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Thanks to everyone who has been sending me emails; I really do appreciate them and its great to hear that people are still using the ORLibrary. I hope to do updates with a bit more frequency, so feel free to share your thoughts, especially on potential extensions that you might like to see.Yes, I’m still answering emails, although at a modest rate, and I’m still taking bug reports on the ORLibrary modules. The most recent of these is Howard Sherman’s fix to ORNPCVerb, although I confess that I have a few sitting in my email that I’ve yet to fix. Hopefully I can get to these soon.
Yes, I’ve put a little effort into ORLib or I7. Much of this was from early pre-release cycles of I7, of which Graham was kind enough to include me in a few, but I don’t really have anything worth releasing at the moment.
Yes, I still have plans to continue writing the Mage Wars trilogy; time, as I have indicated, is a commodity I have very little of at the moment.
Yes, I do still lurk around on the R*IF groups from time to time. I seldom feel the need to respond to general posts, but I try to stay on top of the changes.
No, I’m not using David Fisher as a pseudo name. Yes, I see he’s written a tense changing module for I7 similar to OREnglish, but we are not the same person. Great minds think alike, though.
No, I don’t see myself continuing with CodingMonk in quite the same way as I had originally anticipated. It is likely that I’ll reverse many of the site redirections that are currently pushing from OnyxRing to CodingMonk and translate that site into something else.
ORLibraryMessages.hThe current ORLibrary (1.3A) has been revised extensively to take advantage of several new Inform features and will no longer support the 6.21 compiler or its associated 6.10 library. The 6.3 compiler (currently available for Windows and Linux, with more platforms forthcoming, I'm sure) and the 6.11 standard library are the current targets. For those of you that are hesitant about taking the plunge, the last version of the ORLibrary that targets 6.21 is the 1.0c release, still downloadable at the following URL:
ORObjectInitialise.h
ORStartingTurn.h
ORAskTellOrder.h
ORHideDirectionWalls.h
ORStyleItalics.h
ORStyleRvrsMonospace.h
RandComp - a game whose premise is to incorporate random functionality as much as possible. (Which is what promptedthe afore mentioned "Tips" article.)
WhodunnitComp - a murder mystery themed competition. We're waiting to gage a response before going down this road, but not unwilling to do cashprizes. Since this site is pretty much dedicated to learning to code, accompanying source-code would probably need to be a requirement for entries to be eligible for the prizes. Let us know what you think.