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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Programming Savvy IF Newbie asks TADS or Inform????  HELP!!!
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David Brinkley (adcarnev@unix.amherst.edu) wrote:
> A. Keyton Weissinger (keytonw@mindspring.com) wrote:

> : possible in both systems?). I also hope to work with whoever is brave
> : enough to port either system to Win95 (WITH A GUI, I mean, -- maybe even a
> : Visual TADS or Visual Inform, or something).

> Bah on your Win95. One prays that the good Mr. Plotkin shall one day find the
> time and resources to do Mac Visual Inform.

I've never used Visual Basic, so I don't know exactly what this entails. 
I've used Mac C compilers with a GUI (see all my ranting about Metrowerks 
in the "professional languages" thread.) They're nice, but there isn't a 
*whole* lot that's applicable to Inform. 

Let's see... project window which lets you drag files in and double-click
to bring them up in your editor. Dialog boxes to set compiler options
(which would otherwise be set in the IFC file.) Interactive source-level 
debugger... (TADS has facilities for such a thing, of course.)

I know that Robert Pelak (the current Mac Inform supporter) is not 
unaware of these possibilities, but he runs out of free time too. :)

--Z


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