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http://therealeasterbunny.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/visionary.htm

Hi All,

The above is what I used to create R (Pron: Arrr...). It only runs on MS Windows so apologies to all LINUX etc users. Coded in VB6. Source code also included if you wish to have a rummage. - Should open in Notepad if you dont have VB6.

Free to use if you also wish to create old school two word parser adventures with relative ease

Its v0.00 alpha at the moment and is pretty stable apart from introducing a LOOK / EXAMINE / X bug for my IFCOMP entry which has now been fixed.

Enjoy.

therealeasterbunny

I'd like to check it out, but Google Chrome is reporting that the page contains Malware.

Sometimes this is as innocent as linking to executables instead of zip files in your code.

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Your site contains malware in the embedded ads on the coffee table page. One of them appears to deploy a Java exploit.

I have edited your original post to remove the hyperlink.

Javacsript Malware removed from Coffee Table page. Thank you for the heads up warning.

This is a screenshot of Visionary with R (Pron: Arrr...) loaded.

Apologies to all. Now rectified.

I've had to edit your second post where you embedded an image from your site, to stop Google from saying intfiction.org was hosting malware.

You may have to set up Google Webmaster Tools on your site and submit it for a new crawl, so Google knows the infected files are gone.

Once you do, you can resubmit your original links, but please don't link to or embed content from your site until it shows up clean.

OK, thank you.

If its safer for the site, you can remove this topic if you wish and I will republish once Google is happy.

Cheers.

Looks like your site checks out clean now, so you can feel free to edit back in your links.

Thank you. Yes, I can also confirm Google giving it a clean bill of health. Links and posts updated.

On a side issue, I am studying Java at the Open University at the moment and along side this (and to help with Java hands-on study) am looking into developing both a new adventure creator (which will be an extension of the current SACA format) (but will still only be a two word parser) and text adventures for the Kindle (probably freeware games ).

I believe there is a market (a free one albeit) out there for text adventures for mobile devices (which is why I made AdvPDA).

My reasoning behind this is Interactive fiction with full sentences is good for desktops or laptops (full size keyboards) but would anyone play Interactive fiction that uses full sentences on tiny mobile keyboards? ... but this is my reasoning behind two word parser 'text adventures' coming back - simple quick play but with better descriptions of rooms and items instead of "LOOK BED" - "OK".

Cheers

Steve.

Lots of people are already working on stuff for mobiles. Rather than invent a new system which, realistically, no one will use, why not help with twisty http://code.google.com/p/twisty/ for example.

As to having to type too much, the solution isn't to make the parsers bad, but to have other tools, like tapping to copy a word, hyperlinks, or keyword extensions.