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From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Don't get me started. + Adventureland
Message-ID: <1993Nov29.172419.2683@swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 17:24:19 GMT
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In article <librik.754342976@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> librik@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (David Librik) writes:
>iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>
>There is, supposedly, a free Scott Adams interpreter called ScottFree.
I know I wrote it as a hack. 
>Like most utilities available on UNIX, it's out there as source code.
>One day I decided to get it up and running.  So I FTP'ed it, typed "make",
>and it promptly gave me a pile of errors.  It apparently has something
It needs an ANSI C compiler and a reasonably Posix like O/S and real (ie
not BSD braindead curses). Since you are at berkeley I guess you are one
of the unfortunates with BSD 8-). 
>Better yet, if anyone has rewritten ScottFree to work on a PC, using the
>usual BIOS screen control (ScottFree uses a UNIX cursor control package
>called Curses, which is probably available for a PC if you are really
>desperate), compile it and release it with executable (for 8088) and source
>code (compilable by an ordinary C compiler no more sophisticated than
>Microsoft C 5.0) and you'll have a grateful world (me) applauding you.
If you do - drop me a copy as well. In theory it should be pretty easy.

Alan

iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk

