Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer

cover-thumbFrom 1983. I remember reading this book obsessively as I tried to develop my own versions of Zork . I was in middle school learning how to write a language parser. Nerd!

470 N=1
480 IF MID$(A$,N,1)=" " THEN C$=MID$(A$,N+1,3):
IF LEFT$(C$,1)<>" " THEN 530 ELSE 500
Full text of the book by Tim Hartnell...

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  1. Maryam Webster

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    07/17/2008 at 9:07 PM
  2. Maryam Webster

    Er....being a third party commenter I erred. It was Wargame Construction Set, here:

    http://www.c64sets.com/wargame_construction_set.html

    (um, neener?)

    07/17/2008 at 9:10 PM
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