• Inform 7

    From virtuadept@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 20 09:31:31 2018
    Hello, Sailor!

    Long time, no read. I am a former participant of this group pre-2004 era. The last thing I remember doing was trying desperately to learn Inform 4 I think? I still have the manual around here somewhere. At the time I didn't have much to write about. But
    I'm older now. Wiser. A father. I have a story to tell.

    The last game I started playing (and probably didn't finish) in the IF world was probably Slouching Towards Bedlam after the 2003 IFComp.

    I am hoping there are still folks interested in discussion of Inform 7. I downloaded it today and was, well, lets just say "You've come a long way, baby." I checked on inform7.com and the latest news post is May 2014, so that was a little disconcerting.

    I'm just wanting to socialize with people who are still using Inform 7. Or if for some reason the community has strayed from that platform, what are your own personal suggestions for a development platform for writing interactive fiction?

    My current related skill set includes:

    O.G. - "Original Gamester" since Zork was released on the "Trash 80". So, no, I wasn't at MIT, but I was like, 11 or something.

    RPG - Not the rocket launcher or that ancient language from Big Blue, I'm talking about role-playing games, since "White Box" '77 era.

    C#.NET - Actively using daily in enterprise 4+ million lines of code web application that I helped build from 0 starting 2013.

    MS-SQL - Slinging queries since 1997 in Sybase and MS flavors.

    "Web Stuff" - JS/Jquery/CSS/HTML - Just for debugging and minor fixes, really, not fluent enough to design this.

    Maybe 20 ish other programming languages enough to read, debug, and fix it. PowerBuilder enough to design, but only version 11 or earlier, because that's the version I last used (Winforms client-server style).

    English - uh, self evident? Working on Espanol, but so far no hablo muy beuno.

    Avid Reader - A book a day keeps the brain fog away!

    Literate - Basically, I mean, I don't write for a living, but uh, yeah.

    Interpreters - I've written a few of these but it's been a long time.

    Parsers - I've worked with this enough to know I don't want to build these from scratch.

    I'm not trying to write a resume here, just trying to let anyone who might read this know I'm not a complete n00b. And I just noticed that every sentence in this post has "I" in it. I'm not actually as narcissistic as I probably look in this post. How
    are YOU doing today? :)

    So please, folks, if you have any suggestions, news, advice, or can just point me in the direction of fine folks who *may* be interested in a bearded old fart who might know a thing or two about gaming and stuff, I would be grateful.

    Thank you if you made it this far, you are a true saint!

    -=- VirtuAdept -=-

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  • From fos1@21:1/5 to virtuadept on Sun Oct 21 06:15:38 2018
    On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-5, virtuadept wrote:
    Hello, Sailor!

    Long time, no read. I am a former participant of this group pre-2004 era. The last thing I remember doing was trying desperately to learn Inform 4 I think? I still have the manual around here somewhere. At the time I didn't have much to write about.
    But I'm older now. Wiser. A father. I have a story to tell.

    The last game I started playing (and probably didn't finish) in the IF world was probably Slouching Towards Bedlam after the 2003 IFComp.

    I am hoping there are still folks interested in discussion of Inform 7. I downloaded it today and was, well, lets just say "You've come a long way, baby." I checked on inform7.com and the latest news post is May 2014, so that was a little disconcerting.


    I'm just wanting to socialize with people who are still using Inform 7. Or if for some reason the community has strayed from that platform, what are your own personal suggestions for a development platform for writing interactive fiction?

    My current related skill set includes:

    O.G. - "Original Gamester" since Zork was released on the "Trash 80". So, no, I wasn't at MIT, but I was like, 11 or something.

    RPG - Not the rocket launcher or that ancient language from Big Blue, I'm talking about role-playing games, since "White Box" '77 era.

    C#.NET - Actively using daily in enterprise 4+ million lines of code web application that I helped build from 0 starting 2013.

    MS-SQL - Slinging queries since 1997 in Sybase and MS flavors.

    "Web Stuff" - JS/Jquery/CSS/HTML - Just for debugging and minor fixes, really, not fluent enough to design this.

    Maybe 20 ish other programming languages enough to read, debug, and fix it. PowerBuilder enough to design, but only version 11 or earlier, because that's the version I last used (Winforms client-server style).

    English - uh, self evident? Working on Espanol, but so far no hablo muy beuno.

    Avid Reader - A book a day keeps the brain fog away!

    Literate - Basically, I mean, I don't write for a living, but uh, yeah.

    Interpreters - I've written a few of these but it's been a long time.

    Parsers - I've worked with this enough to know I don't want to build these from scratch.

    I'm not trying to write a resume here, just trying to let anyone who might read this know I'm not a complete n00b. And I just noticed that every sentence in this post has "I" in it. I'm not actually as narcissistic as I probably look in this post. How
    are YOU doing today? :)

    So please, folks, if you have any suggestions, news, advice, or can just point me in the direction of fine folks who *may* be interested in a bearded old fart who might know a thing or two about gaming and stuff, I would be grateful.

    Thank you if you made it this far, you are a true saint!

    -=- VirtuAdept -=-

    Good morning VirtuAdept,

    The best place for IF discussion these days is: https:intfiction.org/forum

    Regards from a similar time, (Coherent, TRS-80, etc.)
    fos1

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  • From Kerr-Mudd,John@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 22 16:41:03 2018
    On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:31:31 GMT, virtuadept <knight37m@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Hello, Sailor!

    Long time, no read. I am a former participant of this group pre-2004
    era. The last thing I remember doing was trying desperately to learn
    Inform 4 I think? I still have the manual around here somewhere. At
    the time I didn't have much to write about. But I'm older now. Wiser.
    A father. I have a story to tell.

    The last game I started playing (and probably didn't finish) in the IF
    world was probably Slouching Towards Bedlam after the 2003 IFComp.

    I am hoping there are still folks interested in discussion of Inform
    7. I downloaded it today and was, well, lets just say "You've come a
    long way, baby." I checked on inform7.com and the latest news post is
    May 2014, so that was a little disconcerting.

    I'm just wanting to socialize with people who are still using Inform
    7. Or if for some reason the community has strayed from that platform,
    what are your own personal suggestions for a development platform for
    writing interactive fiction?

    My current related skill set includes:

    O.G. - "Original Gamester" since Zork was released on the "Trash 80".
    So, no, I wasn't at MIT, but I was like, 11 or something.

    RPG - Not the rocket launcher or that ancient language from Big Blue,
    I'm talking about role-playing games, since "White Box" '77 era.

    C#.NET - Actively using daily in enterprise 4+ million lines of code
    web application that I helped build from 0 starting 2013.

    MS-SQL - Slinging queries since 1997 in Sybase and MS flavors.

    "Web Stuff" - JS/Jquery/CSS/HTML - Just for debugging and minor fixes, really, not fluent enough to design this.

    Maybe 20 ish other programming languages enough to read, debug, and
    fix it. PowerBuilder enough to design, but only version 11 or earlier, because that's the version I last used (Winforms client-server style).

    English - uh, self evident? Working on Espanol, but so far no hablo
    muy beuno.

    Avid Reader - A book a day keeps the brain fog away!

    Literate - Basically, I mean, I don't write for a living, but uh,
    yeah.

    Interpreters - I've written a few of these but it's been a long time.

    Parsers - I've worked with this enough to know I don't want to build
    these from scratch.

    I'm not trying to write a resume here, just trying to let anyone who
    might read this know I'm not a complete n00b. And I just noticed that
    every sentence in this post has "I" in it. I'm not actually as
    narcissistic as I probably look in this post. How are YOU doing today?
    :)

    So please, folks, if you have any suggestions, news, advice, or can
    just point me in the direction of fine folks who *may* be interested
    in a bearded old fart who might know a thing or two about gaming and
    stuff, I would be grateful.

    Thank you if you made it this far, you are a true saint!

    -=- VirtuAdept -=-


    retro old bloke here; I was taken by the original Wumpus and Advent back
    when computer power cost Money. Generally Usenet is well, quiet apart
    from trolls and somwe same-old infighting from 30 years back.

    news:Alt.Folklore.Computers is still mostly OK.

    BOF are welcome in news:uk.rec.sheds, but it can get a bit wierd. (esp
    with ROT13 usage).

    Subscribe away!

    --
    Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

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  • From Jorin Gedamke@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 9 13:57:19 2018
    retro old bloke here; I was taken by the original Wumpus and Advent back when computer power cost Money. Generally Usenet is well, quiet apart
    from trolls and somwe same-old infighting from 30 years back.

    news:Alt.Folklore.Computers is still mostly OK.

    BOF are welcome in news:uk.rec.sheds, but it can get a bit wierd. (esp
    with ROT13 usage).

    Subscribe away!

    --
    Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

    I'm a newcomer to IF. Saw it, thought "Well, I love both writing and games, so why not?", and here I am! Besides Inform 7, I'm also taking a course in Godot Engine. (The first exercise is a Mad Lids-style game. Maybe something similar can be done with
    Inform?)

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  • From Kerr-Mudd,John@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 10 11:03:02 2018
    On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 21:57:19 GMT, Jorin Gedamke <jgedri@gmail.com>
    wrote:


    retro old bloke here; I was taken by the original Wumpus and Advent
    back

    when computer power cost Money. Generally Usenet is well, quiet apart
    from trolls and somwe same-old infighting from 30 years back.

    news:Alt.Folklore.Computers is still mostly OK.

    BOF are welcome in news:uk.rec.sheds, but it can get a bit wierd.
    (esp with ROT13 usage).

    Subscribe away!

    --
    Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

    I'm a newcomer to IF. Saw it, thought "Well, I love both writing and
    games, so why not?", and here I am! Besides Inform 7, I'm also taking
    a course in Godot Engine. (The first exercise is a Mad Lids-style
    game. Maybe something similar can be done with Inform?)


    I've never gone beyond looking at some code in Inform 7, sorry. I'm
    mostly here just for nostalgia.


    --
    Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

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