[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Kevin Handy]

Then, adventure was converted to many other languages by thousands of fans.
Numerous basic, C, zil,  etc. versions exist. Probably the most cloned
program of all time.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Carey Tyler Schug <sqrfolkdnc at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
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