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Well, then there’s an idea. Why don’t you research their work and then make video about them? I’m subscribed to you BTW.

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Thank you!

Adam :slightly_smiling_face::pray:

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Just for fun I tried setting up a virtual Raspberry Pi in Virtualbox. Installing Ruby & ScottKit was pretty straightforward for me.

sudo apt install ruby-full

sudo gem install scottkit

ScottKit is then installed with docs and games in /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/gems/scottkit-1.6.0/

I tried to decompile a gamefile (had to unzip it first) and everything seemed to work alright.

scottkit -d adv01.dat

# 34 rooms, 66 items, 170 actions
# 76 messages, 13 treasures, 70 verbs/nouns
ident 1
version 416
wordlen 3
maxload 6
lighttime 125
unknown1 5953
unknown2 819
start forest
treasury swamp

verbgroup GO ENT RUN WAL CLI
verbgroup CHO CUT
verbgroup GET TAK PIC CAT
verbgroup LIG "." IGN BUR
verbgroup DRO REL SPI LEA GIV POU
verbgroup THR TOS
verbgroup LOO EXA DES
verbgroup ATT SLA KIL
verbgroup DRI EAT
verbgroup FIN LOC
verbgroup SAY SPE CAL
verbgroup SCR YEL HOL
verbgroup MAK BUI
verbgroup WAV TIC KIC KIS TOU FEE FUC HIT POK

noungroup AXE AX
noungroup BOT CON
noungroup MUD MED
noungroup OIL SLI
noungroup CHI BIT
noungroup WEB WRI
noungroup LAV DAM
noungroup TRE STU
noungroup SHO BAN

room swamp1 "dismal swamp"
        exit north meadow
        exit east hole
        exit west grove

room tree "top of a tall cypress tree"
        exit down swamp1

room swamp "damp hollow stump in the swamp"
        exit up swamp1
        exit down stump
...

What was it you didn’t get to work?

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Thank you so much for doing this for me! It’s obvious that the standard RPi Ruby installation is incomplete. Once I installed ruby completely, it works just fine!

Doing that line above took less than 10 minutes. That is what was missing from the instruction. Maybe someone should let Mike Taylor know about it so that he can update the installation instructions. Otherwise, it’ll be “Error installing scottkit”

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My motives for setting up a virtual RPi wasn’t entirely altruistic… I’ve been thinking of setting it up for quite som time for other reasons, so this was a good spark to make it happen. Thank you!

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