AGT 1.81
3 Feb 1995 22:07:45 GMT
I'm posting this article re: AGT 1.81. This version of AGT was created
from the version 1.7 source code. V1.81 had a few bugs; I'm almost done
with 1.82. Some of the new features include an UNDO command and the
ability to print text in "quote boxes", as seen in some Infocom games
and Curses. I'll be uploading v1.82 to ftp.gmd.de in a few days. v1.81
is available in ftp.gmd.de/programming/agt.
Does anyone have any features they would like to see added to "Classic"
AGT? Something I'm thinking of adding are two meta-commands: BeforeCommand
and AfterCommand. These would be conditional tokens. BeforeCommand would
execute the COMMAND before the player's input in processes (i.e. the same
way meta-commands are done now.) The AfterCommand would process the COMMAND
after the player's input is processed. Thus, the turn sequence would
look like this:
Before Commands
|
v
Standard Input Processing
|
v
After Commands
COMMANDS that did not have the BeforeCommand or AfterCommand tokens
would be processed in *both* the before- and after-sequences; this
would mean that all currently available games would have to be
modified...
Let me know what you think.
John Menichelli
menichel@pixi.com
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