Comments on: A Poetic Text… Adventure?

By: Caleb

Caleb — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:42:56 +0000

This was AWESOME.

Puts to shame all my old basic games. (You had to find a piece of bread to a beggar to get the code-word to get into the thieves guild.)

By: gnome

gnome — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:05:15 +0000

Sad I know. Never really figured out how all those 0s and 1s thing worked in math either. Oh, well. Should be time well spent. In a way.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:57:22 +0000

Machine code?! Egads man!

By: gnome

gnome — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:53:15 +0000

Of course, of course. Pure machine code is the way forwards.

00010100101001010
11001011111011011
11111111100111110
10010001000001001

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:44:00 +0000

I almost guarantee it – people have been writing Z80 assembler for decades now. My trusty old Texas Instruments TI-85 calculator even had Super Mario Land and Tetris running on it.

Of course, the time to write this in assembly might be better spent

By: gnome

gnome — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:41:02 +0000

Always a (great) pleasure! Glad to know your taste hasn’t failed you either. Think machine code could produce a qBasic Speccy version?

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:30:25 +0000

Bestill my heart – a qBasic and fellow Speccy appreciator?!

Ha ha ha… thanks for dropping in gnome

By: gnome

gnome — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:13:18 +0000

Brilliant! And it might get even better and go for the modernist souls by doing away with line numbers and adapting a lovely qBasic style. Then again, it is a Speccy compatible peace of interactive poetry as it is…

By: chris

chris — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:15:17 +0000

Hi Alex,

Yes indeed – the link is down (I updated the post mentioning that). I sent an e-mail off to the owner of The Big Jewel and hopefully I’ll hear back.

Once you see the BASIC code (and run the program) you’ll see why Matt chose to write it out as text. It would literally be impossible to play this game in something like Inform7 or Adrift

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:14:34 +0000

Oops, nvm. I didn’t see the update.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:12:23 +0000

Seminal idea, but the the link to the BASIC code doesn’t work. I wonder why he didn’t write it in one of the many IF parsers out there? Like Inform7 or adrift?

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:41:52 +0000

Most excellent ^_^. Ha ha… I even thought that the commands were supposed to make sense at first!