ScottFree revisited

[auraes]

Hi,
maybe someone should revisited ScottFree source code, there’s few bugs to fix.

In Adventure #8 Pyramid of Doom, in database, some strings are like this:

Cobra crawls out, presses a loose brick and then disappears intoa passage which appeared.

As you can see, there’s is no character space between ‘into’ and ‘a’ (“intoa”), because the TRS-80 has 64 caracters per line so the character ‘a’ jump to the next line :

Cobra crawls out, presses a loose brick and then disappears into
a passage which appeared.

But in ScotFree, not:

Cobra crawls out, presses a loose brick and then disappears intoa passage which appeared.

And ScotFree with -t option (“Generate TRS80 style display (terminal width is 64 characters; a line <-----------------> is displayed after the top stuff; objects have periods after them instead of hyphens”):

“Cobra crawls out, presses a loose brick and then disappears
intoa passage which appeared.”

An other thing, you can find that in the README of asfdcurs.tar.gz in if-archive, with a better english that me:

If action 52 (Get, with a check on carrying capacity) fails–i.e. you don’t get it because you’ve got too much–now abort the rest of the action line. This is the behavior of the VIC-20 driver, and it makes sense in every case I can see within games I have in ScottFree format (with the possible exception of MAKE FUEL in Buckaroo Banzai).

And it’s true.

I think it’s a good job for DavidG.