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by auraes
Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:36 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
Replies: 49
Views: 64992

Re: Gilsoft PAW/Quill

The action 'print flagno' for the BBC is missing in the list of your reference guide for The Quil & AdventurWriter - List of CondActs.
by auraes
Sun Oct 04, 2020 1:25 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
Replies: 49
Views: 64992

Re: Gilsoft PAW/Quill


A vocab word is just a word and can be placed in either position; so word _ is the same as _ word.

I would have preferred to say that _ word is equivalent to _ _, but it amounts to the same thing.

What advantages over the existing unQuill to Z-code route would that give? Presumably, as the ...
by auraes
Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:50 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
Replies: 49
Views: 64992

Re: Gilsoft PAW/Quill

The Quill Editor accepts the following entries:
Verb Noun combination: (each word must be in the dictionary)
word word
word _
_ _
_ word (the word is skipped!)
But I don't understand the point of the latter since the word is ignored. It's a pity because it would have been very useful.

I'm ...
by auraes
Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:30 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
Replies: 49
Views: 64992

Re: Gilsoft PAW/Quill

There are some typos in your reference guide for The Quill: System Messages.
24: I can't[]My hands are full.
29: I'm already w[era]ring it.
by auraes
Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:10 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

There seems to be a bug in the PAW A17C interpreter. Because of the forced line feed, there is a reverse video character that shouldn't be there.
LOCATION 0
{
"You are in a Huge Room in the Castle. There are doors to the {20}{1}WEST{20}{0} and {20}{1}SOUTH{20}{0}.";
}
You are in a Huge Room in ...
by auraes
Sat Sep 05, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

I added a PAWS version, well advanced.
by auraes
Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:02 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

Thank you Dorothy for your response.
The source code is on my GitLab repository.
by auraes
Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:38 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

Whether you have a ZX Spectrum Next or not, will not make this world better or worse.
You can kill Santa Claus (Père Noël), I never believed it.
by auraes
Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:06 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard


I'd love a Next but wouldn't have been able to afford one
I was sure you already had one! Apply for a quick fundraiser and I will contribute. If I don't feel like a ZX Spectrum Next - Issue 2 for me, it would be my pleasure if you have one. With all the work and knowledge you have on the subject ...
by auraes
Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:25 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

Okay. Let's get back to the subject.
Some errors found:
- It is possible to examine the castle from anywhere, but especially the message 33 can never be displayed.
>X CAST
MESSAGE 15 "This is where the mean giant lives!"
DONE
>X CAST
MESSAGE 33 "This is the castle where the giant lives."
DONE ...
by auraes
Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:31 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

I believe you.
I'm not nostalgic for those days. What do you think of the ZX Spectrum Next; does it make sense to you?
by auraes
Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:10 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard


I wrote games in BASIC that weren't published.
I thought you were one of the few people who still have a critical mind when testing games, but maybe it's just that you're a little frustrated and cranky that you never had a game published when you were a kid!
I myself had a game on ZX81, stupid ...
by auraes
Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:54 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

I will be curious to see the result of the code produced by such a tool. A 'The Quill compatible' mode in Adventuron could be nice.
by auraes
Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:27 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

In some sentences, there are two spaces after the period. David Griffith also does this in some Inform 6 library messages. Is this an English rule?
This is a problem with Adventuron, because it contracts the spaces into one (I don't know if you can put a character in a string with its ASCII or ...
by auraes
Wed Sep 02, 2020 9:05 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard
Replies: 28
Views: 12604

Re: Land of the Giants (C64), Dorothy Millard

There are some synonyms to reconstruct that remain mysterious to me:
Word 10: D, DOWN, DESC(END), INTR(?)
Word 109: VERI(?), VERS(ION)