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and had a few extensions to the original. The adventures made in WinPAW could only be played using the MS Windows runtime. In 2009, InPAWS was released in its first version. It allows to extract PAW adventures, edit them or create from scratch and write back a database for PAW for either Amstrad CPC
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To ensure that as much text as possible can be used, PAWS compresses the descriptions by replacing the most common letters combinations by tokens, using characters greater than 127 (the ones that, in the Spectrum, are used for storing the BASIC tokens).
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in several ways. In particular, its textual input parser was more sophisticated, meaning inputs were no longer confined to the two-word telegraphic
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with graphic illustrations. It was written by Tim Gilberts, Graeme Yeandle and Phil Wade, based on Yeandle's earlier system called
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In 2001, WinPAW was written by Douglas Harter. It could read adventures written in PAW, but ran under
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or ZX Spectrum. Thus, it also allows PAW adventures to be ported between the systems.
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in 1987 and quickly gained a loyal following. PAW improved over
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The PAW Reservoir by Nacho A. Llorente *deleted by author*
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Graeme Yeandle also released an updated version of the
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Index


Publisher(s)
Gilsoft
Designer(s)
Platform(s)
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC
Genre(s)
textual adventure games
The Quill
Gilsoft
NPCs
ZX Spectrum
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
MS-Windows
CP/M
MS-DOS
Crash 50
"Professional Adventure Writer"
the original
"Your Sinclair Issue 18, June 1987"
the original
Spectrum Computing: Professional Adventure Writer


InPAWS
Professional Adventure Writer
Curlie
Graeme Yeandle's Text Adventure Page

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