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Welcome to ChuckADV
Still under Construction !!!
This is a COMPLETELY NEW RE-WRITE of ADVENT
TXT files hold the LOCATIONS
YOU can WRITE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE ! (with 00Cedar)
PS:
From Chuck Darling
Feb 29, 2024
Re: ChuckADV
My best man,
the late
Robert Valentine Hanzlian
introduced me to
Colossal Cave Adventure
on his company's
minicomputer, around
1985.
I played it sometime
after midnight, on a
while he did System
Programming.
I thought it was great,
although limited to the
You couldn't do anything
new with it...
I began this Software
in the 1990's,
It's gone through hundreds
of FUNCTIONAL versions
to the present day...
Just writing it has been
an adventure in itself,
as equipment and
online resources have
morphed over the years.
For that reason, I haven't
focused on perfecting
a "copy" of Colossal Cave
Adventure, because I have
never worked through all
the puzzles of the original
game !
This is NOT a "PORT" !
PORTS are relatively easy
to construct,
(for a skilled programmer...)
simply mirroring
the data structures of the
Original ADVENT into
the syntax of another language.
This is an ADV WRITER,
that uses 12 line text files
to hold each "room" or location.
Very different from
ADVENTs table-driven
PDP-10 FORTRAN !
00Cedar.exe builds those files,
and through the "H" command,
builds a Desktop/Phonetop
Local HTML file, complete with
images, links, and a large
JavaScript Select List .
JPI Cedar takes those same
Text files, and builds a
Justpaste.it compatible
html version in the local
JPI folder.
These are loaded into a
local Text Editor,
the HTML text is copied,
and a new JustPaste.it
page is then built by the
user, with the local
JPI html source pasted
into the JustPaste.it
HTML edit window.
The user then edits the
Just paste.it file,
to align the links,
and adds whatever seems
appropriate.
Chuck
If you're Curious,
you can download a
1998 version of my
Software.
It ran on similar 12 line
files, though it handled
color differently, and
did not produce html,
nor could it load from
a Beanlist. The Location
Files were " .WPD "
as I used WordPad to
edit them on my
Refurbished HP Pavilion
Pentium 200 MMX Win95
PC.
The source code of
my Originals was lost,
and the current versions
were completely re-written
from something I called
Simula6, whose archive
was fouled by Agency Suits.
Yep.
They informed me
in public, talking behind
my back at the
"A Taste of Buffalo"
food festival...
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