Re: Help


Fri, 28 Apr 95 13:46:59 GMT

Sean Marshall wrote:
>Hello! I wanted to introduce myself to you. My name is Sean Marshall,

Hello there!

[...]
> I'm trying to find a FAQ list for this newsgroup.

The FAQs for rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction are stored
on ftp.gmd.de, the interactive fiction archive, in the /if-archive
directory. Rummage around there and see what you find. GMD has many
IF games, several adventure development systems and other IF-related
information.

> As a present to my girlfriend
>for her birthday I would like some devlopment tools for the IBM so I
>could make example of interactive fiction on the same presention quality
>as a Infocom production.

There are plenty of IF development languages. ADVSYS and AGT were
popular systems in the past, but the choice today is really between
TADS or Inform. If you want to write really Infocom-like games, you
could use Inform, which produces game files that can be played with
Infocom's own interpreter programs!

There's a file somewhere on GMD that gives a detailed comparison of
the two systems. If I remember correctly it's
/if-archive/info/TADS-vs-Inform.FAQ

--Charles