help some of us out.

My machine in particular is a Commodore 64.  I have a C compiler.  Are any of
the languages written in C such that the C-source is generic enough or small
enough to work?

James O. Shank Jr.     HEE!		v131p9t3@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
AKA: Ninstar Cybermage  I 	or 	shank@acsu.buffalo.edu 
Black Phoenix Rising... A 	or 	aa247@freenet.acsu.buffalo.edu
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