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Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-08T16:06:54Z

The following bytes were arranged on 8 Nov 2009 by Vince M Hudd :
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Regarding your points above, and your earlier comments on my conversion
of Pyramid...
When I converted Pyramid, I was determined that it should be as faithful
a conversion as possible - even including original bugs if necessary.

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-08T13:26:39Z

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That's largely because you were clearly tackling the _whole_ job. A good
adventure writing system should attempt to take care of as much of this as
possible on your behalf. You'll still need to handle some of this, unless
you want the result to be _very_ basic, because no system can predict what

Star Fighter 3000 on BeagleBoard

2009-11-08T00:13:30Z

Thanks to the assistance and encouragement of Jeffrey Lee, the latest
release of venerable RISC OS flight action shooter 'Star Fighter 3000'
is believed to be compatible with RISC OS on BeagleBoard. As with
other software, this meant tracking down and eliminating unaligned
memory accesses.
You can download a patch to upgrade your copy of the game to version

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T17:40:37Z

The following bytes were arranged on 7 Nov 2009 by n...@spam.invalid:
Briefly, yes, it's much, much quicker. And you'll get a more advanced
and user-friendly game for your time as well.

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T17:39:19Z

The following bytes were arranged on 7 Nov 2009 by n...@spam.invalid:
Oh, right - in that case, it sounds as if BAABE was pretty much designed
for you! The entire thing - script included - is written in
bog-standard BASIC, but all the complicated stuff is already done for
you in the interpreter - player input parsing (with provision for

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T16:26:15Z

In message <9b1d7db650.mar...@blueyonder. co.uk>
I'm not, I was hoping you could give an idea whether its worth using
or whether its better to spend the same amount of time and effort
writing a BASIC adventure yourself. All I found I had to get around
was the concept of moving around within a map and then realised even

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T16:29:55Z

In message <01077eb650.mar...@blueyonder. co.uk>
I wrote the game from scratch in BASIC for the BBC Micro. The
"interpreter" was just breaking down text entered into component parts
and updating the players location and objects status. Another
complication was dialogue with game characters.
e.g. object can be taken: bit in object properties variable set as 1,

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T13:46:05Z

The following bytes were arranged on 7 Nov 2009 by n...@spam.invalid:
'Indicators whether specific events have occurred': I'm not quite sure
how you plan to write any sort of adventure without using those.
'Variables to hold all the data': Sort of. All game-relevant ones are
taken care of for you; the variables you have to worry about are the

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T13:56:03Z

The following bytes were arranged on 7 Nov 2009 by n...@spam.invalid:
Did you write the interpreter part yourself, or did you use an existing
system?
Without a doubt, the only complicated code required is that in the
interpreter. Most of the script is simple, and even repetitive; an
average line goes, "If the player hasn't done this yet, don't let him do

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T11:42:30Z

In message <gemini.ksqkyz003rpga0420.s... @softrock.co.uk>
I've only written one but found the hardest part having to keep track
of all the flags for objects, tasks etc. The story you can just flesh
out along the way provided you have a basic set of locations.
This is what I mean by becoming bogged down with flags etc.

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T11:23:23Z

As well as what Martin says below, I'd suggest that the absolute hardest
part of writing an adventure game is the thought and imagination that must
go into the fiction itself; planning the story that will unfold for the
player, mapping it, devising the puzzles, and writing all the descriptions
to go with all of that. All of which should be done before you even think

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-07T11:10:24Z

In message <6cf126b650.mar...@blueyonder. co.uk>
In other words, indicators whether specific events have occurred,
variables to hold all the data, indexes for location, inventory etc.
Can you give an example of the script?
Andrew

Port of Freeciv released

2009-11-07T04:04:02Z

I've updated the original very old port of Freeciv. More here:
[link]

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-06T22:04:51Z

The following bytes were arranged on 6 Nov 2009 by Andrew :
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You'll have to be more specific than that. What's a flag, what's a
variable and what's an index?
The main difference in most interpreters is the sophistication of the
adventure you can create solely from data files, without having to write

Spheres of Chaos for A-Models?

2009-11-06T21:30:04Z

Hello!
I have found the free download of Spheres of Chaos:
[link]
But it works only on RiscPCs. I have a A3010 computer with 2 MB RAM and
I'm sure there was at that time a version for A-models like my A3010.
Is there a free version as download?
Best regards
Amin