SEEKING WORK | US/Boston area | REMOTE preferred Portfolio: https://zarfhome.com/portfolio/ Github: https://github.com/erkyrath Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-plotkin-775881355/ Email: zjob at eblong.com…
Thanks for the nitter.net pointer -- I wasn't aware of that. That will be helpful. I know (in principle) how to use curl to send an authenticated API request via HTTP. That's authenticated; you have to log in. I already…
Infocom used "interactive fiction" as the marketing tag for their games. You can easily see this on their box covers. I believe they started using the label with the "grey box" packages in 1984. I don't know how much…
Hi! Thanks for the thread. :) I'll accumulate a bunch of replies here, if that's okay... First, I apologize for having a web page that implies that I haven't done any IF since 2017. Cragne Manor actually came out in…
The searchable (and generally nicer) view of the Archive: http://ifdb.tads.org/
I wanna expand on this, in relation to Hadean Lands. I wrote HL in Inform 7. Could I have written the game in a more traditional IF language, such as Inform 6? (I6 is C-like.) Answer: yes, but it would have been a bunch…
Hey. Glad people are enjoying this old thing again. Some notes: - Source code: http://eblong.com/zarf/ftp/lists.tar.Z - The Scheme engine that this implements is really small -- about 10k of heap. (This is a Z-code…
Hey. This is me. I hope I was not that much of a dick, but at that point I wasn't interested in making money off old IF. I don't remember the specific incident, though. (I'm still not very interested in making money off…
SEEKING WORK | US/Boston area | REMOTE preferred Portfolio: https://zarfhome.com/portfolio/ Github: https://github.com/erkyrath Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-plotkin-775881355/ Email: zjob at eblong.com…
Thanks for the nitter.net pointer -- I wasn't aware of that. That will be helpful. I know (in principle) how to use curl to send an authenticated API request via HTTP. That's authenticated; you have to log in. I already…
Infocom used "interactive fiction" as the marketing tag for their games. You can easily see this on their box covers. I believe they started using the label with the "grey box" packages in 1984. I don't know how much…
Hi! Thanks for the thread. :) I'll accumulate a bunch of replies here, if that's okay... First, I apologize for having a web page that implies that I haven't done any IF since 2017. Cragne Manor actually came out in…
The searchable (and generally nicer) view of the Archive: http://ifdb.tads.org/
I wanna expand on this, in relation to Hadean Lands. I wrote HL in Inform 7. Could I have written the game in a more traditional IF language, such as Inform 6? (I6 is C-like.) Answer: yes, but it would have been a bunch…
Hey. Glad people are enjoying this old thing again. Some notes: - Source code: http://eblong.com/zarf/ftp/lists.tar.Z - The Scheme engine that this implements is really small -- about 10k of heap. (This is a Z-code…
Hey. This is me. I hope I was not that much of a dick, but at that point I wasn't interested in making money off old IF. I don't remember the specific incident, though. (I'm still not very interested in making money off…