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From: msphil@aardvark.cc.wm.edu (Michael S. Phillips)
Subject: Re: Dealing with judges who can't run TADS
Message-ID: <1995Oct12.203805.14663@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Keywords: green fuzzy bananas
Sender: msphil@gateway.lawlib.wm.edu (Michael S. Phillips)
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
References: <GDR11.95Oct11122451@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk> <GDR11.95Oct11201918@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk> <DGCJt6.7I5@ansoft.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:38:05 GMT
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In article <DGCJt6.7I5@ansoft.com>, palmer@ansoft.com (Palmer Davis) writes:
|> 
|> Even better, we could set up a machine on the net somewhere with a 
|> public account with a restricted shell and a directory containing the 
|> entries, a Z machine interpreter, the TADS runtime, and run times for 
|> any other system that authors might use (AGT?  ADVSYS?).  Anyone not 
|> able to run TADS on their own machine could telnet in at their own l
|> eisure to evaluate the TADS entries.  Make it something plain vanilla
|> (like a SPARC running SunOS 4.1.x) and known in advance, and just
|> about any system could be accomodated.

It occurs to me that someone with a Linux box who is feeling pretty friendly 
and trusting could easily setup rocat or another BBS software and offer the 
games as doors.  In fact, when I was playing around with rocat a few months 
ago, I did exactly this (although the games were curses, balances, and 
minizork) as an experiment.

Since a current TADS run-time exists for Linux, this is certainly a possibility.
If our campus backbone is brought up in time, I might even do it myself :-)

Just a thought,

    Mike Phillips, msphil@aardvark.cc.wm.edu
