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From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik)
Subject: Re: Scott Adams compiler?
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Organization: Icy Waters Underground, Inc.
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 06:37:23 GMT
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bnewell@delphi.com writes:

>We all know about the Scott Adams interpreters such as the excellent Scott
>Free.  But, has anyone seen a Scott Adams compiler?  It might be interesting

The Alternate Source produced a package called The Adventure System which
allowed one to write Scott Adams type games.  It was for the TRS-80.  (I
wrote an Adams adventure compiler myself -- with a rather baroque syntax,
since I was seventeen years old and writing in TRS-80 assembly language and
didn't know anything about the incredibly arcane art of parsing and compiler
design -- but it's not usable by anyone but me.  Most of my Scott Adams
type adventures were written in "adventure machine code.")

I don't think T.A.S. is in business anymore, but if anyone wants to
try to track them down, I can supply an address and phone number from
about ten years ago.

- David Librik
librik@cs.Berkeley.edu
