Disk No: 1794                                                           
Disk Title: Vari-Tale                                                   
PC-SIG Version: S1                                                      
                                                                        
Program Title: Vari-Tale                                                
Author Version: C1.01                                                   
Author Registration: $10.00                                             
Special Requirements: None.                                             
                                                                        
VARITALE is a "branching authoring system", designed to run either      
locally on your computer screen, or as a "Door" on BBS systems such as  
PCBoard, RBBS, NoChange, Fido, ROS, Sapphire and so on.                 
                                                                        
You will be able to write stories (known in VARITALE as "books") that   
have alternate chapters.  At any point, there is always an alternative. 
In VARITALE, each step (known in VARITALE as "chapters") can be up to 50
lines long.  After each step, there can be up to 5 alternatives.        
                                                                        
This allows you and other people to create "story-rounds", in which     
everybody contributes chapters to the tale.  Story-rounds are quite     
popular on BBS systems, but there is a problem: somebody will take the  
story in the wrong direction, and the other writers get annoyed.  And   
that is the end of that story.                                          
                                                                        
With VARITALE, the writers can propose alternate chapters, either in    
response to an inappropriate effort by another writer, or simply to     
explore a different facet of the story.  This version is limited to     
three books.                                                            
                                                                        
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