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>>       Could a complete (but not necessacarily TADS-like) adventure
>> system be created in three weeks?  I suppose, depending on how much
>> experience and code you had lying around to use.  I, personally, have
>> spent over a year on mine, but if I were to start over I could re-
>> produce what I have now in, say, a month of part-time work.  Given that,
>> I'd be willing to believe that a system could be put together in three
>> weeks.  In 18K?  I'd have to see it to believe it.  So, apparently,
>> does Dave.
>
>Thank you for believing that much.  I have lots and lots of code lieing
>around, as I said.  Part of it was used.  The expression analyzer, for
>instance, came from the C compiler I wrote (which took a lot longer than
>3 weeks).
>
>As for the 18k part.  Get ahold of ADVSYS by David Betz.  His is right in
>that range.  The compiler is 20k, the interpreter (his uses an interpreter)
>is about 18.5k.  Its public domain.  I've heard that source is available,
>but I haven't found it...and no, the executables aren't compressed.

I have the source to an earlier version of David Betz ADVSYS and have ported
it over to OS9. Very well written!! The only problem I have with the ADVSYS
is that there isn't enough examples of "adventure" source to know the proper
way to create a new "method", or how to add verbs, or how all the subsections
fit together (i.e. a "walk-through" of the sample adventure).

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