Re: Limitations of Inform and TADS?


06 Nov 1995 10:52:30 +0000

[Dave Baggett]
(And I wrote and
playtested UU2 on an 8Mhz 68000 Atari ST, and the performance was certainly
acceptable.)

Just to add to the record - I actually tried out Legend on my Atari
ST, and it worked acceptably, though a bit too slow for my taste but
the machine isn't that fast either.

(When I played Legend on an UNIX box, I didn't have any timelag BTW,
so get one today :-)

Both of these ports were done quite a while ago (incidentally both by
Dave who must have done quite a few ports), and compared with the
interfaces back then I think both of them are more than
acceptable. True, compared with MaxZip or XZip they might be lacking,
but those programs are slightly newer... (I'm actually pretty pleased
with the Atari version - I don't need anything more. The UNIX version
used to irritate me because I expected history editing on the cursor
keys :-)

Jarle.

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