Re: Can I make money by w


5 Dec 1995 06:14:40 GMT

Joe Mason (joe.mason@tabb.com) wrote:
: [...] But I really don't know how many people are
: interested at all. I didn't think there was *anyone* interested until a
: couple months ago, when I lucked into Gareth's home page. I wonder how
: many others are out there who remember these games and just don't
: realize anybody still makes them?

I had no idea anyone cared about Interactive Fiction anymore either.
Until about a month ago, I was happy with having found the Lost
Treasures collection (my original Infocom stuff is all on 5.25" disks
for the now long-dead C64). It's nice to know that there are still
people interested in (and writing) IF.

I personally would consider purchasing IF, but it looks like most of the
shareware varients are only usable under MS-DOS. I find z5 based games
much more appealing in that they'll run on the DEC Alpha, Linux Boxen,
whatever. But I'm probably a small market segment.

Brian

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 Brian J. Swetland  NCSA Software Development Group, Mosaic/X Developer
 swetland@uiuc.edu  http://hagbard.ncsa.uiuc.edu/swetland/
                    "Give a skeptic an inch -- and he'll measure it."