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That sure is amazing.
Now, when is the famous "Sword of Sodragon" game due to be released?!

johnha wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 8:46 pm EDIT: Corrected a couple of tpyos

… All but one, I see!

When I can access my personal computer (I'm currently working from home, so I have both PCs trade places and I usually do so on week-ends), I will be able to retrieve the ".vdk" that holds the source code for the adventure game I had written, back in 1986 (… I even think there was a short note about...

Fascinating insight (and so obvious one you've thought about it). Yes, I can say I really spent a lot of time considering things before tackling the actual programming. But the strangest thing here is… that this was about 36 years ago and I still remember it! I guess it is because I spent so much t...

"How to manage objects in an adventure game written in BASIC?" Once again, this is achieved through arrays. Say your game has: . 99 locations (variable LO=99) . 50 objects (variable IT=50) You would need 3 arrays to store the needed information for all your objects: . array IL for the location item...

During my attic find I also found a BASIC printout of Flipper (Othello/Reversi clone). I've always been intrigued with the AI needed for a game like that - when I get a chance I might try to analyse it. The computer AI was pretty good - it beat my handheld Othello computer back in the day. Hello Jo...

… It was just that there was useless code there: 440 IF OL(J)<>CP THEN 460 :ELSE 450 450 PRINT OJ$(J) 460 NEXT J From the moment OL(J)=CP , Line 450 will be executed. No need to make any explicit reference to the following line (450). ELSE is only an optional statement in "IF" instructions. And I'm ...

… From "Devil's Island":

440 IF OL(J)<>CP THEN 460 :ELSE 450
450 PRINT OJ$(J)
460 NEXT J

… Wow! That really feels like programming from a true master!

The early adventure games from Dragon Data were written in BASIC, as were the Salamander Software ones. Some were generated as machine-code files, such as Adventure International's/Scott Adams'. Many BASIC adventure games were created in "tokenised" BASIC and might be not so easy to read because a l...

The only other way of doing it would be to break into Colossal Cave Adventure and get a glimpse of the listing, that woud involve more knowledge than I have though. … And that would only be possible if the game was written in BASIC. But I Believe such tools generate kind of assembly code (or pseudo...