Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh 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 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 05:59:25 EDT References: <1226@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 45 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 -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh "The A2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy "Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world" -Beach Boys