dphirschler Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Has an 80 column version of Adventure been made yet? Is it even possible? Darryl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I only know of the 80 col Infocom interpreter (running on v9938). I used that one when I played Infocom adventures on my Geneve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Possible, yes of corse. Has it been done, not that I know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) Possible yes, source code to the GROM available probably no.. Easier to try to find the source to a *nix version and compile with GCC.. anyone? http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree/ScottFree.tar.gz Greg Edited June 16, 2016 by arcadeshopper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 There are two things that need to collide here: ScottFree, a C implementation of Scott Adam's Adventure interpreter, that is open source, GPL. And GCC for the TI... It looks like you'd just have to re-write the disk access and the screen handling. Maybe add a scroll back feature in AMS if available, and or larger database support. I was thinking 80 column adventure would be nice to have just a couple days ago. -M@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXscott-adamsXinterpretersXscottfree.html Oops, Greg beat me to this... -M@ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXscott-adamsXinterpretersXscottfree.html Oops, Greg beat me to this... -M@ ...full serverbackup is running. I´ll tell how much GBs. Good stuff. thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 By the way, you might want to look at something in another directory on that same server. . .it takes TI-99/4A Adventure files as the input data. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Torrax Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) What about using the lower 8K for the program. And keep the upper 24K free for the SA database. I think the original SA-DB limit was about 14K. I have a partial GPL disassembly of the Adventure module somewhere on one of my PC systems. Edited June 17, 2016 by Torrax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The McGoverns (Will and Tony) wrote an Infocom loader that loads adventure games in 80 column years ago. It works fine with a 9938/9958 system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKarith Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 If a new 80 column capable version were done, that'd be cool. If it were done with 40 column support still working, more's the better. If one could convert between the TI format and the "standard" format, better still. I have this cart and it's just sitting here because I have no cassettes and haven't gone looking for cassette files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Screenshots taken from the Geneve emulation in MAME 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Torrax Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 That's not a Scott Adams interpreter, but the Infocom Z3 interpreter (disk). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elia Spallanzani fdt Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Removed Edited February 19, 2022 by Elia Spallanzani fdt Mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Curious if we can take the Adventure GROM and make some slight adjustments to detect and put it in 80 column. Oh, I miss Gazoo… he could have done it easily. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I have always found the original 40 column format to work quite well because unlike the Infocom games, descriptive text tended to be kept pretty short. That said, Thom Cherryhomes adapted the ScottFree interpreter to the Coleco Adam which has a similar VDP to the TI, but using the bitmap mode to create a 51 column display, Very effective although the text rendering is a tad slow. Here's a link to the project: http://smartbasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=174. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I know that it's "hidden" in the development subforum and not quite finished... but it's been a topic since 2018. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 11 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: I know that it's "hidden" in the development subforum and not quite finished... but it's been a topic since 2018. It looks like you were pretty much there! Looking forward to seeing the end product. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 On 3/10/2022 at 7:41 AM, Vorticon said: It looks like you were pretty much there! Looking forward to seeing the end product. I posted a binary cart image for "Adventure 80" in the dev topic. Work is keeping me quite busy this month, so rather than let it languish another 6 months, I put it out there for people to 'test'. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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