Re: Dealing with judges who can't run TADS


Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:38:05 GMT

In article <DGCJt6.7I5@ansoft.com>, palmer@ansoft.com (Palmer Davis) writes:
|>
|> Even better, we could set up a machine on the net somewhere with a
|> public account with a restricted shell and a directory containing the
|> entries, a Z machine interpreter, the TADS runtime, and run times for
|> any other system that authors might use (AGT? ADVSYS?). Anyone not
|> able to run TADS on their own machine could telnet in at their own l
|> eisure to evaluate the TADS entries. Make it something plain vanilla
|> (like a SPARC running SunOS 4.1.x) and known in advance, and just
|> about any system could be accomodated.

It occurs to me that someone with a Linux box who is feeling pretty friendly
and trusting could easily setup rocat or another BBS software and offer the
games as doors. In fact, when I was playing around with rocat a few months
ago, I did exactly this (although the games were curses, balances, and
minizork) as an experiment.

Since a current TADS run-time exists for Linux, this is certainly a possibility.
If our campus backbone is brought up in time, I might even do it myself :-)

Just a thought,

Mike Phillips, msphil@aardvark.cc.wm.edu