Last month I got an iPad for my birthday. It’s an older generation one, but it still seems to run everything. They’re pretty neat devices. It’s an all touch interface, so using it is a trip. Way different than keyboard, mouse. I ended up down loading Frotz on it. Frotz is an interactive fiction interpreter that has be ported to just about every platform out there. It will run z-code files, which is what all the Infocom games were written in. And it will run anything that comes out of Inform, which complies down to z-code.

After booting up Frotz on the iPad, I ended up downloading Across The Stars and started playing around with that. It didn’t take long for me to want to play the second installment of ATS on my new iPad, but it’s not done. And not on the archive. So I’ve finally gone back and started the rewrite. It’s hard, some stuff I can see needs to be changed, other stuff I just don’t know about. And writing IF is very different than anything else. It’s been a challenge.

But I’m having fun going through it again, there is some stuff buried in there that people will never find, but that’s how I program. I put all sorts of stuff in there. Pretty funny to read through some of it. And it will be great to play through the game on my iPad. Now I just have to get the game finished and on the archive.

’Til then - D

Currently Playing: Trade Wars