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    From Doug Hoffman@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 19 12:15:25 2023
    Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest adventure game, written in Forth,

    see: https://github.com/RickCarlino/Cosmic-Conquest-1982
    and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaLnr2oSqw&t=680s

    reminded me of the old StarFlight adventure game that was originally written in a custom Forth with a lot of code words. But I recall a lesser version of StarFlight that someone converted to standard Forth. Perhaps 10+ years ago.

    I remember running StarFlight (I believe it worked on Gforth, SF, VFX, and other Forths). After seeing Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest, I wanted to go back and take a look at StarFlight but I am unable to locate the source code.

    Does anyone know where the StarFlight source is and could you direct me to it? Thank you in advance.

    -Doug

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  • From minforth@arcor.de@21:1/5 to Doug Hoffman on Sun Feb 19 14:12:37 2023
    Doug Hoffman schrieb am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2023 um 21:15:27 UTC+1:
    Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest adventure game, written in Forth,

    see: https://github.com/RickCarlino/Cosmic-Conquest-1982
    and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaLnr2oSqw&t=680s

    reminded me of the old StarFlight adventure game that was originally written in a custom Forth with a lot of code words. But I recall a lesser version of StarFlight that someone converted to standard Forth. Perhaps 10+ years ago.

    I remember running StarFlight (I believe it worked on Gforth, SF, VFX, and other Forths). After seeing Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest, I wanted to go back and take a look at StarFlight but I am unable to locate the source code.

    Does anyone know where the StarFlight source is and could you direct me to it? Thank you in advance.

    Perhaps this helps:
    https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse

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  • From dxforth@21:1/5 to Doug Hoffman on Mon Feb 20 14:28:57 2023
    On 20/02/2023 7:15 am, Doug Hoffman wrote:
    Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest adventure game, written in Forth,

    see: https://github.com/RickCarlino/Cosmic-Conquest-1982
    and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaLnr2oSqw&t=680s

    reminded me of the old StarFlight adventure game that was originally written in a custom Forth with a lot of code words. But I recall a lesser version of StarFlight that someone converted to standard Forth. Perhaps 10+ years ago.

    I remember running StarFlight (I believe it worked on Gforth, SF, VFX, and other Forths). After seeing Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest, I wanted to go back and take a look at StarFlight but I am unable to locate the source code.

    Does anyone know where the StarFlight source is and could you direct me to it? Thank you in advance.

    AFAIK the only sources posted were by Tim Lee on a webpage that's long gone. The link below contains a copy.

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_B8dFmrUcFM9zyvOCN5lyMN3S5EMxNdf

    The forth used doesn't conform to any known system but poking around suggests it borrowed from figforth and other ideas of the day.

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  • From Doug Hoffman@21:1/5 to dxforth on Mon Feb 20 04:32:16 2023
    On Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 10:29:22 PM UTC-5, dxforth wrote:
    On 20/02/2023 7:15 am, Doug Hoffman wrote:
    Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest adventure game, written in Forth,

    see: https://github.com/RickCarlino/Cosmic-Conquest-1982
    and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaLnr2oSqw&t=680s

    reminded me of the old StarFlight adventure game that was originally written in a custom Forth with a lot of code words. But I recall a lesser version of StarFlight that someone converted to standard Forth. Perhaps 10+ years ago.

    I remember running StarFlight (I believe it worked on Gforth, SF, VFX, and other Forths). After seeing Rick Carlino's Cosmic Conquest, I wanted to go back and take a look at StarFlight but I am unable to locate the source code.

    Does anyone know where the StarFlight source is and could you direct me to it? Thank you in advance.
    AFAIK the only sources posted were by Tim Lee on a webpage that's long gone. The link below contains a copy.

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_B8dFmrUcFM9zyvOCN5lyMN3S5EMxNdf

    The forth used doesn't conform to any known system but poking around suggests it borrowed from figforth and other ideas of the day.

    Thanks for checking. The code I recall, and my ability to recall accurately could be failing me here,
    was all modern Forth and loaded pretty much directly into Gforth, SF, VFX, etc. and was not blocks files.
    What you then got was not the original Starflight game. But it was an interesting dumbed down
    program that ran in the terminal.

    -Doug

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  • From Doug Hoffman@21:1/5 to minf...@arcor.de on Mon Feb 20 04:25:26 2023
    On Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 5:12:39 PM UTC-5, minf...@arcor.de wrote:
    Perhaps this helps:
    https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse

    That is C code. I don't read C. What I remember was all modern high level Forth.

    But thanks for looking.

    -Doug

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  • From Doug Hoffman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 20 04:49:00 2023
    I had the name wrong. The name was Strek.4th

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/cRQhPsibtxI/m/8m7bX4S1MtAJ

    Apparently I had the file in 2006. I'll look again in my archives.

    -Doug

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  • From Doug Hoffman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 20 05:32:13 2023
    Found it. Thanks again.

    -Doug

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