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ahope1 / BeebScott

An interpreter for playing Scott Adams text adventure games on a BBC Micro computer
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Handle Howarth-style lightsources? #9

Open ahope1 opened 2 years ago

ahope1 commented 2 years ago

In Howarth's Mysterious Adventures games -- or at least in The Golden Baton -- the lightsource object (No. 9) needs to be "destroyed" by the terp when it runs out. "Otherwise you end up still holding the lit lamp while an empty lamp appears on the floor":

https://intfiction.org/t/mysterious-adventures-lamp-expiration-handling/54922/8

Would probably require a new build-time flag to conv.pl and a corresponding change to terp.bas.

ahope1 commented 2 years ago

The Golden Baton in BeebScott currently:

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