New MINI-BASIC Text adventure!

[Paul Allen Panks]

Hello,

In April of 2003, I stumbled upon Sylvain Bizoirre's MINI-BASIC
programming language (based off of Li-Chen Wang's Palo Alto Tiny BASIC).

At first, I scoffed at the idea of writing a text adventure in a version
of Tiny BASIC. After all, Tiny BASIC doesn't even support strings!

However, after a few weeks of thought, I sat down at my computer and coded
-- line by line -- a very rough input routine using only scalar variables.
It worked by adding up the CHR$ value of each character entered. This
meant that a value of, say, 1006 added together signaled "inventory" to
the program. While the possiblity of other words equaling 1006 exists,
this is remote due to the specific sum of each number added together.

So I coded both Dark Forest 1 and 2 based on that premise, and came away
with enough of a game to satisfy my curiosity. Both Dark Forest 1 and Dark
Forest 2 are complete, MUD-like text adventures written in MINI-BASIC.

You can download both games here:

http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html

(scroll down to my list of games, and click on "Dark Forest" to download
the two games)

Both games are included, along with the MINI-BASIC interpreter. If you
wish to download the interpreter without the games, it is located on
Sylvain Bizoirre's website here:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/retromatique/MiniBasic/

(Simon's website has Dark Forest for download, but does not include Dark
Forest 2...to get both games, you'll need to go to my website listed
previously).

Both games are not to be confused with Cleve Blakemore's text adventure on
the Commodore 128.

Sincerely,

Paul Panks
***@yahoo.com
ICQ# 12234336

[Paul Allen Panks]

Hello,

I might also add that both Dark Forest 1 and 2 work under MINI-BASIC, but
*not* MBASIC by Franck Charlet (Frank's MBASIC is an update of
Bizoirre's MINI-BASIC, but apparently does not read .MBI files created
with MINI-BASIC).

I will try contacting Franck to see if it is possible (in future
versions) to read in MINI-BASIC source code using the MBASIC interpreter.

Also note: Dark Forest is 32KB long codewise, with Dark Forest 2 coming in
at around 36KB.

Sincerely,

Paul Panks
***@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html

Post by Paul Allen Panks
Hello,
In April of 2003, I stumbled upon Sylvain Bizoirre's MINI-BASIC
programming language (based off of Li-Chen Wang's Palo Alto Tiny BASIC).
At first, I scoffed at the idea of writing a text adventure in a version
of Tiny BASIC. After all, Tiny BASIC doesn't even support strings!
However, after a few weeks of thought, I sat down at my computer and coded
-- line by line -- a very rough input routine using only scalar variables.
It worked by adding up the CHR$ value of each character entered. This
meant that a value of, say, 1006 added together signaled "inventory" to
the program. While the possiblity of other words equaling 1006 exists,
this is remote due to the specific sum of each number added together.
So I coded both Dark Forest 1 and 2 based on that premise, and came away
with enough of a game to satisfy my curiosity. Both Dark Forest 1 and Dark
Forest 2 are complete, MUD-like text adventures written in MINI-BASIC.
http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html
(scroll down to my list of games, and click on "Dark Forest" to download
the two games)
Both games are included, along with the MINI-BASIC interpreter. If you
wish to download the interpreter without the games, it is located on
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/retromatique/MiniBasic/
(Simon's website has Dark Forest for download, but does not include Dark
Forest 2...to get both games, you'll need to go to my website listed
previously).
Both games are not to be confused with Cleve Blakemore's text adventure on
the Commodore 128.
Sincerely,
Paul Panks
ICQ# 12234336
--
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

[Katzy]

Heya Paul.

Paul Allen Panks wrote in message ...

Post by Paul Allen Panks
Hello,

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Post by Paul Allen Panks
So I coded both Dark Forest 1 and 2 based on that premise, and came away
with enough of a game to satisfy my curiosity. Both Dark Forest 1 and Dark
Forest 2 are complete, MUD-like text adventures written in MINI-BASIC.
http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html
(scroll down to my list of games, and click on "Dark Forest" to download
the two games)

Why have you NEW in the subject? Are they updated?

Post by Paul Allen Panks
(Simon's website has Dark Forest for download, but does not include Dark
Forest 2...to get both games, you'll need to go to my website listed
previously).

From May 2003 somewhere in the download of my website too.

Greetz, Katzy.