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From: grruffin@ellis.uchicago.edu (Steppin' Razor)
Subject: IF history / Infocom vocab
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From grruffin Sun Sep 12 23:47:40 1993
To: /nfs/ellis/e1/grruffin/.article
Subject: IF history / Infocom vocab

Sorry to post using this sort of subject, but I lost the thread and wanted
to say a couple of different things... first off, to the person who wanted
to put together a good history of interactive fiction: Zorks co-author
was Dave Lebling. A few good articles to look for are Byte back issues,
specifically around 1980... a lot of good "early history" point of views
esp. by Lebling and others who were writing games at that time.

On another note, to all of you who have been talking about Infocom parsers,
vocab, and what have you... and esp. to the person who mentioned have a verb
dump or whatever it was, use archie to ftp a file called zorkword...
it's a great little program that will give you a complete vocabulary list for
each Infocom game... it's really amusing to see some of the words that you
didn't know were in there, and to use it to look at things like synonym
support, what have you...
Enjoy...
GRR

