XPost: comp.sys.cbm   
   From: panks@sdf.lonestar.org   
      
   From June 29, 1996 comp.sys.cbm:   
      
   If anyone with a 128 is intereested, I'd be glad to send them a copy of a   
   text adventure (bug filled sort of) that i've already written (206 blocks   
   long in BASIC in 128 mode). It was an early effort of mine and I   
   abandoned it after too many errors showed up in the program (probably due   
   to my unstructured approach) ;) Where's Cleve Blakemore when you need his   
   structured programming skills? ;)   
      
   This next effort, I hope to get all the bugs fixed and have a running   
   text adventure that can be completed from start to finish. This could   
   take months, as the last effort alone (and bug filled) took almost 8.   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Paul Allen Panks   
      
   From Feb. 11, 1997:   
      
   I originally wrote a large text adventure in BASIC 7.0 on the Commodore   
   128 called "Westfront". It was very buggy, but had over 80 rooms and 80   
   nouns. I think I limited Verbs to about 30 or 31. Overall, with the data   
   and everything else, I had about 8,000 bytes of BASIC memory left after I   
   hit the 200 Block mark. I suspect if I had used the method above that I'm   
   now doing with "Westfront II" on the Commodore 64, I could have a huge   
   adventure with over 250 rooms.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Paul Panks   
   dunric@yahoo.com   
      
   In comp.sys.cbm Paul Allen Panks  wrote:   
   > 8 months worth of work, a good portion of my sanity, and the best darn   
   > game I ever wrote.   
      
   > On the plus side, I wrote several other games just like it.   
      
   > Sincerely,   
      
   > Paul   
      
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