Re: Limitations of Inform


Sun, 12 Nov 1995 19:18:00 -0500

DMB>OK, how about:

DMB>What are reasonable hardware requirements for IF?

DMB>f. Don't care, as long as the end product is tangibly superior.

I should qualify this. I think the program should run on the lowest
possible machine it could. Meaning if there is nothing in the game code
that can't run a TRS-80, it should be able to run on a TRS-80. This
means that the interpreter would have to run on that machine too.
However, if a game uses a sophisticated AI that won't run on anything
less then a 386, I see no problem with making that game.

The upshot of all this is that whatever interpreter you're using should
be available on a wide variety of machines, since there are people out
there who are still quite happy with C-64s and don't want to go out and
get anything higher. (I know a couple of them.)

Joe

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