Finally I'm making a game

[mjnurney]

After 20 years , I've finally got around to writting another adventure game. On the mac , inform 7 - kindly pointed out to me on here.

No structure to the game I'm just playing with it at the mo

but if I don't make a hash of it , I'll pop it here or provide a link for you all to pull it to bits

I wanted to write on the Amiga but I'm having trouble finding something to write one with.

I have the following to play with at some point and maybe I will but as usual I have no manuals :-(
Seuck
blitz basic
Amos
Amos 3d

but my greatest love is adventure games really ,

 

[Hivernaal]

Hello, i've got few .pdf files and .adf support files for blitz basic 2 if you want...

 

[Templar]

If you will decide on AMOS, then choose AMOS Pro. A good alternative is of course Blitz Basic 2.

Ignore SEUCK, just suxx.

 

[mjnurney]

yes any PDf would be very welcomed

i dont like seuck really , besides i dont like shoot em ups for a start!

adventure, strategy were always my thing - i like to think , although the fog of age is making thinking harder , spelling more difficult and getting of the sofa impossible!

most of the amiga stuff is on ADF so its easily acquired but of course no manuals..

 

[ad-rs1600i]

I stumbled across this resource containing manuals for AMOS recently on here:-

http://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/AMOS:Resources
&
http://www.platon42.de/download.html

Well done honestly, I would like to make a seriously crude basic game at some point in my life to forfill a childhood ambition!

Good luck

Adrian

 

[Templar]

If you like adventures then you can try GRAAL here.

I used to have a program in the old days, which you could write your own text-adventures only, but I don't recall its name; maybe Visionary? something like that.

 

[mjnurney]

yes thanks, i have GRAAL too , but im just working on text at the moment ...

- visionary? i dont know that one ...

there are a few text creators on aminet but the need compiling and i must admit im finding inform 7 fun to play with ....i wonder if we could get stuff over to the Amiga with it

 

[Templar]

Yes, it was Visionary, but it was commercial. Quite good and easy-to-use.

 

[mjnurney]

i'll have a look for that thank you

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ive been reading another forum - someone asked , whats best or easiest tool for writing a text adventure...

well as the forum goes on and on - page 1,2,3,4,5,.... by page 6 they are almost fighting about who's basic is best! lol

life too short to argue!

 

[davideo]

I've attached an example I rewrote from a Toshiba MSX game.

This was done over 15 years ago

Ignore the programming skills - I just needed to convert the game for my two daughters to play on the Amiga when I decided to flog my MSX.

You need to copy the font in the fonts drawer into your system fonts.

Load the program up in Amos_Pro and run it.

As per normal with any software package I can't promise this won't harm your Miggy but it works fine on mine.

Unpack the zip file to create the adf.

Dave G

 

[mjnurney]

thank you Davideo thats very kind of you , i'll fire a miggy up soon and try that.



did your daughters like it?

 

[davideo]

Yes - that's why I had to rewrite it on the Miggy.

I found Amiga Basic tooooooo slow for anything like this.

I'd got Amos free on a cover disc and decided to give that a try.

I wrote several programs with it, i.e. a Video SubTitler, HI-Lo card game, Hangman etc.

Had quite a fun time with it IIRC

Dave G

 

[SJBUK]

Just as an alternative have you ever played with TinyMUCK or the like?

It's a Multi-user text adventure system where you build the world around you in real-time. Also has its own language, MUF (multi-user Forth) built-in to handle complex stuff.

Not sure if it ever got ported to the Amiga but i think it did end up on Apple and PC as well as most Unix type os's.

Had great fun with it in the late 80's and early 90's

 

[mjnurney]

i think i have Amos pro on ADf too so'll pop that on,.

i wonder if inform 7 stuff can be played on an Z machine interpreter on the miggy?

well done Mr Davideo , im trying something kind of similar

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is Amos the creator any good?

 

[Templar]

AMOS the Creator was the first attempt of STOS to Amiga. AMOS Pro, while it seems more difficult, it's not, and it's the latest AMOS version ever released.

 

[davideo]

It's actually exactly the same as the original on the MSX. Even down to the colours and (poor) graphics.

The adf is part one - it comes in four parts!!!

I did a chess board puzzle (you have to move the knight onto each sqaure) with Amos. I'm now redoing that in C. I've nearly got it finished - I just need to sort out the double buffering and a couple of other little bits and then it's done.

To be honest Amos is a hell of a lot easier than C oh:

Dave G

 

[mjnurney]

so Amos pro is the only one worth bothering with?

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im impressed Dave, i wish i had had manuals for stuff back in the day , im sure it would be easier than now , my beer soaked brian is considerably slower than when i was 15

 

[Templar]

so Amos pro is the only one worth bothering with?

Regarding AMOS world, I believe yes. If you want 3D games, then you have to try AMOS 3D.

 

[davideo]

East Amos is supposed to be easier - that's double dutch but I guess you can see what I mean!!

The program I posted earlier will only run on AMos Pro.

Dave G

 

[mjnurney]

i would like to do adventure at first - well because its easier to me and then maybe graphics too and perhaps others too

one step at a time