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Lobular distribution of human liver phenol and bilirubin uridine 5'-diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase messenger RNAs.
Heterogeneity in uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP) glucuronosyltransferase expression across the human hepatic acinus may be important in the manifestation of certain zone-specific chemical hepatotoxicitie... | null | null | null |
Your terps.txt file refers to a linux glulx patch that
doesn't seem to exist in the archive (the ...sdl... patch).
I saw two other sound patches but wasn't sure which to use.
Curt
(posted and emailed)
Marnie Parker wrote:
> I wrote Carma.
>
> I am revealing myself early because Glulx is so new. There is a terps.tx... | Re: [Carma] Author reveals self | Curt Siffert <siffert@museworldSPAMSUCKS.com> | Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:04:02 +0000 |
In article <6nrok4$9pj8p@fido.engr.sgi.com>,
John Francis <jfrancis@dungeon.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
I've got a copy. The (5 1/4) disks are only slightly bent from
where I jumped on them. Then I reinstalled (upgraded to ?) DOS 3.3.
I've got a copy of DOS 5.0, too. It's better than 4.0, but it got
repla... | Re: Text editors (Re: [OFF-TOPIC again -- DOS] Re: [Inform] Multiple paths under linux) | earendil@faeryland.tamu-commerce.edu (Allen Garvin) | 1998/07/06 |
Does this work?
> instead of entering wheelie bin:
> now dog is in wheelie bin;
> continue the action. | Move NPC inside enterable container | Marshal Tenner Winter | 2019-08-12T14:14:44.395744 |
I bought a cheap ThinkPad x280 the other day, specifically for running Inform when not at my main computer.
I used to run Ubuntu many years ago but had to return to Windows as I use the entire Adobe suite, but since I only need to run Inform on the thinkpad, I'm wondering if it'll run ok on Mint. I can't find any rec... | Inform 10 on Linux Mint | null | 2024-05-11T15:00:54.114958 |
Ok,
I know basically how to make a pseudo-random number generator -- I did it when I was a kid, using remainders of repeated divisions, as I recall.
But how do I splice that into TAD's random feature? For example, in picking a string for display? -- Or do I just have to do everything random the long way again?
Co... | Ok, here is the big question... -norand? | null | 2012-02-26T17:49:27 |
I am reissuing all my books over the next year or so.
-- Mike Berlyn
mberlyn@cascadepublishing.com
Jay Goemmer wrote in message <6pm8gi$235$1@news01.micron.net>...
>tommage@aol.com (TomMage) wrote:
>
>>I have extra Enchanter, Planetfall, Stationfall, Zorkquest #3, Zorkquest
#4.
>>
>>Need Wishbringer.
>
> Have Wish... | Re: FS/T Infocom books | "Mike Berlyn" <mberlyn@cascadepublishing.com> | 1998/08/01 |
Hi. I'm Slim.
Started in 2003, still working on the same game through multiple builds. Sorry for asking for help and bothering you guys I do alot of coding,
and have been back and forth between raising five kids alone and working full time two jobs. | Introducing Ourselves | James Slim | 2017-10-25T13:54:53 |
I'm looking at some old I7 code and want to bring it up to speed. It uses Plurality by Emily Short. I guess that extension is considered deprecated now...
Is there a guide of some sort describing how to convert old phrases from Plurality using new built-in features and/or other extensions?
Specifically, things like... | Rewriting old code that uses Plurality by Emily Short | null | 2017-09-22T07:38:10 |
In article <96ca7c$r7m$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>,
Gunther Schmidl <gschmidl@xxx.gmx.at> wrote:
>While you're at it, you might want to remove the Executor link - from my
>experience it's an incredibly expensive crippleware piece of crap.
In my experience it's a slightly expensive application that runs
Quarterstaff quite ... | Re: Hooray for Emulation | adam@princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) | 13 Feb 2001 22:46:53 GMT |
There is an explanation of the VM's undo mechanism in the source here: https://github.com/tads-intfic/tads-runner/blob/master/tads3/vmparam.h#L96. Changes to properties are recorded as they occur, so data that never changes shouldn't contribute. | Reducing UNDO State Size | Adrian | 2023-04-12T19:04:24.435436 |
<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message
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> In article <bjvv129pf23m02jk61jerh5hvqo6j29lc8@4ax.com>,
> Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:
>>On Tue, 21 Mar 06 12:39:06 GMT in alt.folklore.computers,
>>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, point. Th... | Re: The Pankian Metaphor (was: Goodbye to USENET) | "Hank Oredson" <horedson@earthlink.net> | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:23:08 GMT |
Don't games such as Acheton or Hezarin make the grade? | The list of the longest games ever | Mike Arnautov | 2022-03-16T14:25:05.419272 |
On Jun 25, 8:47 am, Victor Gijsbers <vic...@lilith.gotdns.org> wrote:
> I don't get this at all. Surely IF--far more than mainstream fiction--is
> about figuring out what is happening, who the people in the story all
> really are, and what events really transpired?...
> What you describe as "learning" seems to be almo... | Re: Textual IF : Identification, Growth (Player and Player Character) | Emily Short <emshort@mindspring.com> | Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:37:12 -0700 (PDT) |
Small Business
There's a very nice, reasonably priced women's clothing store in Montrose called, appropriately, the Clothing Market. I have shopped there regularly since it opened a little over a year ago. I went again on Christmas Eve to take advantage of its 20% off sale, and thought briefly, “Oh my gosh! It's gone!... | null | null | null |
Twist@cris.com (Twist) wrote:
>
>I've posted WinFrotz 4.5, as well as a new 1.06 console version on my web
>page. The URL is: http://www.cris.com/~Twist/WinFrotz
>
>Also there is a bit of news: Activision contacted me and asked if they
>could distribute WinFrotz from the Activision web site as part of the
>Zork: Gran... | Re: New WinFrotz 4.5 and some news | werpu@inflab.uni-linz.ac.at (Werner Punz) | 1997/08/29 |
Peter Hill wrote:
>
> Hi everyone out there,
> I'm doing a project on IF games from the 80s but haven't decided on a
> direction yet soooo....i would love to hear from people and find out what
> their favourite game from this period was, why they liked it etc. If you
> want to share this info with me (just a couple o... | Re: project direction | Stephen Griffiths <stephen.griffiths@moc.govt.nz> | 1999/05/13 |
matteo@dotto.usr.dsi.unimi.it (Matteo Vaccari) wrote:
>But why must all "problems" be in the form of "puzzles"? In ordinary
>fiction you wouldn't see the main character spend 40 pages or so in
>trying to get a medicine bottle opened, just to make an example.
Ever read _Foucault's Pendulum_? Remember the Abulafia pro... | Re: An embarrassment of riches? | mythago@agora.rdrop.com (Laurel Halbany) | 1996/03/26 |
>The point is that I'm not a fish like all the other little fishes -- I'm a
>shark.
More lying to yourself.
>And I never pretended to be anything else. Plotkin and Short, on the
>other hand, are little fishes pretending to be Neptunes.
I thought you were accusing the *rest of us* of pretending that Plotkin
and Short... | Re: XYZZY Awards: Best Game/Best Story Differences | "Aris Katsaris" <katsaris@gmail.com> | 8 Apr 2006 17:45:25 -0700 |
"Roberto Grassi" <robgrassi@yahoo.it> wrote in message
news:efb036aecdfc2d36c0c5749f126b2d83.99203@mygate.mailgate.org...
> Is it still supported?
> If so, will it be able to save network games?
The answer to both is "yes, but not for a few weeks" -- we're currently two
days away from our final exams, and so won't be ... | Re: Questions about Zinc | "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk> | Fri, 14 May 2004 13:29:39 +0100 |
Thanks for clearing up the TADS-2 design philosophy on this point. I
guess I should start adding thing.verxxxxx methods for all my verbs...
I still wish there were two levels of verification failure - logical
(strong) failure, and contingent (weak) failure, with contingent
failures being preferred in disambiguation t... | Re: TADS-2: Disambiguation Strangeness | "Yaron" <yaronra@gmail.com> | 22 Nov 2005 12:39:21 -0800 |
On 12 Oct 1996, Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961012003019.5297A-100000@adamant.res.wpi.edu>,
> George Caswell <timbuktu@wpi.edu> wrote:
> }On 11 Oct 1996, Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
> }> Especially when he insulted my choice of computer with the juvenile
> }> and outdated term "macintrash".... | Re: Accessible to the Masses [Was compressing and archiving zcod | George Caswell <timbuktu@adamant.res.wpi.edu> | 1996/10/12 |
You play as Victoria Smort, a very smart 5th grader with her own secret underground laboratory. A laboratory she can’t get to because her twin younger brothers have disrupted her morning routine.
Twiin Trouble is written in Inform. I will provide you a .glorb file and you will need to provide an interpreter yourself.
... | Victoria Smort: Very Smart episode 101 Twiin Trouble seeking beta testers | Jason Dockins | 2024-06-15T01:29:00.928485 |
Hi Matt-
StJohnLimbo is correct, there are several updated deb packages on the threads he mentioned. In particular the greyed out file browser issue you mention was due to a change in GTK libraries regarding the behavior of file type filters applied to a GTK file browser dialog. So there should be no need to chmod y... | Linux and Inform7 | interactivefiction | 2020-02-03T14:02:11.241739 |
I like this kind of game so I made the list to remember all of them. Thanks | Mathbrush ectocomp 2024 reviews | Brian Rushton | 2024-11-06T12:44:25.010242 |
"Mike Roberts" <mjr-SEENOTE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3Tx69.23$R94.160@news.oracle.com...
> "David Thornley" <thornley@visi.com> wrote:
> > [reduced-spoilage spoilers for "Loom"]
> > F
> > R
> > O
> > B
> > O
> > Z
> > Z
> > M
> > A
> > G
> > I
> > C
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> > E
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> > S
> > P
> > A... | Re: Mimesis, the Proustian Madeline, and "old-school" IF: A Question from an old Infocom Fan | "Eytan Zweig" <eytanz@oook.cz> | Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:32:31 +0200 |
/*
* Copyright (C) 2010-2011 ARM Limited. All rights reserved.
*
* This program is free software and is provided to you under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
* as published by the Free Software Foundation, and any use by you of this program is subject to the terms of such GNU licence.
*
* ... | |||
IF (mordacai@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> Well, the judging period is at last over. Does this mean that we
> can now discuss the games
Sure.
Folks, let's do this entirely on rec.games.int-fiction. We *do* have two
distinct newsgroups here; we don't have to crosspost *everything*.
My comments will appear later toda... | Re: COMP97: Reviews? | erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) | 1998/01/01 |
In article <9209230115.AA04131@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu> baker-j@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (john t baker) writes:
>This copyprotection thread has reminded me of when I used to pirate stuff
>(as an early teenager, long ago). Anyway, I buy everything legit now, but
>I remember I used to have a program called ZorkTool. The ... | Re: Copyprotection,etc...ZORKTOOL | friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) | 24 Sep 92 08:54:55 GMT |
Wade, well you should definitely submit yours as soon as you think it's ready.
Emily, yeah I'm happy to maintain all the extensions.
Going forward I'd be happy for contributions from anyone for the built-in extensions, but if possible changes should be either backwards compatible or easy to migrate to. | Menus 3 for Inform 6L38/6L02 | 2015-11-21T05:44:53 | |
federico.gobbo@gmail.com wrote:
>
> years at school but never talked in an English language environment. He
> was a bit disappointed Inform7 isn't in Italian, but I take the
> occasion doing a bit of exercise without being in school.
A localisation of Inform 7 in Italian, based on Inform6, is going on. You'll
still ... | Re: Does exist a ISBN equivalent for IF stories? | Eric Forgeot <use_the_form_on_website_@anamnese.fr.st> | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:58:29 +0100 |
A list of keys:
Some cross-over with the transportation reference, but includes keys used at source, and in key-description order.
Key -- Found -- Used -- Notes
[spoiler][b]Key -- Found -- Used -- Notes[/b]
Allen key – Tunnel Entrance – Tunnel Entrance (hatch)
aluminum key – Backwater Jail – Backwater Jail (evidence l... | Cragne Manor Complete Guide and Walkthrough | null | 2019-01-06T03:18:22 |
Yes! Let us rejoin and rejoice! :smiley: | Any interest in a Los Angeles area meetup? | 2016-08-31T21:50:11 | |
[quote="Destriarch"]
Welp, I'm a bit bored and thought I'd have another crack at this IF lark. I'm fine with the programming (I use Inform v6.3-ish) I'm just casting around for inspiration and stuff. So basically, I'd like people to challenge me!
[/quote]
Here are a some thoughts:
* Write a "classic" style game (like... | Challenge Me! | null | 2008-01-15T23:25:55 |
[quote="auraes, post:2, topic:48305"]
A new system variable sys_statusline_flag is set to 1 initially if you have used the statusline time; directive in your program to show a clock, and to 0 otherwise. It can be changed by the program.
[/quote]
This variable gets its value in ZZInitialise, by reading bit 1 of flags 1... | Z-machine header: time flag | Fredrik Ramsberg | 2020-11-20T13:46:08.907386 |
[quote="tundish, post:6, topic:55884, full:true"]
Please do post your experiences of doing this. Modern cameras give you a lot of detail in the image, so reducing all that information to something structurally simple but still artistically appropriate is an interesting challenge in itself.
[/quote]
In the postmortem f... | Beginner Wants Advice on Best Text Adventure Program Adventuron-Style | B.J. Best | 2022-05-10T22:02:52.93865 |
This brings up a disturbing issue/trend. The best interpreter for PC
is not up-to-date with (arguably) the best IF development program.
Simply horrible and inexcusable.
I found an upgrade on the IF Wiki or Baf's guide (can't remember which
one) containing "updated" git and dluxe executables. Gargoyle still
crashes; ... | Re: Unsupported GLK function in Gargoyle | Dan The Man <danhermle@gmail.com> | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:32:32 -0000 |
I've seen some mention of Twine2, and finally [url=http://twine2.neocities.org/]found this pag[/url]e describing some of the syntax. Is there any other sites, or is this the official definition of the Twine2 syntax? | Ficdown - Writing interactive fiction in Markdown | null | 2014-10-26T08:37:19 |
There are actually quite a number of different 'herpositions', where how my NPC is positioned is crucial--that's not the actual source code of the 'game'. It's kind of an experimental game that I am doing. | Scenery supporters rule | 2018-11-07T13:17:22 | |
Echoing what others said, but since you did mention “talk to”, it may be worth flagging that Inform doesn’t recognize that way of interacting by default - ASK (or sometimes TELL) character ABOUT topic is typically how things are handled out of the box. | NEWBIE needs a bit of general help | Mike Russo | 2020-09-05T16:41:56.179269 |
I haven't played the game in question, so this is not a comment on the game specifically. I also have not read through the whole thread. And I might regret commenting.
But just because someone comes to a different conclusion, doesn't necessarily mean they haven't engaged in self-reflection, or that they don't have va... | Explicit content in games, audience appeal, and solutions? | bg | 2024-07-10T13:05:16.262032 |
kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair) writes:
> Okay, I'm trying to get the nickel in the sewer grate. As far as I can
> tell, it's about the only thing I can do at this point in the game.
> The yardstick will fit through the grate, but you can only move the
> nickel around a bit. So I thought maybe I should atta... | Re: Lost New York - The Nickel of Doom | "Andrew C. Plotkin" <erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> | 1996/03/26 |
Quest 4.1, the text adventure game software for Windows, is now
available from http://www.axeuk.com/quest/download.php
Below is an overview of what's new...
Quest Packager (part of Quest Pro only)
==============
This is a new product that lets you create a setup EXE file for your
game, so your users can install it j... | Quest 4.1 is now available | Alex Warren <alex@axeuk.com> | Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:06:28 -0700 (PDT) |
[quote="Andreas"]
Here's my advice:
Go nuts.
You'll like it.
=)
[/quote]
Second this (and nicely put Andreas!)
If you want to write something in IF, and it makes you happy - rock on. If you work on something with dedication and enthusiasm over time, and build something special, then you can worry less about "what... | Game within the game. | null | 2014-01-07T19:33:16 |
Lake View Lodge Trail Short Loop
Lake View Lodge Trail Short Loop is a 1.4 mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Broken Bow, Oklahoma that features a river. The trail is rated as moderate offers a number of activity options. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
This was (past tens... | |||
On 12/21/2011 07:17 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but so far I haven't figured
> out how to use one of these web forum things as a practical tool
> for keeping abreast of developments in a particular area.
The IF Forum has a "View new posts" link displayed on every page that
gives ... | Re: Paging anyone | Victor Gijsbers <victor@lilith.gotdns.org> | Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:49:44 +0100 |
I know I can cheat my way around it, but can I have a NPC persuade another NPC to do something? I looked around but just couldn't find anything about it. | I7 / Can NPC's order other NPC's around? | null | 2016-08-18T00:16:36 |
Here, Esa A E Peuha <esa.peuha@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com> writes:
>
> > I draw this conclusion from having played most of the IFComp entries
> > (up to 2002) which used LA-style dialogue trees, as well as the ones
> > which used all the other dialogue formats.
>
> What, you call every ... | Re: New author, with some questions. | Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com> | Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:33:41 +0000 (UTC) |
On 04/28/2010 12:29 AM, Erik Temple wrote:
> On Apr 27, 3:57 pm, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
>> I've implemented one of the last* remaining core features: MIDI music
>> support. Once again, OS X testers are needed (hello, Erik :P) since I'm
>> practically deaf in OS X.
>>
>> To test MIDI, you can play "... | Re: Seeking testers for Mac OS X version of new Multimedia Tads
interpreter | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> | Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:01:58 +0300 |
[quote="Juhana"]
Short games aren't in no ways inherently inferior to longer ones. There are many well-liked games that are extremely short (for example Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die.)
[/quote]
You mean shorter than my games? That's impossible. :wink:
[quote]
Nope. By short game I mean little content, and perhaps j... | How long to make a game? | null | 2010-04-05T12:09:58 |
[quote="bcressey"]
[quote="George"]
As Workbench doesn't run on Linux either, what about porting Workbench to a portable framework that would run on Linux and Mac? Or is it generally the case that Linux users wouldn't want Workbench?
[/quote]
I don't know the answer to the general question, except that I can't recall... | TADS3 on the Mac OSX | Emily Boegheim | 2010-05-09T03:43:59 |
[quote="zarf"]
By the way, if you're posting regularly again, do you still want to be "<blank>"?
[/quote]
"Regularly" is a relative term. I'm posting when I'm comfortable and I have something specific and short and definitely non-controversial and helpful to say. My PP persona is more comfortable elsewhere. Thanks for... | HTML in Babel | Peter Piers | 2014-10-25T23:18:32 |
Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com> wrote:
> Here, Irfon-Kim Ahmad <irfon@ambienautica.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I'm wondering about is that now that people have had a little more
>> time with it (or with the iPhone version, I suppose), how have people
>> found it for playing larger games?
>
> I haven't tried serious... | Re: More on iFrotz+iPad | Irfon-Kim Ahmad <irfon@ambienautica.com> | Thu, 06 May 2010 18:44:51 GMT |
Thanks drj.
I had not considered having the actions groupped with the objects that
the actions act on. I have all the commands in alphabetical order as
this is the way the orginial adventure (that I'm converting) is layed
out. I will consider grouping things together as there would be some
advantage.
Regards Brian
dr... | Re: I7 - Using a Inform defined word in a condition | Brian <bclark@es.co.nz> | Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:12:57 +1300 |
I might try sending you my copies of Glk Events and its two dependencies, and then you can see if your "testing" project can boot with those. I just have to change their names back to normal first. I can guarantee the name was all I changed – extensions whose names but not contents I changed I call 'raw' in my WIP.
On... | Trying to compile Version 2/200807 of Glk Events by Dannii Willis | 2023-11-24T11:31:14.190722 | |
berryx@earthlink.net (J. D. Berry) wrote in message news:<ff102855.0111210601.a47b7ed@posting.google.com>...
> Write something yourself? Seriously. We men have to be told
> what works and what doesn't... >;D
>
Write something myself??? Mmmm, interesting. However I suffer from
terminal programming impairment. I ... | Re: [COMP01] Craxton's Comp Critiques | bettymunroe@yahoo.com.au (Betty Munroe) | 21 Nov 2001 15:28:56 -0800 |
Hey guys, long time no post! After a long hiatus I’m back working on a game and it’s coming along pretty nicely.
I wanted to ask a design/aesthetic question: what do you all think of implementing or not implementing smartphones in stories with contemporary settings?
On the one hand, smartphones are ubiquitous, fun... | Smartphones in IF | 2022-06-22T17:52:48.827592 | |
Switching the player is often the right thing to do. I sometimes wish I'd chosen to do my WIP that way, but I ended up doing it more like the Space Patrol example, which is like your Bob T. Hingama except it uses separate containers for carried and worn objects.
But for me, the critical problem with your first attempt... | [solved] Flashback scenes -- how to, the right way? | null | 2011-11-10T04:25:16 |
[quote="Dan Fabulich, post:9, topic:69662, username:dfabulich"]
Another another approach is to try to detect when the player is using brute force, and offer a hint at that point.
[/quote]
This is a feature I tend to favour (as a player), although it can get annoying if the game guesses wrong on what "brute force" look... | Telling the player about the hint system | 2024-07-16T08:34:06.628585 | |
Michael Coyne wrote:
>
>
> What? We're not going to see Shapes in the Comp?
No. too much static from the group. and BTW you never
sent me your latest report on the last release I sent you ! ! !
:) :) :)
| Re: ANNOUNCE:New Inform Game:"Shapes" | Al <radical@qadas.com> | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:17:13 -0600 |
Recently I was thinking about making a new [url=http://ifdb.tads.org/poll?id=p4qh1vqk1a9fhnwn]For Your Consideration Poll[/url] on IFDB for the XYZZY Awards, but I felt uncomfortable making one when I didn't even know when the first round voting would be up. (More selfishly, I really wanna know when we're doing Shuffle... | When are we having the XYZZY Awards this year? | 2014-02-02T22:38:30 | |
In article <4q56ng$dci@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>,
Matthew Neal <mattneal@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this game "cheap"...?
>I have never seen it in any store. It's an older game, it's the sequel
>to "The Secret of Monkey Island". I called LucasArts (1-800-STAR-WARS)
>and they want... | Re: LeChuck's Revenge | dtrg@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Thomas Richard Given) | 1996/06/21 |
Did this not happen on older releases?
Image display has been an ongoing problem -- specifically, managing the images in memory without blowing an allocation somewhere. But I haven't been the one dealing with that code. | Unofficial Gargoyle build for MacOS 10.12 | Andrew Plotkin | 2016-11-28T01:47:33 |
BA984 LHR->TXL 13/June/1998
Certainty level: 100%
In June 1998 I travelled on the above British Airways flight to Berlin
with my mother, to visit her family. There were two women in seats 30D/E,
about 4/5 rows behind us. It was quite obvious from the torrent of abuse
during these flight that these women had been ins... | MI5 Persecution: BA984 LHR->TXL 13/6/98 (1566) | MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk | 17 Nov 2007 03:08:16 GMT |
Well heck why be a player when I could be a GM! Fair warning, I'm not a
terribly experienced GM. However, I have a die-hard interest in telling a
good story. I have a serious interest in producing a commercial work of
interactive fiction at some point in the future, and I see a play-by-e-mail
game as a good vehicle... | EVIL pbem RPG needs players | "Brandon Van Every" <vanevery@blarg.net> | 1998/06/20 |
Like a sky full of locusts
[spoiler]
In 2016 or so, I played D&D over Skype with Ryan and his friends in Australia. I had to get up at 2am and had a lot of fun. We played the beginning of Curse of Strahd and all died. It was fun! This has no bearing on this reviews. I just remembered and it amused me greatly.
I love R... | Taleslinger's Ectocomp reviews | null | 2024-11-27T18:50:04.021007 |
As Halloween approaches, I thought I’d focus this month on creating new tracks that might be useful in Halloween-themed projects (or horror, etc.)
That said, all of this week’s new tracks are on my Horror/Surreal Page:
SHATTERED MIND – Surreal and disturbing, this could be used in all kinds of nightmarish things I’m ... | Sharing My Music and Sound Effects - Over 2000 Tracks | Eric Matyas | 2019-10-09T23:45:39.553965 |
Papillon <papillon_hentai@bigfoot.com> wrote in <i3iervkdji9m624dsem6fhot68de9j9ueo@4ax.com>:
: "Lucian P. Smith" <lpsmith@rice.edu> wrote:
: (sweet dreams, non-spoiler)
:>Rule #1 of being an author of IF: Never, never, never write "No
:>walkthrough is included, since it really shouldn't be necessary."
:>People will... | Re: Lucian's take on Aught-Three comp games | "Lucian P. Smith" <lpsmith@rice.edu> | Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:58:38 +0000 (UTC) |
Followup set to rec.games.int-fiction.
Haiki wrote:
> Hello there! I`d like to play some cool, atmospheric AND
> pretentious horror IF (no cheap "kill zombie" thing please).
> Anyone has a hint? Can be an abandanware classic game or a
> not-commercial TADS-game, it just has to be a good one.
I just finished Anchorhe... | Re: Atmospheric horror adventure | Adrien Beau <adrienbeau@yahoo.guess> | Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:55:29 -0700 |
There is a default style but I’m not up enough on formatting styles. May need to have @DavidG or @Dannii take a peek.
 | I7 highlighting | Hanon Ondricek | 2020-09-26T18:45:38.175061 |
[quote="AmandaB, post:70, topic:60429"]
Like that scene in *The Silence of the Lambs* when [spoiler]the warden shows Clarice the photo of what Lecter did to a nurse. [/spoiler]
[/quote]
One of the things about *The Silence of the Lambs* that I appreciate and laud it for is how it manages to not step over the "camp" lin... | Movie Recommendations and Discussion | Hanon Ondricek | 2023-06-12T03:46:49.604695 |
Three woman paintings
Update: Three woman paintings, they are working out. I have been finding moments to paint. Clem reminds me while she finds a warm spot on the floor in the studio. (Thanks Steve for the great easel). Three woman paintings, 30″ x 40″, acrylic on canvas. I have been going to a open sketch group and ... | |||
I use something like this.
[code]
Test all with "test first / test second / test third / test fourth / test fifth / test sixth / test seventh / test eighth / test ninth / test tenth".
[/code]
Here, the sub tests have part of the walk through allowing you go quickly get to a particular point in a game. I then also use... | Ways to test your walkthrough? | 2013-06-04T18:38:08 | |
When I try to run the cures.z5 file with Mac MaxZip I get an error message
like "PC ERROR a1a1a1" or something. please help.
--
mreardon@kear.tdsnet.com
_-_-_-
"Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of
work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under it's own n... | cures.z5 interpreter problem | mreardon@kear.tdsnet.com (Reardon) | 1995/12/16 |
ACCEPTED
01-15-00303-CR
FIRST COURT OF APPEALS
... | null | null | null |
Some are born Tommaso Caldarola. Some achieve Tommaso Caldarola. But
rec.arts.int-fiction had Tommaso Caldarola thrust upon it:
> Jaap van der Velde wrote:
>
> > I am writing a piece of IF, but the Z file is steadily
> > growing, even though it's mostly text and dialogue I'm
> > adding. What can I do to limit the siz... | Re: [Inform] Keeping Z files relatively small | Adam Biltcliffe <abiltcliffe@bigfoot.__NOHORMELPRODUCTS__.com> | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:16:13 -0000 |
Yeah, that's where the discussion started. | Patreon, Kickstarter, International Tax Laws [split] | Andrew Plotkin | 2023-11-17T00:26:57.604459 |
some aspects of my reply will surprise old-timers, whose surely remember my critique of late Panks's taste in colouring his works, but I consider myself a pioneer of using "enhanced text" (beginning in C64 era, I discovered, mid-80s that appropriate POKE 53280 and/or POKE 53281 enhances the narration, go figure that th... | Do multimedia and hyperlinks/buttons/etc really make parser IF more accessible or improve it as an art form in any way? | Piergiorgio d'errico | 2023-06-30T09:50:14.786532 |
Felix wrote:
> The pronouns aren't set automatically to the last
> object described. The author can do it manually in some
> circumstances, but it's a burden (another one?!) so it's not often
> done. It stumps me all too often as a player.
Personally, I'm not sure I would like that. As a player, I prefer having
pro... | Re: One-on-One IF | "Michel Nizette" <Michel@Nizette.name> | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:47:39 +0100 |
Roddy Ramieson wrote in message
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>
> So... join us at http://www.aas-ta.com and download your copy
> of the interpreter and games today! Then, download the IDE
> and make your own games!
Uhm, is it for real or just a joke? The above site takes forever to load
(ev... | Re: The Advanced Authoring System! | "Nikos Chantziaras" <for.spam@manager.de> | Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:28:42 +0300 |
There was a program on the classical music radio station about medieval choral singing. While I was listening to the amazing singing, I suddenly flashed back to the scene in <i>Pentiment</i> where the monks are barricaded in the monastery library and you can convince one of them to sing to comfort his brothers.
That ... | Pentiment! (spoilery conversation) | Rovarsson | 2024-12-20T22:32:38.443988 |
A comercial precedent:
[center][url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/222/dscn1345.jpg/][img]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9201/dscn1345.th.jpg[/img][/url][/center]
[url=http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=m2wl06w0irs8vgdc]MIndshadow[/url], edited by Activision in 1984, included a tutorial as a separate load fro... | Tutorials | null | 2011-11-04T09:05:20 |
[quote="Hatless"]
I may have suffered from a misconception as how Shufflecomp operated. From the announcement thread:
[quote="maga"]
The deadline for submitting your game will be May 1. After that, there'll be a short testing period; final versions must be submitted by May 12, and the games will be published shortly t... | A magical unicorn pony for future shufflecomps? | Chris Conley | 2014-05-14T22:48:21 |
Just starting using HUGO this week. Looks good.
| Re: Hugo | cjloving@mindspring.com (Bruce D. Loving) | 1999/04/11 |
Some sample code given in 6.8: Reading and Talking offers:
In the Grove is a book of sybilline verses.
After consulting the book about "grove", say "The Grove is a sacred
yadda, yadda. There's a tree, that sort of thing. Wisdom."
After consulting the book about "future events", say "It's a bit,
what's the word? Delp... | I7: "Consult about" exactness | "John H." <JohnWH@gmail.com> | 6 Jun 2006 22:59:08 -0700 |
Hey guys, thanks for that, it's really working well. By the way, at the moment I have a bunch of clothes with randomly assigned descriptions based on variables (e.g. hat style) and I have come up against a bit of an in game problem. If my character picks up a hat with the 'red' and 'bowler' variables it will be describ... | Swapping clothes | null | 2015-02-22T12:02:27 |
Q:
Schema Registry read-only copy
we have 2 different Data-centers (DC-A and DC-B) with no connectivity between them. Actually only inbound traffic is allowed to DC-B from DC-A. we have schema-registry setup in DC-A, and we would like to get a replica running in DC-B.
What are the options? Can I setup a new instance ... | |||
This is me reaching out. | Seeking a beta tester or two for a short, simple Inform 7 game | Jason Dockins | 2021-03-19T02:11:52.95114 |
Peter Mattsson <peter.mattsson@lineone.net> wrote in news:d4e79b82-460d-
4364-9ae5-ef1a9e7fe573@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
> Flaxo is a new, Flash 9-based Z-Machine interpreter. It's only about
> 70% complete right now, but it's usable for most games (if you don't
> mind the lack of save, restore, undo or restart fu... | Re: [Announce] Flaxo, the Flash-based Z-Machine interpreter | Emily Boegheim <emily.boegheim@gmail.com> | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:46:07 +0100 (CET) |
[quote="zarf"]
The difficult problems are the second-order problems. Say you have a point in the game where an NPC takes an item from you and leaves. You have to add a clause dealing with the case of the item being tied, and perhaps another dealing with the NPC being tied. Or if chapter 2 starts with the player in a g... | Ropes in IF | Daniel Stelzer | 2014-02-14T20:09:20 |
Verizon rolling out 4.0.4 OTA for the Galaxy Nexus
Nexus owners, mark your calendars: it’s been exactly five and a half months since the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released exclusively on Verizon in the United States. In that time the phone has received one and only one official update, to Android 4.0.2…. which was almo... | |||
Thanks! | [I7] Arithmatic... wait, this can't be right? | 2012-09-21T23:38:52 | |
I guess in that sense, Textfyre is an S-Corp and still sells copies of Secret Letter and Shadow (not many, but they trickle in every few months). I have an iOS version of Shadow nearly done using iosglulx and a Windows 8 Store version nearing completion.
I dread ever doing anything with Secret Letter since the I7 code... | Will a new IF company work now? | null | 2013-04-16T20:54:25 |
Depends on my mood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwM3cUJKkuE | Player poll regarding parser deaths. (Nothing spicy, just getting a gauge for typical behavior.) | Mike | 2024-07-01T20:36:07.902156 |
I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with the "listed" property, but objects already have a property "described" or "undescribed" that can be changed at will. | hide things in item list | null | 2018-07-02T21:03:48 |
"Stuart Moore" <NO@SPAM.PLEASE> wrote in message
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> Fergus Mcneill wrote:
>> "J. J. Guest" <jason.guest@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:026671ab-0d22-4b7a-8070-85a9d4379f0f@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> What do you want for free? Your a leech on the back of peop... | Re: Z-machine vs Glulx | "Fergus Mcneill" <CiderKnight@yahoo.co.uk> | Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:12:16 +0100 |
Dear all,
is there a list anywhere which depicts all spells from Infocom's magic system and their descriptions? Only link I found is [quendor.robinlionheart.com/spells](http://quendor.robinlionheart.com/spells) and that seems to be dead.
Thanks and kind regards,
Grue | Infocom Spells | null | 2011-07-05T08:34:26 |
Assignment #29 Get Low...
This weeks assignment should give interesting results...all you have to do is take pics, but from ground level...so either use a mini tripod, or put your camera on your camera bag and take the shot...I thought this might be a good assignment as some of us may tend to take shots from eye level... | null | null | null |
Views from a United Church of Christ Minister
Friday, September 10, 2010
President Obama: "It’s just us.”
President Obama spoke this morning at a press conference about 9/11, the threat by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Qur'an and the building of a Mosque in New York City. His words were appropriate. The pre... | null | null | null |
Matt Kimball <mkimball@xmission.com> wrote:
> Sure, it would be nice if he would make some statement.
However, I wouldn't want him to prematurely make some statment that
might not be accurate. If he is undecided, waiting may be the best
bet.
> It would also
> be nice if Inform had a more free license.
Frankl... | Re: A fable (was Re: [Inform] future) | jonadab@zerospam.com (Jonadab the Unsightly One) | 1998/11/17 |
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