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Volhout
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Posted: 09:50am 17 Oct 2025
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Triggered by Tay's adventure, I found a book online with type-in text adventures.
But this book is in electronic format, and you can simply copy the text, and paste it in MMedit....

The book was written for the Atari 800. And Atari basic resembles MMBasic very much.
After making a few changes (Atari basic allows different variable types to have the same name such as M$ and M%) and adaptation for the speed (they create delays using FOR-NEXT loops) it runs.

Despite the old commands such as GOSUB, GOTO and multibranch GOTO. MMBasic still kept the old commands .. Even IF ... THEN 1000 without GOTO.


Atari_Chateau_Adventure.zip

Have fun..

Tested (not fully) on picomite and MMB4DOS.
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Martin H.

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Posted: 11:43am 17 Oct 2025
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Nice
405 aa$=ucase$(aa$)

to avoid the ">>> CAPITAL LETTERS, PLEASE" message
:-)
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Volhout
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Posted: 12:14pm 17 Oct 2025
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Hi Martin,

I knew, and left it since it represents the time this was written. And it is kind of special, since many 70's and early 80's systems did not even have lower case characters as the Atari had. Fixed 2 bugs.


Atari_Chateau_Adventure_BF.zip


Volhout
Edited 2025-10-17 23:15 by Volhout
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zeitfest
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Posted: 11:54am 20 Oct 2025
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The version I remember playing, had a slightly different intro,
ending with a line about a bird singing in the distance (?).
That would be f77 versions though.. complete with COMMONs..
not sure I want to go there  
 
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