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Rod
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Re: Mars Adventure Game
« Reply #7 on: Apr 15th, 2016, 1:31pm » |
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I would just publish it. We have lost vast amounts of code with the closure of files archives.
Then folks can enjoy it again.
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Jack Kelly
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Re: Mars Adventure Game
« Reply #8 on: Apr 16th, 2016, 07:47am » |
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I'd love to have a look at Adventure Engine, if anyone can find it. I'd also love to get my hands on Infocom's old text game compiler - the one they used to make the three Zorks and many others. Text games are interactive story books. Like books, all the graphics are in your mind with just suggestions from the text. That's the real beauty of it. People, especially kids, are much too addicted to the video-like graphics of today's games. (IMO)
Actually though, I'm much better at orchestration rather than composing.
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Richard Russell
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Re: Mars Adventure Game
« Reply #9 on: Apr 16th, 2016, 09:35am » |
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on Apr 15th, 2016, 1:31pm, Rod wrote:
I've uploaded it to the LBB Yahoo! group's Files area here (members only):
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/lbb/files
The file is djyv3.zip. A few things to note:
A number of sub-directories are created so choose where to extract the Zip with care. Don't put it on your desktop!
I'm not sure that I've put the correct subset of files in the Zip, for example I suspect I've accidentally included a 'saved game'. If anything seems to be missing let me know.
The program uses a third-party database engine (cheetah2.dll) which I've - perhaps unwisely - included without knowing its copyright status. It's probably overkill for this application anyway, so perhaps somebody can adapt the game engine to use native LB random-access files. Richard.
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Jack Kelly
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Re: Mars Adventure Game
« Reply #10 on: Apr 17th, 2016, 2:02pm » |
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Thanks for uploading Adventure Engine to the Yahoo site. It looks like something more for Michael than for me, but it's piqued my curiosity about Cheetah.
Years ago I used a great database system that seems to be lost and gone forever, like so many things. It was one of the modules in a DOS suite called Enable. Have you ever heard of it? They never upgraded to Windows unfortunately. A Wikipedia link follows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enable_Software,_Inc.
I can't get this link to work. Search for "Enable Software" in Wikipedia. Sorry.
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