Initially, I was just fooling around, creating code snippets to see how it all may fit together. Quick, dirty hacks you know.
But somehow things got more and more refined and today I was able to test my little two-word #textadventure #game #parser by walking between two rooms.
Written using #gforth but also works with #dxforth on #cpm80
Despite owning a pile of the BASIC type in adventure books from Usborne in the 80's for my #ZXSpectrum I really was not into text adventures at all as a kid.
That all changed when being introduced to an online MUD in 1992 when starting university, first playing, then coding on it creating a whole complex area of the map. (LPC was also the first object orientated programming language I used, before giving C a go!)
When I started programming on the SAM Coupe in 1993 I did have a few attempts at adventure based stuff. First with a very simple adventure driver written in BASIC (I had yet to venture towards #Z80 machine code!) which held room info in DATA statements) then I made the start on a program to rip the room descriptions out of the LPC files I had from I had coded for the MUD. (I still have a copy of these from 30+ years ago!)
I'll be looking at this more in the forthcoming Adventure section in 'SAM Revival' magazine...
