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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Linux port of Hugo coming soon
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:26:22 GMT
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In article <GDR11.95Aug1185058@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Speaking of portability, do any of the people who port the Infocom
>interpreter ZIP (or indeed anyone else) fancy attempting to write a
>Z-code interpreter that runs as a "Java applet" under Sun's "HotJava"
>web browser (see http://java.sun.com/ for details)?
>
>Playing adventure games directly over the Internet, without having to go
>to all the bother of downloading the right kind of interpreter,
>unzipping it, compiling it, and so on, could be a growth area...

That sounds like a pretty good idea.  I don't know much about Java 
besides the fact it's Sun's and its applet concept.  I'll poke around 
java.sun.com and see what kind of requirements it has.   (I can probably 
develop here at school, or at least when I finish my internship at MS.)

/Steve

