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- This package is based on Infocom Task Force Interpreter, the
- sources for which are available by FTP from remus.rutgers.edu and
- ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au in the /pub/infocom directory, or from the
- interactive-fiction archive at ftp.gmd.de.
-
- In addition, thanks must go to (in no particular order)
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- Formal Systems (Europe) Limited, who made it possible to port the
- interpreter to the Psion by letting me use company compilers and
- equipment "out of hours."
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- Acorn and Aleph1 whose excellent PC emulation products has allowed
- the bulk of the work on the Psion version to be carried out on an
- Acorn Archimedes, under software and later hardware emulation.
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- All the registered users who have helped to keep the Psion version
- in development and found some of the more obscure bugs, like the
- Lurking Horror login and the German exit problem.
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- Dominic Symes, whose incredible !Zap made editing the C source
- code much easier and faster.
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- Paul Gardiner, for a lightweight wimp library which made it
- possible to get early ports to the Acorn running much more
- quickly.
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- Jason Williams for DeskLib 2.03/2.04 which made it possible to
- polish up the interface without driving Paul to distraction with
- feature requests.
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- Mark Moxon, who allowed me to check compatibility with the Acorn
- Pocketbook.
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- Graham Nelson, whose manual for Inform release 4 contains much
- useful background information on infocom interpreters and helped
- illuminate many corners of the original ITF sources. Similarly,
- Curses was useful both as another test file and as a fiendish
- distraction. Graham also pointed out some of the more serious
- screen update glitches.
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- Mark Howell, whose alternative portable interpreter Zip inspired
- many of the fixes to the bizarre screen handling of the ITF
- interpeter.
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- Steve Lichfield, for his excellent work with 3Lib and inspiring
- the registration mechanism with Fairway.
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- Beta-testers for 1.6, Robin Watts and Roger Burton-West. Robin's
- requests (since about release 0.1) have a lot to do with the this
- interpreter running on both platforms with so many bells and
- whistles. Roger helped point out many places where I was
- violating unwritten rules for Psion applications.
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- Andrew McMurry helped catch an embarassing problem with the option
- processing on the DEC Alpha with the 1.7 beta-release.
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- Finally, thanks must also go to the numerous other members of the
- Oxford Archimedes User Group who first persuaded me to track down
- the ITF sources and suffered through my very early Acorn ports,
- beta-tested my early ports at every opportunity and finally
- complained enough about the existing interpreters to persuade me
- to port back to the Acorn.
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- Trademarks of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Activision, Clarion TopSpeed,
- Apple Computers, Microsoft, Commodore Business Machines, Psion and
- Acorn Computers are hereby acknowledged.