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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Adventure
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Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 15:44:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  5 15:44:49 1987
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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.

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