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From: u943961@student.canberra.edu.au (Mah / Nick (MGM))
Subject: Re: Zork, the original three.
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 06:11:30 GMT
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In article <D5Aq0o.HC0@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Steppin [MOF][DUMF] <grruffin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Yeah, I gave them the text files for the Encyclopedia a year or two ago, but
Much thanks <assorted grovels :>

>I never got to see what they did with it. Last time I went there, ZorkMUD was
>unplayable, at least as far as somebody like me who only knew how to deal with
And it still is Unplayable :) .. god verbs are horrid .. getting a decent 
tie/untie to work, for instance <shiver> ... (so that it works on more 
than just the wooden railing, with spiffy error messages, that is ;)

Minor setbacks include the fact that the entire parser is being rewritten,
I'm an LPC novice, the driver is being changed from Amylaar to MudOS, and a 
significant  percentage of our imm team have apparantly fallen down bottomless
pits.

Work _is_ progressing on ZorkMUD, unfortunately some of us have lives, some
of the time :P .. still, puzzles are being designed and being implemented to
various degrees, and it should be open round about the same time Avalon2 is
released ...

On the bright side, however, the overall plot has been roughly worked out,
at least one puzzle is in fully working order, I'm slowly learning the 
horrors of LPC, and the new parser is supposedly nearly ready.


Ohara@lestat.shv.hb.se 7890 
-- 
That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language, that the
men children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to learn. And in
that version of the tale perhaps things happened differently. But then, that is
a woman's tale and is never taught to men. (Gaiman/ "The Doll's House")
