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From: pss@unh.UUCP (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Adventure is being REALLY dain-bramaged....
Summary: Data tables are...
Message-ID: <1151@unh.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 21:43:14 GMT
References: <12537@reed.UUCP> <687@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
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In article <687@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>, ralph@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) writes:
> The original Crowther/Woods Colossal Cave adventure does that when it first
> runs.  It reads the plain text database and then dumps out a compressed
> database file that loads up very much faster for subsequent runs.  The idea
...
It seems to read everything into program arrays, then give you a chance
to interrupt and save the core image (ADVENT.EXE on a DEC-10, I think)


> The sections are (I think):
> 
>   1 - Long description of each location
>   2 - Short description of some locations
>   3 - Travel table (which words to use to get from location M to locaction N)
If I may fill in:
=   4   Vocabulary
    5   Object descriptions and
>   ?   Inventory (all object including treasures)

=   6   Random messages
    7   Object locations
    8   Action Defaults
    9   Liquid assets, etc.
   10   Class Messages (Your standing, from "rank amateur" to "adventurer
	grandmaster")
   11   Hint numbers

>   ?   Special messages
=  12   Magic messages
> 
> I forget the rest, it's been a long time...  I think your problem is that
> it is unable to open the file 'advent' to store the compressed database.
> That never used to stop it from running, though.  Mind you, I'm going back
> to the days of 150 locations, max score of 350 and the whole thing written
> in Fortran IV :-)
> 
> Ralph Mitchell


(And my dusty copy was FORTRAN-10 for a DEC-10, yet... B-)

So, who did the C port (keeping the run - save database load, etc), and
is it available somewhere by mail or anon. UUCP?  (I was always going
to port it myself RSN, but...  B-)

		Thanks, Paul (in a maze of twisty little passages...)

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