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The Digital Antiquarian has a good article about Roberta Williams: https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/ https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-rober
by PlunderBunny 2y ago
The Digital Antiquarian has a good article about Roberta Williams:
https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/ https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/
- BizarroLand 2y agothis triggered a memory in me. The term "filfre" is a spell in the enchanter text based series from infocom, taken from the response when another editor wanted to make changes on some code. "Feel free". I tried to search it to find something to back this up but I am coming up empty, but I did find the original use for the spell: “The filfre spell – cause gratuitous fireworks to appear” It is otherwise useless in the game save for entertainment factor.
- PlunderBunny 2y agoI'm pretty sure I've read on his blog that the site name is indeed taken from a spell in an Infocom text adventure, but I can't remember where he wrote that.