Revision history for Perl extension Games::ScottAdams.

0.04 Sat Nov 4 11:32:08 GMT 2006

• Add bin/sad, the Scott Adams decompiler.
• Fix an important bug: messages above #50 were compiled into slots one lower than they should have been, yielding very confusing gameplay. (I discovered this while playing a version of Adventureland decompiled with "sad" and then recompiled with "sac". Sample diagloue: KILL DRAGON / It doesn't seem to bother him at all. TIMBER!)
• Correct the sac URL in the Crystal of Chaos welcome message.
• Minor documentation improvements.

0.03 Thu Nov 2 00:30:45 GMT 2006

• Revised directory layout to match that produced by h2xs version 1.23 with flags:

  -X --name=Games::ScottAdams --compat-version=5.8.0 --omit-constant --skip-exporter --skip-ppport

• Fix occasional bug in %nalias: the first of the equivalent nouns to appear in the vocabulary list is now always the one that is used as the %getdrop, so that it is recognised by scottfree.
• Finish Games::ScottAdams::Manual
• Remove extraneous warning emitted when %AT places an object that already had a location.
• The compiler is not now so fussy about leading whitespace. In general, all indentation is now ignored except when it's part of a location description.
• Move the sac executable down into new bin directory.
• Use ".sao" (Scott Adams Object) instead of the uninformative ".dat" throughout as the suffix for compiled files.
• Tweaks in crystal.sac
• Fix crystal/Makefile to use installed components.

0.02 Mon Jun 7 12:49:50 2004

• First release.

0.01 Tue Apr 17 13:42:46 2001

• original version; created by h2xs 1.19

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### Still to do

• Update the web-page.
• Make the decompiler.
• Allow room/item descriptions on %whatever line.
• Naming and reusing of messages.
• Handle multi-line messages.
• Add meta-conditions such as "dark" that are implemented in terms of primitive flags.
• Mechanism for setting and testing flags by name. (flag 15 always indicates if light has run out.)
• Register current line-numbers with rooms, actions, etc. so that compile-phase errors can be reported better.
• Add discussion of %ident, %version, %wordlen, %maxload, %lighttime and %include, and flags, counters and location stores, to the tutorial.
• Test all the action conditions and results.
• Write decompiler; regression-test against compiler.
• Figure out the MakeMaker magic to have lib/Games/ScottAdams/Tuturial.pod automatically built.

It's possible to write perfectly good games (e.g. to clone Scott Adams's own Adventureland) without any of these refinements.