Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Adventure Message-ID: <1226@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 15:44:49 EDT Article-I.D.: spice.1226 Posted: Sun Jul 5 15:44:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 21:29:44 EDT Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 43 Keywords: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Just so everyone won't be discouraged with Dave's port, I took it and brought > it up with little trouble [...] No problems here either, except that the MakeAdv file bombs massively when used on a one-drive system. It relabeled my Workbench disk "Amiga Adventure". I wound up installing it by hand. Remember that you have to concatenate Rec1 Rec2 and Rec3 into adv.rec.uue. I did it using the AmigaDOS join command (which worked, but took five minutes). I'm not sure whether MakeAdv takes care of this or not. > But, either the game isn't playing with a full deck, or I'm not, because it > (after I'd successfully picked up lots of stuff) wouldn't let me take the > black rod in the debris room (or xyzzy room), with the same command that > works just fine in our school VAX BSD 4.3 Unix (350 point) version of the game, > nor with any other reasonable version of the command. In fact, after th game > told me there was a black wand with a tarnished star in the room, when I tried > "take black rod" I was told there wasn't one here. Just say "take rod" and it will work fine. I suspect the parser understands only two-word commands of the form [verb] [noun]. DaveH, is this true? What really bothered me is that the game does not understand "take all" when faced with the selection of items in the house. The 350 point version I played on a PDP 11/70 under RSTS understood this, plus you could place multiple commands on one line as sentences, separated by periods. I was surprised to find the singing sword, having only played the 350 point version. Looks like I get to enjoy Adventure all over again (especially considering I lost the map I made the first time :-) ). > Kent, the man from xanth. -- Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department ARPA: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: {backbone-site}!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club...tons o' fun) "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" --Laurie Anderson, "Lanugage is a Virus"