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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Help with TADS?
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 04:46:36 GMT
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avif@cs.WPI.EDU (Avram Finkel) writes:

>Ok.  I've sketched out a plot, drawn up a map, chosen a language in which to
>program(That would be TADS), printed out athe manual to said language, and now
>I have one final task at hand before my if game is done:  Write The Code.

 Well, good thing you haven't started coding prior to developing a plot
and such. A common mistake (I've made it myself repeatedly) that
usually ends up with many unfinished iterations of a game... but no
final, finished game.

> [...]  Note:  This is _not_ a replacement for registering TADS and 
>getting the big, deluxe, massive, official TADS manual.  I'm going to do that
>as soon as I have the money, but I don't want to put off coding until that 
>happened, because that Would Be Bad.

 Well, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who'd be
interested in commenting on all sorts of TADS-related questions,
particularly if they were publicly posted so we could all benefit.
However I think you'd help both yourself and any volunteers
immeasurably by buying the manual first. Otherwise you're going to
waste a lot of your time, and other peoples', asking questions that
are answered in great detail in the documentation. Skip your daily
coffee and weekly movie for a month; buy the manual! It's a good
manual. Mike Roberts poured a lot of effort into that there manual.

 My $0.02, anyway.

>P.S.  When I got Unnkuulia 1, it was just as one big executable, not a .GAM 
>file and TC.  The registration info dosen't say anything about being able to do
>this.  Is the reg info incomplete, or will I have to sell my soul to 
>Adventions to do that?

 Isn't the game data file available on ftp.gmd.de? I always thought it
was...

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
