Been a long time since I wrote fortran but IIRC the first character on the
output line was to perform carriage-control of the LPT, so you'd have to
always have a leading pad character such as a space in order to get the
output lines to be correct. Some characters were reserved actions, 1 = FF
from memory. I've not looked at the code involved but that'd be my first
thoughts
HTH
Dave
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:22:31 -0000, Lars Brinkhoff <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
Some time ago, an old version of the Adventure game was found.
According to Woods, the March 11 files are the originals from Crowther.
https://jerz.setonhill.edu/intfic/colossal-cave-adventure-source-code/
Maybe this is of come historical interest, and could be part of the SIMH
games kits. This version builds without modifications with the DEC F40
compiler. I tested this in ITS. Credits to the person who provided
build instructions on YouTube!
Unfortunately, there's a problem: All lines output by the program are
missing the very first character. I tried to look at the file input
code, and the SPEAK subroutine, but I'm not well versed in FORTRAN IV.
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