STORYSPACE READER UPGRADE

HTML editors are limited, so many, like poet Robert Kendall, have resorted to writing their own programs to give them more control: Kendall wrote the poem 'A Life Set for Two' and the Visual Basic program that encloses it. For people who construct hypertexts in Storyspace and want to deploy their work on the Web, the HTML Export has also been improved.īut is it improved enough? Fiction writers and poets trying to invent a new computer-based form of literature are still searching for the ultimate tool. It handles color and images more elegantly, it's easier to trace where various links resolve, and it adheres more closely to 'drag' conventions.

STORYSPACE READER UPGRADE

The $75 upgrade (brand new, it's $295 bulk discounts are available) is more incremental than revolutionary. Eastgate is sponsoring some of the Web's more adventurous hypertext fiction and poetry, and a new version of Storyspace for Windows, numbered 1.75, has recently been released. But Web or no Web, Eastgate and Storyspace are still kicking. Add to that the overhead involved with presenting such material in computer form, and you're not giving John Grisham much competition. Thanks to some successful early attempts at hypertext fiction that Eastgate published (most notably by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop) and a front-page Robert Coover essay in the 'New York Times Book Review,' Eastgate and Storyspace were closely associated with the emerging field of literary hypertext.īut as anyone trying to make a living as a poet or short story writer knows, there's only a small market for literary fiction in traditional book format. Microsoft had several abandoned projects, but it was Eastgate Systems' Storyspace authoring system that captured the imagination of writers with one foot in literature and the other in technology. Apple's HyperCard was the most popular pre-Web hypertext system because of its winning.

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