Re: games/adventure

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

BTW, I ran into a C-port of the dungeon-3.2B code

        Translated and ported by Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath%netcom.com@localhost>

This port is closely integrated with the author's own "Glk API" (not 
sure what it stands for).

There are multiple GLK libraries available fro the author's website, but 
the "terminal window" library seems to be 32-bit centric (makes explicit 
and shameless assumptions that a pointer can fit into a 32-bit integer, 
for example).  A "cheapglk" library works, but ends up ignoring the 
width of the user's terminal; text ouptut longer than one line just gets 
run-on into the next line, ignoring natural line-breaks, etc.

Other than this Glk thing, it was fairly trivial to get Andrew's C code 
to compile and actually run!

I'll be happy to make it available to anyone who wants to play.  And in 
my spare time I'll see if I can make it into a real package, and maybe 
even fix up the glkterm issues to work on 64-bit machines.  :)



On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Yep, saw your response, too.  Having browsed through various sources at the 
> site Rhialto pointed to, I can definitely confirm that you are correct - the 
> game I was playing was actually dungeon.  (I did say that it had been "many 
> many years" since I'd played, so a small lapse of the memory cells can 
> perhaps be excused?)
>
> Thanks to both of you for the quick replies!
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > I hope you saw my response that your memory is playing with you. The 
> > puzzles and scenarios you describe aren't in adventure at all, but another 
> > (but rather similar) game from about the same era... Called ZORK or 
> > DUNGEON, depending on which version you stumbled on (the ZORK was on PDP-10 
> > systems only, though, unless you count the ZORK trilology for home 
> > computers).
> >
> >         Johnny
> >
> > Paul Goyette wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Rhialto wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Does anyone else remember this extended variation?  Or better, does
> > > > > anyone happen to have a copy of the sources for it?  (Even if they're
> > > > > just original Fortan sources...)
> > > >
> > > > Maybe it is here? http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/
> > >
> > > Well, there are enough varsions and variations of adventure there!  I 
> > > would guess that if it is not there, it no longer exists.  :)
> > >
> > > Thanks for the pointer.
> > >
> > >
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