With Mac TADS 2.2, I've often had trouble setting dials to numbers.
It's too late at night to generate actual examples, but I recall
having to go through circumlocutions like
SET DIAL TO 5
[which dial?]
LEFT
because I couldn't do it all on one line.
This happened in Legend and, I think, John's Fire Witch.
> I've played lots
> of text games, and the TADS games have historically had margainally
> *better* parsing than their Infocom/Inform equivalents.
I marginally prefer the Inform parser. I'm sure it's a matter of what
you're used to. The two parser libraries *do* diverge in places, and
it's easy to get annoyed when a game doesn't do what you expect.
> Personally, I think the TADS DOS run-time is much nicer than the Infocom
> format readers
Oh, I agree. You think I wrote my fancy Infocom interpreters out of
boredom? :)
--Z
(Well, boredom too.)
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."