Well I was directed over here shall we say

My first post so be kind.

I've wanted to convert this for a long time but only recently tried to do anything with it.

The World Of Spectrum (its only platform afaik) entry is here > http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0007149

There's a few issues with this, although the game is 80% Basic, the location map, object map and graphics are stored in code. I could not find an easy way of turning these into a useable form.

I had planned on using a single byte for movement by using a bit for NSEWUDIN (North / South / East / West / Up / Down / In / Out) to save space.

Please note: My ZX programming is semi reasonable, my Acorn programming is best considered not so / poor so it was a learning curve too.

Inserting the basic and fixing a few things up, it did sort of work but it seemed too much trouble so I've decided to GAC it. I actually brought a used B GAC (I do have the original speccy version which I brought new £22! back in the day) mainly as there's no Beeb manual available anywhere that I could see, although its the same as other versions the graphics section is not. I've also found a working version now as the STH version tends to crash / not load a lot.

I am about 20% of the way there. So far I've inserted all the room descriptions and movement table (some of this wants changing) and got a rough loading screen up. I also changed the room map around by drawing on an existing game map so I knew what went where etc.

Next steps are the objects (I've done one) and things like flags for conditions / doors open or not etc)

Depending on memory remaining, there might be space for a couple of graphics.

And now for a couple of pics:







Thoughts appreciated

Bear in mind it took about four hours to do what I've done so far, my free time is very very short and its likely to be a couple of weeks before I even go near it again for an hour or two.

Hi (again!), Andy.

Your project certainly looks interesting. We've had a few text adventures in development over the years, but only actually uploaded one completed game - a simple BASIC affair which I think was actually developed a long time before we started RS.

The usual lifecycle of a project here is that when you're ready for it to graduate to a full project and you're pretty committed to finishing it, we can set you up with a wiki page and forum. You can use the former to host beta downloads, screenshots and even a project diary if you're so inclined. We also havea bug tracker and, if you've set up a development environment so that you're coding in regular PC files, we can also offer a Mercurial project - tho that may well be overkill for your needs.

For now, tho, feel free to just keep chipping away and give us a shout when you think you're ready for the next stage!

Sam.

P.S. The loading screen is quite striking!

Thanks

Not really sure where this one's going at the moment although its more a time issue than hard work I think.

I do have a few others in mind too if this one turns out well

Loading pic wants a bit of a tweak I know, that was the "best of four" initial attempts, although its not a major consideration at this stage, I think once I need it I'll redo it slightly larger to kill the ZX style border effect.

This is temporarily on the back burner (new topic explaining why)