21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
7:46 a.m.
Has any of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and
coded it into a text RPG in basic? if so how well did it work as soon as
I get all my Commodore 64 setup on CHRISTmas day that is the first thing
that I am going to start working on. The one I am doing is *" THE DRAGON
OF DOOM "* I have been brushing up on my coding skills with old books
like BASIC COMPUTER GAMES AND SUCH... So wirh me luck and if any of you
have done this brfotr please let me know how it ernt? The only Major
things I have forgotten are...
1. Clear the screen for the next page!
2, doing the page jumps like in the book it will say if your want top
enter turn to page 356 ot
if you want to keep walking turn to page 17 that is the code I have
forgoten But I am sure you all will be able to help me make this game
the best it can be. I wish I fould add hiypointd and damage points find
gold but I guess when I get to that Ill ask only after I dearch th net
for awncers. thanks yall GOD BLESS AND MERRY CHRISTmas!
'
22 Dec
22 Dec
1:04 a.m.
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Has any of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and coded it into a
text RPG in basic? if so how well did it work as soon as I get all my Commodore 64 setup
on CHRISTmas day that is the first thing that I am going to start working on. The one I am
doing is *" THE DRAGON OF DOOM "* I have been brushing up on my coding skills
with old books like BASIC COMPUTER GAMES AND SUCH... So wirh me luck and if any of you
have done this brfotr please let me know how it ernt? The only Major things I have
forgotten are...
1. Clear the screen for the next page!
2, doing the page jumps like in the book it will say if your want top enter turn to page
356 ot if you want to keep walking turn to page 17 that is the code I have forgoten But I
am sure you all will be able to help me make this game the best it can be. I wish I fould
add hiypointd and damage points find gold but I guess when I get to that Ill ask only
after I dearch th net for awncers. thanks yall GOD BLESS AND MERRY CHRISTmas!
'
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1:38 a.m.
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton <sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
For TRS-80 BASIC, I think. For Commodore BASIC, it's
PRINT CHR$(147)
(you can also type PRINT and a quote and hit SHIFT-CLR HOME and
another quote, which works well when you want to print a string that
starts by clearing the screen and going to the top left corner, then
has other movement and/or text)
There are a number of Commodore BASIC books out there, and for
beginner stuff, the one that comes with the machine (if you get one in
the box) will get you started.
-ethan
Has any of you
took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and coded it into a text RPG in
basic?
1. Clear the screen for the next page!
Clear Screen was CLS, IIRC.
2:42 p.m.
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On 12/22/2015 01:38 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton
<sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
For TRS-80 BASIC, I think. For Commodore
BASIC, it's
PRINT CHR$(147)
(you can also type PRINT and a quote and hit SHIFT-CLR HOME and
another quote, which works well when you want to print a string that
starts by clearing the screen and going to the top left corner, then
has other movement and/or text)
There are a number of Commodore BASIC books out there, and for
beginner stuff, the one that comes with the machine (if you get one in
the box) will get you started.
-ethan
In Qbasic it's CLS
Also your right Ethan and thank you that did the trick print CHR$ (147)
IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as in...
10 PRINT " HELLO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? " PNAME$
20 CLS
20 SLEEP=10 <----PAUSE FOR 10 SECONDS
30 PRINT "HELLO" PNAME$ "yOUR STARTING A ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOU
THROUGH THE"
40 PRINT "MISTY MOUNTAINS "
=============================================================
How would the sleep function work in basic I have tryed 10 sleeo=10, 10
"sleep=5" its not working...
But thanks again Ethan!!!
Has any
of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and coded it into a text RPG
in basic?
1. Clear the screen for the next page!
Clear Screen was CLS, IIRC. 
23 Dec
23 Dec
6:58 a.m.
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Also your right Ethan and thank you that did the trick print CHR$ (147)
IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as in...
10 PRINT " HELLO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? " PNAME$
20 CLS
20 SLEEP=10 <----PAUSE FOR 10 SECONDS
30 PRINT "HELLO" PNAME$ "yOUR STARTING A ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOU
THROUGH THE"
40 PRINT "MISTY MOUNTAINS "
=============================================================
How would the sleep function work in basic I have tryed 10 sleeo=10, 10
"sleep=5" its not working...
But thanks again Ethan!!!
If it does not appear in your version of BASIC's manual it won't work like
it does in QBASIC, at least not out of the box.
--
Bill
10:24 a.m.
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> > IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as
in...
> > 20 SLEEP=10 <----PAUSE FOR 10 SECONDS
> How would the sleep function work in basic I have tryed 10 sleeo=10,
> 10 "sleep=5" its not working...
> But thanks again Ethan!!!
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, william degnan wrote:
If it does not appear in your version of BASIC's
manual it won't work like
it does in QBASIC, at least not out of the box.
I don't even know which BASIC you are trying to translate into, . . .
IF it is using 10 as an argument to a function called sleep,
then try SLEEP(10) or SLEEP (10)
1 Jan
1 Jan
8:35 p.m.
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Mike wrote:
IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as in...
10 PRINT " HELLO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? " PNAME$
20 CLS
20 SLEEP=10 <----PAUSE FOR 10 SECONDS
30 PRINT "HELLO" PNAME$ "yOUR STARTING A ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOU
THROUGH THE"
40 PRINT "MISTY MOUNTAINS "
=============================================================
How would the sleep function work in basic I have tryed 10 sleeo=10, 10
"sleep=5" its not working...
You have to make a loop that will last a certain amount of time. A
common thing was to say something like
20 FOR I=0 TO 100:NEXT
-- varying the number after TO to produce a different length of delay.
Commodore BASIC is slow, but I'm sure a loop from 0 to 100 won't take
anywhere near 10 seconds; you can play around with it.
The more complex and more accurate way was to use the TI and TI$
variables to actually count off a given amount of time. If I remember
correctly, for 10 seconds it would be like this:
20 TI$="000000"
21 IF TI<(10*60) THEN 21
TI$ is a string that refers to the current system time (time since
poweron); the first two digits are hour, the second pair minutes, the
last two seconds. TI is a closely-related one that returns the number of
jiffies (1/60-second slices) in the system time. 10*60 converts jiffies
to seconds.
But I wouldn't impose this artificial wait; I certainly wouldn't want to
play a game that did that. Maybe you're just trying to make it more
period-correct by emulating 1541 loading times, in which case the delay
should be much longer ;)
--
Eric Christopherson
2 Jan
2 Jan
3:28 p.m.
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Subject: Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! !
!
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Mike wrote:
I'm not sure which version of Basic Mike is trying to use, but Spectrum
Basic (atleast the 128K variety) had a Wait instruction, for example:
200 Wait 50 : Rem wait 1 second
210 Rem do something here...
Where the number following the Wait instruction indicated the number of
50ths of a second to wait (I suspect that would have been 60ths of a second
for the Timex Sinclair models, if they had BASIC).
Regards,
Andrew Burton
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
www.aliensrcooluk.com
IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as in...
10 PRINT " HELLO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? " PNAME$
20 CLS
20 SLEEP=10 <----PAUSE FOR 10 SECONDS
30 PRINT "HELLO" PNAME$ "yOUR STARTING A ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOU
THROUGH THE"
40 PRINT "MISTY MOUNTAINS "
=============================================================
How would the sleep function work in basic I have tryed 10 sleeo=10, 10
"sleep=5" its not working...
You have to make a loop that will last a certain amount of time. A
common thing was to say something like
20 FOR I=0 TO 100:NEXT
1 Jan
1 Jan
8:24 p.m.
New subject: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton
<sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
For TRS-80 BASIC, I think. For Commodore BASIC, it's
PRINT CHR$(147)
(you can also type PRINT and a quote and hit SHIFT-CLR HOME and
another quote, which works well when you want to print a string that
starts by clearing the screen and going to the top left corner, then
has other movement and/or text)
There are a number of Commodore BASIC books out there, and for
beginner stuff, the one that comes with the machine (if you get one in
the box) will get you started.
-ethan
There is a very nice archive of PDFs of Commodore books, including
programming ones, at <http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm>.
Here's another one, with several books specifically on text adventures:
<http://www.c64music.co.uk/books/>. And of course there are others at
<https://archive.org>.
I remember in my younger days having fun modifying the game "Emerald
Elephant of Cipangu" from this Ahoy! issue 10 (October 1984):
<https://archive.org/details/ahoy-magazine-10>. It was pretty close to a
choose-your-own-adventure; no Infocom-style multi-word parser or
anything.
I also remember a game in what I think was a COMPUTE! compilation, where
you played someone stuck on an enemy spaceship; but I can't seem to find
it right now.
--
Eric Christopherson
Has any
of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and coded it into a text RPG
in basic?
1. Clear the screen for the next page!
Clear Screen was CLS, IIRC.
11:34 p.m.
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On Fri, Jan 01, 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Ah, found it. It's in the _Second Book_:
<http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=09479>
--
Eric Christopherson
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton
<sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
For TRS-80 BASIC, I think. For Commodore BASIC, it's
PRINT CHR$(147)
(you can also type PRINT and a quote and hit SHIFT-CLR HOME and
another quote, which works well when you want to print a string that
starts by clearing the screen and going to the top left corner, then
has other movement and/or text)
There are a number of Commodore BASIC books out there, and for
beginner stuff, the one that comes with the machine (if you get one in
the box) will get you started.
-ethan
There is a very nice archive of PDFs of Commodore books, including
programming ones, at <http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm>.
Here's another one, with several books specifically on text adventures:
<http://www.c64music.co.uk/books/>. And of course there are others at
<https://archive.org>.
I remember in my younger days having fun modifying the game "Emerald
Elephant of Cipangu" from this Ahoy! issue 10 (October 1984):
<https://archive.org/details/ahoy-magazine-10>. It was pretty close to a
choose-your-own-adventure; no Infocom-style multi-word parser or
anything.
I also remember a game in what I think was a COMPUTE! compilation, where
you played someone stuck on an enemy spaceship; but I can't seem to find
it right now. Has any
of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and coded it into a text RPG
in basic?
1. Clear the screen for the next page!
Clear Screen was CLS, IIRC. 
22 Dec
22 Dec
1:17 a.m.
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On 12/21/2015 04:46 AM, Mike wrote:
Has any of you took one of them old choose your own
adventurer books and
coded it into a text RPG in basic? if so how well did it work as soon as
I get all my Commodore 64 setup on CHRISTmas day that is the first thing
that I am going to start working on. The one I am doing is *" THE DRAGON
OF DOOM "* I have been brushing up on my coding skills with old books
like BASIC COMPUTER GAMES AND SUCH...
In a similar vein, I found in the used book store by my house a year or
two ago, "The Bytes Brothers" Volume 2. Billed as a "Solve-it-yourself
computer mystery, it takes you through a story, with clues, the idea is
to write a basic program to solve some of the puzzles through-out the
book. It's pretty simple stuff, but would be perfect for an 8-9 year
old just learning some BASIC on their family's home computer. I've
looked around for these and haven't found these in any other used stores.
...and now that I check amazon, the entire series of these is out there
for about a penny a piece, I may have to burn a Christmas dollar,
literally just one to get the rest.
http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Program-Problem--Yourself-Computer/dp/055324…
--Jason
1:21 a.m.
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On 12/21/2015 10:17 PM, Jason Howe wrote:
On 12/21/2015 04:46 AM, Mike wrote:
I see now that I completely mis-read your original post.....sorry for my
off-topic reply. Best of luck in your quest!
--Jason
Has any of you took one of them old choose your
own adventurer books and
coded it into a text RPG in basic? if so how well did it work as soon as
I get all my Commodore 64 setup on CHRISTmas day that is the first thing
that I am going to start working on. The one I am doing is *" THE DRAGON
OF DOOM "* I have been brushing up on my coding skills with old books
like BASIC COMPUTER GAMES AND SUCH...
In a similar vein, I found in the used book store by my house a year
or two ago, "The Bytes Brothers" Volume 2. Billed as a
"Solve-it-yourself computer mystery, it takes you through a story,
with clues, the idea is to write a basic program to solve some of the
puzzles through-out the book. It's pretty simple stuff, but would be
perfect for an 8-9 year old just learning some BASIC on their family's
home computer. I've looked around for these and haven't found these
in any other used stores.
...and now that I check amazon, the entire series of these is out
there for about a penny a piece, I may have to burn a Christmas
dollar, literally just one to get the rest.
http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Program-Problem--Yourself-Computer/dp/055324…
--Jason 
30 Dec
30 Dec
1:46 p.m.
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On 21 December 2015 at 13:46, Mike <tulsamike3434 at gmail.com> wrote:
Has any of you took one of them old choose your own
adventurer books and
coded it into a text RPG in basic?
Blimey, yes, I have -- but in about 1983!
Even then, given my very meagre programming ability, I found it a dull
project. The simplistic way of doing it was a lot of GOTOs -- which is
basically what the book is -- and the proper way, with a database of
text and jumps, was tedious.
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