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is the original program adventure writing of Inform worth learning
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Brian
Jun 3, 2013, 5:46:37 AM6/3/13
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I have tried the new more modern natural language inform way of writing an
adventure but the results are sometimes unpredictable and often more code
is needed to try and narrow down exactly what you want to happen for
certain conditions in the adventure.
Is the original c style Inform adventure writing still getting support or
is it likely to die out in favour of the natural english adventure writing?
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Regards Brian
adventure but the results are sometimes unpredictable and often more code
is needed to try and narrow down exactly what you want to happen for
certain conditions in the adventure.
Is the original c style Inform adventure writing still getting support or
is it likely to die out in favour of the natural english adventure writing?
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Regards Brian
Tom A
Jun 3, 2013, 2:17:07 PM6/3/13
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Don't know if there is any development on Inform 6 any more, but it's a fairly mature tool, and probably doesn't _need_ much else new.
Tom A.
David Griffith
Jun 3, 2013, 3:51:18 PM6/3/13
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Tom A <meteoric...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 3, 2013 4:46:37 AM UTC-5, Brian wrote:
>> I have tried the new more modern natural language inform way of writing an
>> adventure but the results are sometimes unpredictable and often more code
>> is needed to try and narrow down exactly what you want to happen for
>> certain conditions in the adventure.
>>
>> Is the original c style Inform adventure writing still getting
>> support or is it likely to die out in favour of the natural english
>> adventure writing?
> On Monday, June 3, 2013 4:46:37 AM UTC-5, Brian wrote:
>> I have tried the new more modern natural language inform way of writing an
>> adventure but the results are sometimes unpredictable and often more code
>> is needed to try and narrow down exactly what you want to happen for
>> certain conditions in the adventure.
>>
>> Is the original c style Inform adventure writing still getting
>> support or is it likely to die out in favour of the natural english
>> adventure writing?
> Inform 7 reminds me of COBOL, way to wordy for what you get. Give me
> the compressed style of an Algo or Fortran derived language any day.
> :-)
> Don't know if there is any development on Inform 6 any more, but it's
> a fairly mature tool, and probably doesn't _need_ much else new.
Inform also reminds me of COBOL.
> the compressed style of an Algo or Fortran derived language any day.
> :-)
> Don't know if there is any development on Inform 6 any more, but it's
> a fairly mature tool, and probably doesn't _need_ much else new.
I picked up the custody of Inform6 Library and the Unix package for the
Inform6 compiler suite. The latest release of this is 6.33.1-beta1. I
haven't been given the all-clear from the rest of the Inform Developers
to make an official release of 6.33, but I did get the okay to release
it as a beta. This contains fixes for most of the bugs described at
http://inform-fiction.org/patches/library.html. A nice enhancement that
you may enjoy is the ability to use first and third person voices in
addition to the age-old second-person voice.
This release should work fine with MacOS. I would be delighted if
someone could update the Windows package for it.
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David Griffith
davidmy...@acm.org <--- Put my last name where it belongs
Brian
Jun 4, 2013, 8:17:16 AM6/4/13
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Will it work on Windows 7 64 bit operating system?
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Regards Brian
David Griffith
Jun 4, 2013, 6:19:29 PM6/4/13
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