X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=295abe888939fdc60152e4b3a4521d779b220769;hb=4e0129019735c8fdca1d40f77e29d3c8d8257741;hp=13b4b0b4fe44b69ec0d2495d0b0b287045232191;hpb=056d415c5a40209963cb26f45458ca8c73d02f5e;p=ibg.git diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index 13b4b0b..295abe8 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ About this guide ================== +.. highlight:: inform6 + .. epigraph:: | *If they asked me, I could write a book;* @@ -9,7 +11,16 @@ -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. -Text adventures, otherwise known collectively as interactive fiction (IF), +.. only:: html + + .. image:: /images/picT.png + :align: left + +.. raw:: latex + + \dropcap{t} + +ext adventures, otherwise known collectively as interactive fiction (IF), were highly popular computer games during the 1980s. As technology evolved they faded from the market, unable to compete with increasingly sophisticated graphical games; however, IF was far from dead. The Internet