From: "Chad & Jennifer Hendrickson" <chadh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [stella] Adventure Project
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:28:01 -0500
Also, here is a link to a Powerpoint document from a lecture that Warren
Robinett gave at a college about writing Adventure. It also has a map of
the game world. There is some good info in here:
http://www.warrenrobinett.com/adventure/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad & Jennifer Hendrickson" <chadh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [stella] Adventure Project
> Here is a link to the Adventure source code:
>
> http://www.io.com/~nickb/atari/doc/adventur.txt
>
> Regards,
> Chad Hendrickson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stirling Newberry" <stnewberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:50 PM
> Subject: [stella] Adventure Project
>
>
> > Forgive me if this has been gone over before, I did some 6502
> > programming ages ago for modems and the Apple computer - gasp - when
> > I was in high school. As a spare time hobby I have started to work on
> > expanding the classic "Adventure" maze and would like to query on
> > what documentation is available so that I don't reinvent the wheel.
> >
> > 1. Does anyone have a bit map of the maze done? Does anyone have the
> > CRC documented so that the annoying black bar at the bottom can be
> > exorcized?
> >
> > 2. Does anyone know if there is a documented copy of the source code?
> >
> > 3. Has anyone previously worked on new mazes?
> >
> >
> > Currently, since this is strictly a spare time project, and there is
> > *no* assurance that anything will come of it I am working on the
> > following:
> >
> > 1. The base of the "straight shot" to the black castle now enters
> > down to the area right of the large area near the gold castle.
> >
> > 2. The area right is now not accessible from the gold castle. I'm
> > trying to figure out a sneaky parity way to make it so that the
> > easter egg is still accessible, even though the room is not.
> >
> > This means to get to the white castle from the gold castle one must
> > go through the blue maze. It also means that one can use the bridge
> > to go from the room below the gold castle, to the attic of the gold
> > castle, back up again appearing in the blue maze, and then down again
> > to the gold area and to the catacombs.
> >
> > 3. I've added a pit to the room below the white castle, one can go
> > freely to the attic. This creates another "trap door" effect, but not
> > as useful as the gold castle dodge listed above.
> >
> > 4. I've added the same pit to the black castle.
> >
> > 5. I've added two trap doors in the first black castle room, which
> > dump you into the black castle catacombs, but are one way.
> >
> > - - -
> >
> > My current plan:
> >
> > 1. Finish this first pass of the maze. Figure out the CRC so that it
> > looks as good as the original. Add more complications in the "empty"
> > rooms - specifically the rooms on the other side of the catacombs,
> > the room below the white castle, the room left of the gold castle.
> > Change the white castle's maze so that its trap door (at the bottom
> > of the inaccessible area) enters into another inaccessible area -
> > making it possible that one will need to use the "hidden bridge"
> > technique.
> >
> > Document what I've found out about making mazes so that other people
> > can do this as well.
> >
> > 2. Begin changing the rooms. Add another room that is behind the
> > other "dotable" wall (rooms to the right of the catacombs).
> >
> > 3. Alter the randomiser to but objects in more places, including in
> > the new easter egg room. Which will be a "wizards castle" - we have a
> > wizard, we should have his tower.
> >
> > 4. Gut the old level 1 and 2 games, and use the space for more stuff.
> >
> > 5. Add a new object or two. If I can add a few rooms in the wizard's
> > castle, then a new key is in order.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Stirling Newberry
> > stnewberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.mp3.com/ssn
> >
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