Hi Tom.
I agree with all of this, and though I never got to play those dos text
adventures back in the 90's, ---- mostly simply because I didn't know such
things existed for pc computers (a pc was for working on after all), I have
played several sinse, in fact as you know at the moment I'm beta testing
Eamon deluxe, and some of the adventures produced for that platform are
really exceptional, especially because Eamon has so few verbs to use, simply
"get glass" and "drink glass" when you want to drink the water will do.
the only issue with eamon at the moment, is that though the graphical
version will! be multiplatform, because dosbox and screen readers won't
cooperate, the only way of running it is through the windows console, which
won't work on 64 bit windows. I know Frank is trying to find a way around
this, but nothing has come up as yet.
As you know I've largely given up on playing if these days sinse the puzzles
and such just got too frustrating when I want to continue with the story.
I actually very much want to write an text rpg of some sort myself, though
whether that would mean learning python, bgt or some other language, or just
using the eamon dungeon designer and learning enough basic to add what
specials I want I'm not sure.
I do have an rpg and complete combat system in mind in my brain, it's just a
case of finding the best avinue to make it work when i have time.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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