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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Adventure
Message-ID: <2069@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 13:37:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2069
Posted: Mon Jul  6 13:37:37 1987
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in article <1226@spice.cs.cmu.edu>, mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) says:

> 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.  

Oops, MakeAdv didn't account for that.  I did all the splitting on the
VAX, and I guess I assumed that most others would too.  So you'd at the
very least, cat Rec1 Rec2 Rec3 > adv.rec.uue.  I put the uudecode check
into MakeAdv 'cause I know some prople have had problems with the setup
on Kermits, so if you download only ASCII, there's no problem (doesn't
solve the problem, but circumvents it).


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.
> 
> 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? 

That's true, only 2-word commands.  Very much like the early versions I've
used with 350 or fewer points.

>  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 started on the DEC-20 version, which ran on the Computation Center 
DEC-20s back when I was at CMU.  That version didn't accept "take all",
multiple instructions per line, or other "Zorkisms" that have crept in
(not that I've got anything against these; they do save time).  This
Amiga version is perhaps a bit too faithful to the earlier versions in
these respects.

> Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department

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