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I have made Calypso target either standard Inform or Puny Inform, and built against the current latest (1.3) of Puny, if you want to give this another go Steve just let me know.

Not sure if it's related to the previous error, but:

Apologies if I'm spamming you with bug reports on something which you know isn't fully tested, but on Ozmoo (but not frotz), doing "X FURNITURE" in the living quarters dies with FATAL ERROR: 10. This is "bad property length". This happens on the C64 version of Ozmoo too. It may ...

Haha you didn't waste any time finding one of the problems!

Originally this was "LookUnder" action but Puny doesn't have that so I (temporarily) changed this to "Smell" to get it building while I sort it out!

Many thanks Richard, the LDA one is certainly working for me now.

I was going to use EXMON which is great but having it online I can just paste into emacs is great

SteveF wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:30 pm Is it OK if I post an SSD with the game on here? Obviously just as a preview, because ozmoo isn't stable even if your game is.

Yep - sure, the entire source for Calypso is on GitHub anyway, so the more the merrier!

Wow fantastic work Steve, great progress! I attached a build further up, it's not quite "Punified" yet as there are a few things to tidy up, some things I need to fix, and I'm wondering whether to just leave the Puny stuff in a branch or "IfDef Puny" it, but hopefully it will loa...

Out of curiosity, have you tried running it with Jon Welch's Z-Code Interpreter?: I think it was V3 only wasn't it? It also seemed a very closed source project so that put me off a bit if I'm honest. That said, Fredrik has been very helpful and I've managed to get the file down to 48128 (still as v...

Down to 52736 bytes now! Been getting some help off Fredrik so I may have a crack at doing a Z3 version which should in theory get the game on our favourite 8 bit platform

Sorry if this has been reported before, but the disassembly doesn't seem to be working quite right...

eg on PaperBoy ( http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/explore.php?id=535 ), in the file PROG the first bytes are A9 0C which disassembles to TAY #&0C which clearly isn't right, not sure if there are others?

It should certainly work eventually, but the current state of the Acorn ozmoo port is that it has no virtual memory, so the game has to fit entirely in RAM. I suspect 60928 bytes is just a hair too large. If compiling for z3 makes it smaller that might make all the difference here. Edited to add: U...

Yep this looks great, I don't have very many discs at all (gave away all mine when I sold my BBC sadly), but I have one or two. I am a simple man with a simple drive but happy to help out!

And a "hello" (also from Sheffield) to you, Martin!

Thanks Fredrik,

I've chopped and changed a few bits (and had to remove a parsing bodge I did, which I'll have to redo somehow), but it does compile now. Generates a v5 file of 60928 bytes, is that too big for Steve's work to do the magic?

Having taken a quick read of the Puny manual, I'm now down to just the one error: Inform 6.34 (21st May 2020) line 1015: Error: Expected routine name but found GamePreRoutine So hopefully not too big a job to sort this one out, and Calypso may build with Puny!

fredrikr wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:13 pm Wow, you've come a long way with that port already!

Yep, great work Steve! I've been thinking of having a go at writing another adventure, and the thought of it being able to run on the ol' Beeb is a real tempter!

Well this is all very exciting :lol: Game code written in PunyInform is about 97-99% the same as code using the standard library. One of the details that differ is the name of the include-files. For the standard library, you include "parser", "verblib" and "grammar". Fo...

Hmm.. I get the same errors even with those switches, I'm using 6.34 too Perhaps I'll drop the chap an email. [edit] I briefly saw a list of pre-compiled versions before the post was deleted - interesting that those were compiled very recently, as opposed to mine. I've just pulled the latest and got...

Haha now then me old son

I had a quick go at this, couldn't get Calypso to build (2 header files missing, so I think it might be more work than a quick recompile) So I had a go at building their demo, and got a load of errors: Inform 6.34 (28th June 2018) "lib/globals.h", line 222: Error: Expected '->', '-->', 'st...

Looking good, I have the original cart somewhere!

lurkio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:34 pm Still, have you ever thought about porting Calypso to PunyInform..?! At the very least it might then be playable on Beeb emulators with drive noises turned off and the emulation speed cranked up!

Could certainly give that a go... Wonder how much work is involved?

This is great, I tried Inform 6.something a while back and thought it was a fantastic language for making this sort of thing!

Bravo

Loving the beer and poppadoms too, a good jalfrezi would've topped the night off I reckon!

This looks promising, although some of the lingo seems awfullly modern, as well as 'X' to examine, isn't that a fairly modern thing?

Anyway, I got stuck at the panel, I did INSERT DISC and lost the disc to an invisible media player

Will try again tomorrow

A recently discovered 80s title - attached here as per request.

Cheers,
Dave

Great work Rob I'm going to get cracking with this!

What's the easy way to get files out the .SSD images? I've normally only gone the other way

That's a confusing game - everything looks so similar even after an hour of playing my brain couldn't understand what objects did what and I never made it off level 1

Mind you I had drank a San Miguel

Looks really nice, top job that man! Yes I had a lot of memory issues and the game ended up being a lot smaller than I originally intended. Ho hum! This is crying out for a blog post / presentation about how you did it - some details on the NULA itself would be great as well because if I ever do ano...

That is indeed him! His lust for diamonds has led him down a dark path... Actually, drawing this picture gave me an idea - there will be a hidden Acorn tribute dungeon, where you will meet certain characters from various Acorn games over the years (probably minus our little green friend due to copy...