Re: Limitations of Inform and TADS?


Fri, 10 Nov 1995 00:56:07 -0500

"Matthew Amster" <mamster@pomona.edu> writes:
> 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.

Other way around, actually. Since there is already a Macintosh port of
TADS, it's trivial to do a native PowerMac version. You can
basically take the 68K source and recompile with a native compiler.
(There are a few new data structure to set up, but it should be about
an hour's work.)

Snazzy formatting takes real programming time. Trust me. :-)

--Z

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