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- Beyond The Tesseract V2.0 Sep/88
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-
- An abstract text adventure by | This adventure is FreeShareAnythingWare.
- David Lo | If you like this program, hate it,
- 4516 Albert St. | or really don't care at all, then
- Burnaby, B.C. V5C 2G5 | I would be happy to to hear from you
- Canada | (a letter, a post-it note, etc).
- 604-291-0690 |
-
- Please share unmodified copies of this adventure with everyone you meet.
-
-
- Scenario:
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- You have reached the final part of your mission. You have gained access
- to the complex, and all but the last procedure has been performed. Now
- comes a time of waiting, in which you must search for the hidden 12-word
- message that will aid you at the final step. But what choice will you
- make when that time comes?
-
- The scenario for the adventure is meant to be vague. Once the adventure has
- been completed, the scenario will hopefully become clear.
-
-
- Instructions:
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- This adventure recognizes the standard commands for moving (N,E,S,W),
- taking inventory (I), maninpulating objects (GET, DROP, LOOK), and
- saving games (SAVE, LOAD), as well as many others. Use 2-word 'verb noun'
- commands, such as 'use stack' or 'get all'. Only the first four letters
- of each word are significant. The adventure recognizes about 200 words,
- so if one word doesn't work, try another.
-
-
- Notes:
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- - The "stack" is an acroynym for Space Time Activated Continuum Key.
- You will find this object very useful.
-
- - This adventure is abstract and a bit on the technical side. Detail
- knowledge of the technical background is not necessary, although it will
- make the adventure more enjoyable.
-
- - There is no carry limit, and no death traps. The map of the adventure can
- be draw on a grid. All it takes is a little experimenting to put all the
- subsets of locations together "logically".
-
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- Compiling Notes:
- ----------------
- - There are three source files for the adventure:
- TESS-DEF.C : adventure world and vocabulary definition
- PARSER.C : command parser
- TESS.C : main adventure file
-
- - The adventure can be compiled using Turbo C 1.5. This will result in the
- adventure using a split-screen format for the display.
-
- - Compiling with the "tty" symbol defined (-Dtty) will result in a
- scrolling, non-IBM dependent display that should work with most compilers
- and terminals.
-
- - The following are some of the "non-classical" C features used:
- enum
- functional prototyping
-
- - In the function "intro", Some compiler may give a warning about the
- variable "k" being used before it's defined. This is intentionally done
- as part of the routine to reseed the random number generator.
-
-
- History:
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- Version Date Machine Language # Lines
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- 1.0 Jun. 1983 16K TRS-80 Level II BASIC 350
- 2.0 Sep. 1988 IBM-XT clone Turbo C 1.5 2500
-
- Tesseract Version 2.0 is my first MS-DOS adventure and an exercise in
- learning C. Since this is a direct port of the old BASIC version, it may be
- smaller than some other adventures, and some of the coding might not be too
- clean. For the C version, appropriate changes were made to the data
- structures, additions and small changes made to some of the puzzles, and the
- ending expanded.
-
- The very first adventure that I wrote was in 1982, titled "Hall of the
- Mountain King" (find the Crystal of Light). Tesseract Version 1.0 was the
- second of the three TRS-80 BASIC adventures that I wrote in a two month
- adventure-frenzy during the summer of 1983. The first was "Project Triad"
- (defuse the bomb on the space station), and the third was "Codename
- Intrepid" (deliver a package to another agent).
-
-
- References:
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- The following books and reference works were used at one time or another
- as a source of information and/or inspiration:
-
- The Beauty of Fractals.
- The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought.
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature.
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
- The Heritage Illustrated Dictionary Of the English Language.
- Mathematics: The New Golden Age.
- The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary, Encyclopedic Edition.
- The Penguin Dictionary of Science, Fifth Edition.
- Roget's International Thesaurus.
- The Science of Fractal Images.
- The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
- The World of M.C. Escher.
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- Tesseract:
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- /*--------------/*
- / ' / '
- / '| / '|
- */----'---------*/ ' |
- '| ' | '| ' |
- ' | ' | ' | ' |
- ' | ' /*----'--|--'---/*
- ' | ' / ' ' | ' / '
- ' |' / ' ' |' / '
- ' /*/----'---'----/*/ '
- ' / ' ' ' / ' '
- ' / '| ' ' / '| '
- */----'----'----*/ ' | '
- | ' | ' | ' | '
- | ' |' | ' |'
- | ' /*-------|--'---/*
- | ' / | ' /
- |' / |' /
- */--------------*/
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