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Re: The 1st Annual 1-2K Text Adventure Competition

Nele Abels <muell.2.neleabels@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

>Adam Thornton schrieb:
>[...]
> > Scott Adams games actually only need a few dozen bytes of RAM.  Most of the game
> > (16K in the classical games) is ROM.
>
>Huh? What do you mean with that? The original Scott Adams games which I ran
>on my original TRS-80 Model I required 16KB of RAM. Are you perhaps talking
>about game cartridges for the CoCo? The games originally came on tape. The
>interpreter itself takes only couple of KB, the databases normally are about
>12KB lare.

     The part that needs to be changeable is very little.  Most is the
interpreter and the data tables.  These do not change.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.