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10 PRINT "HELLO "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN Ah, the memories. But I forgot how to break out of such a loop. Lucky there's a hard/soft reset option in the website menu...
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN As seen in the BBC cult classic Look Around You intro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU
Frak worked first time, haven't seen that in a while. Very nice. There are loads of good text adventures on BBC and of course Elite but has anyone else got any good recommends?
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I used to love the puzzle adventure things like Repton. edit - and Castle Quest and Ravenskull.
I'd forgotten about Repton! Is Granny's Garden available freely - I seem to remember they are still trying to sell it!
Never got a chance to use a BBC, but I did read Peter Killworth's “How to write Adventure Games” at one point: http://www.mocagh.org/softguide/writeadventuregames.pdf
Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising: = -> ↑ ' -> : : -> + and so on. Why? Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.
The BBC Micro had what is called a "bit-paired" keyboard.
It also had copy cursor keys and a reset key.
Frak worked first time, haven't seen that in a while. Very nice. There are loads of good text adventures on BBC and of course Elite but has anyone else got any good recommends?
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*RUN"ELITE3"
without a working "*" key, makes it pretty unusable!