EDIT: I have figured this out. My problem was using the 3-letter abbreviation DRO. If I use DROP instead, the problem is solved.
For the Year of Adventure I’m creating a game in Scott Adams format, using Mike Taylor’s compiler sac. I’m running into a problem with trying to display a custom message when dropping a specific object.
Here’s a short sample game source that illustrates the problem:
%start r1
%wordlen 3
%action Q
%result
game_over
%valias Q QUI
%action INV
%result
inventory
%room r1
little room
%exit e r2
%item ball
Ball
%getdrop BAL
%room r2
big room
%exit w r1
%item stick
Stick
%action GET STI
here stick
%result
get stick
msg I got it!
%action DRO STI
carried stick
%result
drop stick
msg Dropped.I compile the game with sac, and play it with Gargoyle.
Getting either object and dropping the stick all work fine, but when I try to DROP BALL I get the response, “I don’t understand your command.”
I was wondering if maybe this is just a limitation of the format, that you can’t give a custom response to a DROP command.
But Adventureland does it with several objects, and Voodoo Castle does it with the rabbit’s foot.
Is this a bug in sac?