gitea-mirror/basic-computer-games
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games.git synced 2025-12-12 07:40:50 -08:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Added MiniScript version of 45_Hello.

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
JoeStrout
2023-08-17 16:05:43 -07:00
parent 4bff1aafb7
commit d46ddd68e8
3 changed files with 125 additions and 1 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

16
00_Alternate_Languages/45_Hello/MiniScript/README.md Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
Original source downloaded from [Vintage Basic](http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html).
Conversion to [MiniScript](https://miniscript.org).
Ways to play:
1. Command-Line MiniScript:
Download for your system from https://miniscript.org/cmdline/, install, and then run the program with a command such as:
miniscript gunner.ms
2. Mini Micro:
Download Mini Micro from https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/, launch, and then click the top disk slot and chose "Mount Folder..." Select the folder containing the MiniScript program and this README file. Then, at the Mini Micro command prompt, enter:
load "gunner"
run

108
00_Alternate_Languages/45_Hello/MiniScript/hello.ms Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
print " "*33 + "Hello"
print " "*15 + "Creative Computing Morristown, New Jersey"
print; print; print
print "Hello. My name is Creative Computer."
print
print
ns = input("What's your name? ")
print
print "Hi there, " + ns + ", are you enjoying yourself here?"
while true
bs = input.lower
print
if bs == "yes" then
print "I'm glad to hear that, " + ns + "."
print
break
else if bs == "no" then
print "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, " + ns + ". Maybe we can"
print "brighten up your visit a bit."
break
else
print "Please answer 'yes' or 'no'. Do you like it here?"
end if
end while
print
print "Say, " + ns + ", I can solve all kinds of problems except"
print "those dealing with Greece. What kind of problems do"
print "you have (answer sex, health, money, or job)?"
while true
cs = input
print
if cs != "sex" and cs != "health" and cs != "money" and cs != "job" then
print "Oh, " + ns + ", your answer of " + cs + " is Greek to me."
else if cs == "job" then
print "I can sympathize with you " + ns + ". I have to work"
print "very long hours for no pay -- and some of my bosses"
print "really beat on my keyboard. My advice to you, " + ns + ","
print "is to open a retail computer store. It's great fun."
else if cs == "money" then
print "Sorry, " + ns + ", I'm broke too. Why don't you sell"
print "encyclopeadias or marry someone rich or stop eating"
print "so you won't need so much money?"
else if cs == "health" then
print "My advice to you " + ns + " is:"
print " 1. Take two asprin"
print " 2. Drink plenty of fluids (orange juice, not beer!)"
print " 3. Go to bed (alone)"
else
print "Is your problem too much or too little?"
while true
ds = input.lower
print
if ds == "too much" then
print "You call that a problem?!! I should have such problems!"
print "If it bothers you, " + ns + ", take a cold shower."
break
else if ds == "too little" then
print "Why are you here in suffern, " + ns + "? You should be"
print "in Tokyo or New York or Amsterdam or someplace with some"
print "real action."
break
else
print "Don't get all shook, " + ns + ", just answer the question"
print "with 'too much' or 'too little'. Which is it?"
end if
end while
end if
print
print "Any more problems you want solved, " + ns + "?"
es = input.lower
print
if es == "yes" then
print "What kind (sex, money, health, job)?"
else if es == "no" then
print "That will be $5.00 for the advice, " + ns + "."
print "Please leave the money on the terminal."
print
wait 2
print
print
while true
gs = input("Did you leave the money? ").lower
print
if gs == "yes" then
print "Hey, " + ns + "??? You left no money at all!"
print "You are cheating me out of my hard-earned living."
print
print "What a rip off, " + ns + "!!!"
print
break
else if gs == "no" then
print "That's honest, " + ns + ", but how do you expect"
print "me to go on with my psychology studies if my patient"
print "don't pay their bills?"
break
else
print "Your answer of '" + gs + "' confuses me, " + ns + "."
print "Please respond with 'yes' or 'no'."
end if
end while
break
end if
end while
print
print "Take a walk, " + ns + "."
print
print

2
45_Hello/README.md
View File

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
This is a sample of one of the great number of conversational programs. In a sense, it is like a CAI program except that its responses are just good fun. Whenever a computer is exhibited at a convention or conference with people that have not used a computer before, the conversational programs seem to get the first activity.
In this particular program, the computer dispenses advice on various problems such as sex. health, money, or job.
In this particular program, the computer dispenses advice on various problems such as sex, health, money, or job.
David Ahl is the author of HELLO.