Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !

[Eric Christopherson]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton <sales at elecplus.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?
> > >>
> > >> 1. Clear the screen for the next page!
> > >>
> > > Clear Screen was CLS, IIRC.
> > 
> > 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.

Ah, found it. It's in the _Second Book_: <http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=09479>

-- 
        Eric Christopherson