The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by William
Crowther, is available for the QL. Tobias Fröschle obtained the sources from
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/ and ported it to the QL.
Here's the description from my website:
Colossal Cave -
To give credit where credit’s due: It actually isn’t much of a port. Thanks to
the very good unix support of C68 I only had to add my own implementation of
ltoa() and tweak the Makefile a bit. Took only like half an hour. I guess
DIlwyn has had much more work with writing up a README which I
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From: Tobias Fröschle
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:18 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Colossal Cave
To give credit where credit’s due: It actually isn’t much of a port. Thanks
to the very good unix support of C68 I only had to add my own implementation
On 16/02/2014 14:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by William
Crowther, is available for the QL. Tobias Fröschle obtained the sources from
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/ and ported it to the QL.
Does anyone remember
On February 16, 2014 at 8:07 PM Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote:
On 16/02/2014 14:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by
William Crowther, is available for the QL. Tobias Fröschle obtained the
sources from
I won’t bet.
He has.
Am 16.02.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Rich Mellor (RWAP) r...@rwapservices.co.uk:
On February 16, 2014 at 8:07 PM Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote:
On 16/02/2014 14:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by
On February 16, 2014 at 8:54 PM Tobias Fröschle
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote:
I won’t bet.
He has.
Am 16.02.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Rich Mellor (RWAP) r...@rwapservices.co.uk:
On February 16, 2014 at 8:07 PM Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote:
On 16/02/2014 14:50,
, 2014 8:07 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Colossal Cave
On 16/02/2014 14:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by
William Crowther, is available for the QL. Tobias Fröschle obtained the
sources from http://www.ifarchive.org
So he does - Squaddies appears at :
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html
Rich Mellor
Albeit mis-spelled as Squadies...
Dilwyn
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On 16/02/2014 21:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Are you still in touch with Bob, Wayne? It's MANY years since I last
spoke to him. Probably shortly after the game was originally released. I
think I got the game on one of Ron Dunnett's PD disks IIRC.
Not for a decade or more now. Last time we spoke
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