Hi Orin, Well, as for an accessible Adrift interpretor for Mac there is scare. It seems to be universally accessible on all the major platforms it is compiled for.
However, the Adrift Generator is a Windows only product. I've been trying to find a non-Windows clone of the Adrift Generator, but haven't found one. Only a few clones of the runner such as Rogue and Scare. That said, a person can manually write taf files by hand since most of it is just html type tags and a few Adrift commands. Although, I'm pretty sure that's not the answer you were looking for. Cheers! On 4/28/11, Orin <orin8...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder, is there something like Adrift for Mac? I want to create games > and yes, even though Inform seems easy, it still feels like programming to > me and there's rules to follow that I just can't remember at the moment. > I think doing complex things like random events is easier in Adrift than > Inform. > > > > Orin > orin8...@gmail.com > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks > Skype: orin1112 > > > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: > >> Hi Florian, >> >> Well, the problem with text scrolling off the screen is actually to do >> with the game itself not with scare or the Adrift runner. There is a >> tag developer is suppose to use to prevent this issue called the >> <waitkey> tag but some developers, especially those who use the Adrift >> runner itself, often fail to do this. They usually assume you can >> scroll using the mouse and tend to do that than properly tag the >> message to stop before it scrolls off screen. So there isn't much we >> can do but contact the developer and let him/her know that the text is >> scrolling off screen and nicely ask him/her to update the game using >> the <waitkey> tag so only x number of lines are shown at a time. >> >> As for Jaws scripting that's not something i can explain by e-mail. >> Jaws has scripting classes you can take that will give you >> professional training how to do that. I myself learned it on my own >> just by looking at their scripts and figuring out how it works. Since >> I was a computer science student at the time with some computer >> programming experience behind me I was able to train myself. You may >> or may not be able to do it the way I did it. >> >> That said maybe you can try a simplar approach by using frames or >> something like that. I did something similar in Window-Eyes by using a >> user window that announces the text every time it changes on screen. >> I'm pretty sure the Jaws frame manager has a similar functionality. >> >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> On 4/27/11, Florian-achtige <florianbeij...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> Sorry if this ends up wrong in the thread sorting ...I'm reading the >>> group using digests so i can't directly reply to messages. >>> ANyway, >>> Thanks for that suggestion. I did use this program in the past once, >>> but i saw that it sometimes ' scrolled too fast' . Meaning, in my use >>> of the program it sometimes happened i missed a big chunk of text if >>> the output was longer than a certain number of lines. I don't know if >>> that has to do with scare or with the command prompt itself, and if >>> you have suggestions on how to fix it, kindly let me know. >>> You mentioned having to write jaws scripts to make this behavior >>> normal in adrift ...how would one go about that? I've looked at jaws >>> scripting briefly in the past but I'm curious. 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