CompuServe Thread

To Pat @ OXXI: Did you speak to John Olsen about the directions problem that currently plagues the Visionary compiler? Again, the problem is that the GHOST command does not get the given N,S,E,W direction string from the SCREENMODE GRAPHICS level. That is, when given a direction the compiler and linker should produce internal code (it apparently does at the SCRENNMODE TEXT level) to: 1. Execute the code for the room at the given direction from CurrentRoom. 2. execute a TURN if this is given in the GHOST command. That is, execute the code for all objects in the room at the given direction from the CurrentRoom. 3. GO to the room that is at the given direction from the CurrentRoom. That is, the PLAYER is placed IN THE ROOM at the given direction from the CurrentRoom. John Olsen's game Cannibal does this. My compiler/linker does NOT do this. Currently, my linker causes the CODE for the CurrentRoom ONLY to be executed when Visionary gets a N,S,E,W,..etc. direction. John Olsen's 'Cannibal' game does NOT require the huge task of writing N,S,E,W…etc. directions as action or vocabulary CODE for EACH ROOM! i.e. I can GO to a room if for every room I write CODE to check to see what room I'm in. Then I write code to GO to the room for the given ACTION direction. When I get to that room I must now write 'GO' code for every direction from that room, etc. The linker is supposed to generate this code (which it does from the SCREENMODE TEXT level) but the GHOST command does not get the N,S,E,W…etc. direction to Visionary for processing in SCREENMODE GRAPHICS.