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Home Computing Weekly |
Here it is! Our first Amstrad program, by Steve Lucas Home Computing Weekly is proud to publish its first Amstrad program, written for us by regular contributor Steve Lucas. It's an adventure game in which you are sent on a difficult, probably dangerous mission to the Castle of Desolation. Your task is to rid the castle of the evil forces which haunt it. Give instructions in the form of two word sentences, as RUB LAMP. To move around, you only need to use a single letter such as N, S, E, W. Here's a list of some of the words understood: HELP, SCORE, PRAY, GO, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, UP, DOWN, IN, OUT, RUB, EAT, DRINK, SHOOT, KILL, ATTACK, HELP, SCORE, GET, TAKE, GRAB, DROP, LEAVE, OPEN, UNLOCK, SHOW, INSERT Hints on conversion This program makes use of the WHILE WEND loop, which is unavailable on most micros. It may be replaced by a REPEAT UNTIL s$ = 10 loop if that is available or alternatively, a conditional GOTO. LOCATE is used to place the cursor at x,y coordinate on the screen. PAPER and PEN are used to select the colours. LOWERS is a function which converts all upper case input into lower case. Lower case letters are unaffected. This is not easy to achieve in most BASICs and you will probably find that it is easier to check just upper case inputs. The Amstrad allows variables to be in cither upper or lower case. Home Computing Weekly #81 |
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