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From: jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein)
Subject: Re: New TADS game
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In article <neilg.726736836@sfu.ca> neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy) writes:
> Just came across a new text adventure developed with TADS on the
>umich mac archive site. It's called "Save Princeton," was developed by
>a couple of Princeton students, and I can't say much else since I
>haven't spent much time playing it.
>
> It seems reasonably interesting, although full of little in-jokes and
>sly references to friends and campus events. 
Thanks! I hope that even somebody with no connection to the university
will enjoy it.

>It was compiled under
>TADS 2.0.8 (although it doesn't take advantage of any new TADS 2.0
>features except for VM, apparently) and is thus painfully slow on a
>68000 Mac.
It also uses the "undo" command which was introduced in TADS 2.0.

I'd welcome any discussion of the merits and faults of the game, which
is the first one I've ever written. If people would care for such a
discussion, perhaps it ought to be moved to rec.arts.int-fiction.

By the way-- an IBM version will be released by February 1.
