Re: Is EXAMINE necessary? (was Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal)

[Iain Merrick <im@cs.york.ac.uk>]

J R Partington wrote:

> Iain Merrick <im@cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
[...]
> > the Phoenix games aren't very good
> 
> Ouch! Well, that's put us in our place, hasn't it.

Er, that came out rather nastier than I intended. Sorry.

I should stress again that that was all just IMHO. And I wouldn't want
to take these kinds of games away from people who enjoy them.

> I think we just have to accept that some people like the simple syntax
> and the emphasis on puzzles, whereas others don't. I think if they
> were being written now, rather than 12-15 years ago, we'd have gone
> for a better parser---like the Topologika one, say---and provided
> 'undo' (for people who are not in the habit of saving games
> regularly).  Not much else.

Okay, but you would at least want to add those. I was just rather
surprised to read in the documentation to the Z-code ports that as few
additions as possible had been made. The porters seemed to be trumpeting
genuine flaws -- or what I see as flaws -- as essential elements of
classic games. And some of the posts in this thread seemed to back up
that up.

Oops. Must stop here to play Go. :)

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Iain Merrick
im@cs.york.ac.uk