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

[shaun.bebbington@livepublishing.co.uk (Shaun Bebbington)]

Paul Allen Panks <panks@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote in message news:<cbqllh$60f$1@chessie.cirr.com>...
> "The 1st Annual 1 to 2K Classic Text Adventure Competition"
> 
> Website: http://panks.freeshell.org/advcomp.html
> 
> Is it possible to write a text adventure in under 2K of RAM? Some people 
> have tried, and some have succeeded.
> 
> I would like to officially announce the formation of The 1st Annual 1 to 
> 2K Classic Text Adventure Competition. I will be accepting BASIC, C/C++, 
> Fortran and Assembly language submissions for 1 to 2K text adventures 
> written for the following computing platforms: Commodore 
> 64/128/+4/Vic-20/PET, TI 99/4A, IBM PC/PCJr, Atari 400/800, Apple II/IIe, 
> Sinclair, TRS-80, Color Computer, Acorn, Tomy Tutor, Linux, Mac and 
> Windows/DOS.
> 
> Please submit your 1 to 2K adventure games to me, source code format only. 
> The competition officially begins on June 28, 2004, and runs through 
> September 29, 2004. I will post all submissions, regardless of when they 
> were submitted, and then review them and post grades on this page on 
> October 7th. Good luck! =)
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Paul Allen Panks
> dunric@gmail.com
> 
>  -- panks@sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

How about this:

10 PRINT CHR$(147);:PRINT"YOU ARE IN A ROOM."
11 PRINT "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO NOW";:
12 INPUT A$:IF A$=""THEN GOTO 12
13 PRINT "I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT..."
14 GO TO 11

Would that win? ;)

Shaun.