Re: [kidsgames] Story based games???

[Alex V Flinsch <avflinsch@att.net>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 
> But on a practical note, while you guys are discussing how
> to implement a game for kids, please remember something --
> speed _does_ matter, because kids are often using older, 
> hand-me-down equipment.  (e.g., my kids are still using 
> a 486).  Older games run fine on these machines, so it's 
> worth it.  
> 

In addition to being slower, these machines may also have limited memory and
video capabilites also. 



> 
> Oh, BTW, I assume you know about:
> XZip - a Z-machine interpreter.

Personally, I prefer frotz as a zcode interpreter, but xzip works well also. 


> Plays Z-machine files of versions 1-5 and version 8.

and the zcode files can be created with inform. 

-- 
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

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