Re: Dealing with judges who can't run TADS
Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:04:33 -0400
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.
Sigh. You win. Add some riggery to allow people to save games in
personal directories (purely to avoid namespace collision -- there's
no reason to worry about security issues, I think).
Well, not everyone who can read Usenet can telnet. I think. Is there
anyone out there who voted this year but could not use the setup
described above?
--Z
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."