Subject: The Tenth Anniversary of Adventure Builder Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 05:21:59 GMT From: alan@accessone.com (Alan Conroy) Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction It was ten years ago that the first version of Adventure Builder was publicly released. To celebrate, we are releasing the source code to V1.1. Check out htp://www.accessone.com/~conroy/anniversary.htm to get a copy. As soon as I can get ftp to work, I'll also upload it to the archives. Nothing earth-shaking, but its the best I could come up with to mark the time. Why V1.1 instead of V1.0? Well, you know how they say to make backups in case anything happens to your hard disk? Well, I had a 60 Mb disk which was used for archiving old software, and the only copy of the 1.0 sources were on it. As you have probably guessed, it is now defunct along with the archived software. SIGH. Why V1.1 instead of V2.0? First, since this is an anniversary, I thought it would be good to look back and see where AB was ten years ago (if nothing else, its good for a few laughs). Second, I still haven't given up hope on having some form of financial success in the future based on the current code base. Hence, I'm hesitant to just publish the source. If, after ten years of non-financial success, I still think there is hope, then I must [pick one]: 1) be incredibly optimistic, 2) have an incredible ego, 3) be totally deluded, 4) have something awesome up my sleeve, or 5) all of the above. - Alan Conroy