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Eric S. Raymond 2019-02-28 04:59:44 -05:00
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@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ Bug fixes:
incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal
bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
* A few minor typos have been corrected: absence of capitalization on
"Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent selling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
"eying" for "eyeing". "thresholds" for "threshholds".
* Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
@ -128,7 +132,7 @@ The original code was greatly complicated by a kind of bit-packing
that was performed because the FORTRAN it was written in had no string
type. Text from the adventure.text file was compiled into sequences
of sixbit code points in a restricted character set, packed 5 to a
32-bit word (it seems clear from the code that words were originally
32-bit word (and it seems clear from the code that words were originally
*6* chars each packed into a PDP-10 36-bit word). A command noun or
verb was one of these words, and what would be string operations in a
more recent language were all done on sequences of these words.