From: hellers@ix.netcom.com (Stan Heller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: FABLE:Electronic Note in a Bottle
Date: 4 Sep 1995 16:09:07 GMT

I was quite surprised yesterday to see that one of the recent 
offerings in the Interactive Fiction Archive was written by 
me and dated 1985. The piece was called "Fable" and after an inquiry 
to Volker Blasius I discovered that not only has this been bouncing 
around the Net for years, it was even panned in a review. 

Just for the record, "Fable" was a sketch and never intended for full
public release. I was helping Mark Welch beta test an adventure 
game authoring system. I guess he needed a few concrete examples 
to demo and he used my stuff. It was not a complete game, never 
intended to be and I am a bit embarrassed to discover it on the 
NET in this form. 

To give you all the proper historical context, that sketch was written
on an IBM PCjr (!!!)

Now that I know it is out there, I suspect I will have to dust off 
the old files and actually write the full game. I think I will use
a different game authoring system, however. 

As I told Volker, I'm not angry about this- just surprised and a 
bit amused. To anyone who took "Fable" as a finished work ( or even 
cared) this is a disclaimer. I did not think the work was finished and
I never would have published it ot the Net in its present form.


                                        =stan
