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SEEKING WORK | US/Boston area | REMOTE preferred Portfolio: https://zarfhome.com/portfolio/ Github: https://github.com/erkyrath Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-plotkin…

Thanks for the nitter.net pointer -- I wasn't aware of that. That will be helpful. I know (in principle) how to use curl to send an authenticated API request via HTTP. That's authe…

Infocom used "interactive fiction" as the marketing tag for their games. You can easily see this on their box covers. I believe they started using the label with the "grey box" pac…

Hi! Thanks for the thread. :) I'll accumulate a bunch of replies here, if that's okay... First, I apologize for having a web page that implies that I haven't done any IF since 2017…

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I wanna expand on this, in relation to Hadean Lands. I wrote HL in Inform 7. Could I have written the game in a more traditional IF language, such as Inform 6? (I6 is C-like.) Answ…

Hey. Glad people are enjoying this old thing again. Some notes: - Source code: http://eblong.com/zarf/ftp/lists.tar.Z - The Scheme engine that this implements is really small -- ab…

Hey. This is me. I hope I was not that much of a dick, but at that point I wasn't interested in making money off old IF. I don't remember the specific incident, though. (I'm still …