Did some maintenance on Mystic Dungeon, now has usable skills & high-level jobs. I haven't playtested this much, but it Rogue vs Warrior plays different. Magic types still don't have any spells, I suggest rerolling if you get Apprentice or Druid.
TinyBasicWeb got disk cleanup & another Creative Computing game, including fixing a 50-year-old bug! (you could bet negative to "lose" more money).
IN THE CYBER HOLE!
https://cyberhole.online/
It was getting messy in the TinyBasicWeb "disk", so there are now directories
IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/
It's 1982, and you're a latch-key kid. A storm is rolling in.
Making progress on the little BASIC text adventure. It's only like 400 lines for 11 rooms so far, I figure 100-ish rooms when I'm done.
Goblins might also get done this week.
And it wouldn't hurt to click that Patreon button, like & subscribe!
https://cyberhole.online
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing #textAdventure #interactiveFiction
For your elocution and amusement,
the talking computer,
IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=eliza.bas
WARNING: ELIZA is not your girlfriend.
ELIZA is not becoming sapient.
ELIZA is not "artificial intelligence", or even artificial stupidity.
ELIZA must not be connected to nuclear weapons!
Kind of a fun port because the one in CC doesn't have string arrays, it does slow RESTORE: READ loops to find each word. I just stuff arrays full of strings.
The Long Awaited Saga of the For/Next Loop
IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online
After much updating & rebooting of my server:
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=testfor.bas
which is not visually stimulating but it does work. Once I've had lunch I'll see about using it in anger.
See also new phlog in the Cyber Gopher Hole.
I've taken down the Mudhole until I can give it some love/attention/beatings with https, and LostWorld because it doesn't do anything yet.
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing
@amoroso @jalanhenning I do somewhat similar with my BASIC programs
IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/
(type `dir`, `run "whatever.bas"`)
but structured BASIC is too much like "real work". The line numbers and limited variable names are the fun part, it's a little puzzle game in addition to making the game or demo.
My dev notes are just comments in the file as I work. If it's so big it needs a spec, it probably isn't a good BASIC game.
I got the world map generating (almost correct? Too random.), but haven't made it render or do anything yet.
"I don't even see the numbers anymore, just Redhead, Blonde, Brunette…"
Am tired. Maybe tomorrow. Ugh, tomorrow's a big paperwork day.
I have also restored the Patreon
https://patreon.com/mdhughes
And, you know, no pressure but a few patrons would make regularly making new games and weird stuff easier.
#cyberhole
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