Re: text adventures
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:
> Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> writes:
>
> > If a free game, written in Inform, were available in source form, it
> > could still not go in main, but only in contrib.
> > ...
> > There are several free and non-free publically available interpreters,
> > which can be used either to play the original non-free Infocom games,
> > or any of the more or less free Inform-compiled games. 'xzip' is free
> > and is in main;
> If a free interpreter exists, can't free games go to main?
I think that was the original question. The problem is that the only
compiler from a high level language to infocom z-code is non-free.
(Actually, I haven't been able to find any games without a "no
commercial distribution" clause.)
The game files themselves are essentially byte code compiled from some
higher level language.
Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu
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