Re: Best text adventures

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:44:14 +0100, Rod at Orpheusmail  
<GroverR@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <4f1d1d2392john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> John Cartmell <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <1188906867.020480.282170@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> <chris.moore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> What are the best text adventures that are compatible with RiscOS  
>>> (through
>>> native, ****ted, interpreter or emulator)?
>
>> Who for?
>> What version of RISC OS?
>> How much time have you got?
>
>> Essential:
> [snip]
>> Wonderland
> [snip]
>
>> Links and leads in Qercus 278, 283, and 284.
>
> I quite liked Wonderland and fired it up the other day on my Arc 420/1.
I
> never quite got to the end when I played it years ago. I tried to get it
> working on my Risc PC but with no luck. Has anyone got it running (on a 

> Risc
> PC that is)?
>
> Regards,
> Rod
>

I managed it (it was a standalone big-box version): The filenames to the  
actual data files are hardwired so the text files within the .rdf  
directory had to be updated so that they point to the corresponding files 

within the .rsc one. There *may* also have been some alterations to the  
WIN main file - probabaly just a few SWIs that I just NV'd until it worked
 
:-)

I remember writing a clunky (ie rubbish) BASIC thing that automatically  
updated the .rdf text files to wherever <Wonderland$Dir> pointed to (as  
variables themselves didn't work, and the CSD needed to be set as well.  
Did the same thing to the 'Scrolls Collection, iirc. Long time ago, but it
 
did work! I could even dig out the file...

Cheers,

Mark


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