Convert/Rewrite C64 text Adventure?

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Convert/Rewrite C64 text Adventure?

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Hi C64 text adventure gamers and authors,

To those old-school and retro text adventure program fans and/or authors who used 80's adventure utilities to play and write adventures on different platforms such as ZXSpectrum, BBC, Commodore64, Acorn Electron etc.

The "ThinBASIC Adventure Builder" (aka T.A.B.) is my retro text adventure creator for the PC.
It works on Windows 98/2000/ME/XP/Vista/7/8 and above.

http://tab.thinbasic.com/

TAB is a kind of Quill/PAW replicant or variant, works on similar principles, and runs on WINDOWS only.

TAB might be useful for adventure creators who may want to remake an existing non-PC PAW or Quill'ed game.

I know this can be done without much difficulty for most ZXSpectrum adventures by transferring or "converting" the existing adventure program database list (extracting the .z80 or .sna files with the unpaws211 utility)
The game can then be expanded, embellished or extended if desired. (eg: to add more text/puzzles ; to be more user friendly ) in TAB.
The resultant remake would work as a standalone Windows executable - thus avoiding the necessity of running the original game through a PC emulator...

Or, of course you can build a whole new game from scratch as well. :)

Here is a playlist I recently updated:


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Re: Convert/Rewrite C64 text Adventure?

Post by merman »

Interesting.

I was aware of the Z-code interpreter, which lets you port Infocom text adventures between supported formats.
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Hi,

A minor update to the program was released on 2 Feb 2016:
http://tab.thinbasic.com/

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This program is still alive!
The parser-based TAB for Windows retro text adventure program was updated on 21 Aug 2023

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http://tab.thinbasic.com/

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Good idea, thanks!
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