It’s a game that suffers too much from sheer frustration, which many of these games from the early days of text adventures do. Puzzles that expect something that the user couldn’t possibly know about, dying from lack of food or water after a strict number of moves
As promised at the end of the last adventure post, we’re looking today at the graphics version of Adventureland by Adventure International, which came out some 4 years after the text only game. I’m also going to try a new format which may or may not prevail – influenced somewhat by Sprite Castle, I’m going … Read more
Adventure Without A Name, a text-based adventure game. Although limited in parsing, it offers a quick, simple quest to retrieve gold from a dragon for a prince, taking around 15 minutes to complete.
More an exercise in getting the mechanisms right for creating, loading and appending SEQ files in CBM Basic than the foolproof get rich program I secretly think it is, but you never know…. For some reason SEQ files always give me problems and it’s usually because I forget to use the correct flags, especially ‘a’ … Read more
Here we go then, the 1st day of 2023’s Advent of Code. Day 1 looked deceptively simple, with part 1 completed in pretty quick time. The only real problem was the large amount of data caused memory overflow issues, so I split it into 4 separate parts for the data statements. I’ll list some code … Read more