Re: Hi! I'm new here


Sun, 30 Jul 1995 23:56:07 GMT

Cindy M. Carney <Cindy@kamilche.wa.com> wrote:
>Someone suggested I turn here, as I was about to create a new adventure gaming
>system from scratch, not knowing one already existed.
>
>Specifically, they mentioned "TADS" and "Inform". I know TADS is available
>for the Mac - is INFORM?

Yes. TADS and Inform are 'pushed' as the only two adventure development
systems worth considering. This may or may not be true, because there
are many others. Judging by conversation on this newsgroup, though, they
seem about evenly matched in popularity.

The ftp site for the newsgroup (and a place where you can get an
evaluation version of TADS, as well as a complete Inform distribution
[it's freeware]) is ftp.gmd.de in the if-archive/ directory.

Alternatively, I maintain a Web page with the file descriptions for
ftp.gmd.de, linked to the programs themselves.
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~svanegmo

Either way, you would probably find the directories

infocom/info/
info/
programming/general-discussion

of interest. There's a detailed TADS-vs-Inform comparison, a summary of
the available systems, and some more.

/Steve