Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder Updated

[Paul Allen Panks]

Dear Interactive Fiction Fans,

A new version of "Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder" is available
for download for those interested. You may visit the Westfront PC
homepage at the following link:

http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html

There are currently two versions available for download: Version 18.00
for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP and Version 7.80 for MS-DOS 3.3 and
above.

Also, I am looking for programming experts who are interested in
porting this game to other platforms. For information on the Westfront
PC Translation Project, please visit:

http://www.geocities.com/dunric/wftrans.html

A version for TADS could be designed and ported to a myriad of
different platforms by an experienced TADS programmer.

Thank you for your time :)

Regards,

Paul Panks (a/k/a "Dunric")
Author of "Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder"
dun...@yahoo.com

[Paul Allen Panks]

I would also like to add that a variety of older versions are
available for download at the following URL:

http://members.tripod.com/~panks/westfront.html

For those interested, I have chronicled these versions for individuals
who wish to play Westfront PC on older computers, such as those
running Windows 95 and 3.x. The MS-DOS versions will also function on
computers running MS-DOS 3.3 and above. An IBM PC-AT compatible
computer with at least 4.77 mhz is recommended.

Main homepage: http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html

Regards,

Paul Panks
dun...@yahoo.com

pa...@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks) wrote in message news:<7a1fd8df.01092...@posting.google.com>...

[tim kilgore]

Has west front pc abeen ported to tads or winfrotz yet. Is there a
even a plan to do so?

ThanksOn 1 Oct 2001 08:51:41 -0700, pa...@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen

[Bob]

"tim kilgore" <ti...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:3be1d10d...@basic.bs.webusenet.com...

> Has west front pc abeen ported to tads or winfrotz yet. Is there a
> even a plan to do so?

Although the author would have to answer you directly, this raises the
general question of porting from (name a variety of ) BASIC to TADS or
Inform. I think that ought to be doable, although long, long stretches of
procedural tads/inform would look strange. (I omit discussion of graphical
BASICS....)

Such a thing would allow porting of the EAMON series....!

No, I am not volunteering.

Bob

[D. Jacob Wildstrom]

In article <9rt0nn$2...@dispatch.concentric.net>,

Bob <chun...@onebox.com> wrote:
>Although the author would have to answer you directly, this raises the
>general question of porting from (name a variety of ) BASIC to TADS or
>Inform. I think that ought to be doable, although long, long stretches of

Two words: Floating point. All varieties of BASIC I'm familiar with
have it. Implementing in Inform sucks intensely.

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[Matthew Russotto]

In article <3be23ca0$0$1925$b45e...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>,

D. Jacob Wildstrom <wil...@mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <9rt0nn$2...@dispatch.concentric.net>,
>Bob <chun...@onebox.com> wrote:
>>Although the author would have to answer you directly, this raises the
>>general question of porting from (name a variety of ) BASIC to TADS or
>>Inform. I think that ought to be doable, although long, long stretches of
>
>Two words: Floating point. All varieties of BASIC I'm familiar with
>have it.

Apple Integer Basic does not (hence the name).
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[Bob]

"D. Jacob Wildstrom" <wil...@mit.edu> wrote in message
news:3be23ca0$0$1925$b45e...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu...

> In article <9rt0nn$2...@dispatch.concentric.net>,
> Bob <chun...@onebox.com> wrote:
> >Although the author would have to answer you directly, this raises the
> >general question of porting from (name a variety of ) BASIC to TADS or
> >Inform. I think that ought to be doable, although long, long stretches
of
>
> Two words: Floating point. All varieties of BASIC I'm familiar with
> have it. Implementing in Inform sucks intensely.

I admit substantive defeat in the face of the dreaded floating-point. But
it could be done with a floating-point library, I would think, although we
are now talking about lots of work, little reward. (I actually embarked on
that quixotic quest in TADS a number of years ago and predictably did not
complete it.)

However, IF in BASIC doesn't always make use of floating point, so there
could be hope in some cases. Hope, but not much purpose.

Bob