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From: zephyr@oracle (zephyr)
Subject: Re: Linux port of Hugo coming soon
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>>>>> "Gareth" == Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
   Gareth> Speaking of portability, do any of the people who port the
   Gareth> Infocom interpreter ZIP (or indeed anyone else) fancy attempting
   Gareth> to write a Z-code interpreter that runs as a "Java applet" under
   Gareth> Sun's "HotJava" web browser (see http://java.sun.com/ for
   Gareth> details)?

Why don't you just write a little daemon to watch a port, hook up a socket,
then spawn whatever interpreter you like?  Then anyone with telnet could
play your game, and nobody needs Hot Java.  Which, as I understand it, only
runs on Suns so far.  And I thought the aim here was getting something
anyone could run?

I've never actually done this, but it seems easy enough. (famous last words)
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