>>(Chris Thomas)
>>The wait on a PowerMac is often a second or more. I don't think the
>>machine makes a huge difference, honestly.
>
>That's quite a generalization from a single data point. MacWeek has been
>reporting that 7000 series PowerMaccs perform poorly (sub-Qudra speeds) on
>a wide range of tasks. Supposedly, it helps a lot to have an L2 cache. I
>don't have one on my 7200/90, and it seems fine. But I don't do much
>compute-intensive work on it, either.
Indeed, I suspect there's something going on here in a system setting or
some such. I did about half my Legend playing on a Mac IIsi (yuk) at
work, and it was quite zippy--no pun intended.
I did run into an odd memory problem that made it impossible to take the
Akmi Wunder-Gro, but otherwise had no complaints. Sure as hell beat
playing it on my 486SX/25.
I'm with Dave, though: a native PowerMac version of TADS could be a real
screamer. I have no idea what's involved in doing such a port, but the
other features you might be looking for--snazzy fonts, formatting,
whatever--will be trivial.
Good luck,
Matthew