[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Carey Tyler Schug]

Whoops, memories are slowly coming back, I think.  Adventure was always 
Fortran.  It was Zork that was originally written in the proprietary 
list processing language.


On 02/02/2018 01:07 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
>> I had always been told it was first written in some proprietary DEC
>> list processing language, and only later converted to FORTRAN.  Is
>> this the original conversion?
> They are the oldest files that have been found, as far as I know.
> According to Woods, they are the Crowther version.
>
>> Did anybody suggest the following fix to put a blank in the carriage
>> control position??
>>
>> 998     FORMAT(1H ,20A5)
> Thanks, that did the trick!
>
> I see that the data file from which the strings are read do prefix all
> strings with a space character.  So it looks like the intent is that
> FORMAT(20A5) should do the right thing.
>
> Maybe the root cause is in the code reading the data file.  But your
> suggestion is a good workaround.
>