> [...] It is a shame that by using TADS many
>authors are excluding part of their potential audience. [...]
Hm. Perhaps. But for me portability isn't my main interest. I write
in TADS because I happen to like it, it does what I want and because I
can create a gigantic game with ease. I'm not doing it to make money
or reach vast audiences, so it doesn't bother me at all that a few
people out there (who don't have a Mac, a PC or a UNIX box) won't be
able to use my game. Whenever it's done... My point being simply that
different people have different priorities.
> [...] (I am thinking in particular of
>Acorns, which by the very existence of Curses must surely account for more
>than a mere 10f the platforms used for creating IF).
Doubtful, to be honest. Outside of the UK nobody has ever heard of
Acorns. Aside from botanists.
- Neil K.
-- 49N 16' 123W 7' / Vancouver, BC, Canada / n_k_guy@sfu.ca