[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Dave L]

Been a long time since I wrote fortran but IIRC the first character on the  
output line was to perform carriage-control of the LPT, so you'd have to  
always have a leading pad character such as a space in order to get the  
output lines to be correct. Some characters were reserved actions, 1 = FF  
 from memory. I've not looked at the code involved but that'd be my first  
thoughts

HTH
Dave


On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:22:31 -0000, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Some time ago, an old version of the Adventure game was found.
> According to Woods, the March 11 files are the originals from Crowther.
>
> https://jerz.setonhill.edu/intfic/colossal-cave-adventure-source-code/
>
> Maybe this is of come historical interest, and could be part of the SIMH
> games kits.  This version builds without modifications with the DEC F40
> compiler.  I tested this in ITS.  Credits to the person who provided
> build instructions on YouTube!
>
> Unfortunately, there's a problem: All lines output by the program are
> missing the very first character.  I tried to look at the file input
> code, and the SPEAK subroutine, but I'm not well versed in FORTRAN IV.
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