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One of the annoying things about TADS games from the user perspective was the limited selection of interpreters, because it wasn't open source. The Z-machine in
by KerrAvon 4y ago
One of the annoying things about TADS games from the user perspective was the limited selection of interpreters, because it wasn't open source. The Z-machine interpreters could be pretty nice and were widely available.
> TADS projects to be recompiled so that the VM hosts a web server
I don't know how long ago that was, but it wasn't always obvious that moving everything to JavaScript was the way to go for stuff like this. At one point that might have been a reasonable technical choice.
- anthk 4y agoWell, Inform6-7 and the Z-Machine from mainframes like the TOPS20 OS from Ka10 made in the 70's to pocket devices with Android/iOS wins by a huge margin on freedom and sharing the game to near anywhere. And with Puny Inform you could adapt a relatively small game to even the Commodore 64.