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Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 7:17 am
by auraes
I ported the game Warlord, published by Argus Specialist Publications, to Inform 6 using the PunyInform Library. I fixed bugs, inconsistencies, and blocking situations.
The game code in Basic is simple, yet the adaptation proves complex, as is often the case with the Inform6 dedicated libraries!
https://gitlab.com/auraes/en_mode_texte ... type=heads
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:36 pm
by Garry
Nice.
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 6:30 am
by auraes
There is something amusing about the inventory. It seems to be limited to four items; if you try to take a fifth, it responds: ‘I can't carry that much!’ and does not take the item. If you insist and try again to take a fifth, it accepts it and displays: 'My back is hurting.' If you try to take a sixth, it says: ’You have broken my back.', and you die. So it is possible to carry five items, not four!
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 12:12 pm
by Garry
That's original...and amusing.
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:40 am
by auraes
It's not easy to implement with PunyInform. In any case, the solution I've implemented is quite cumbersome. I'll think about this issue again one of these days.
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 6:19 am
by auraes
Reading Dorothy Millard's walkthrough for Paul Price's Giant's Gold, it seems that this is the same game as Warlord.
In his walkthrough, Garry wonders why the game is called Warlord: probably an arbitrary title to hide the fact that it is simply plagiarism. I haven't compared the source codes.
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:30 am
by Strident
Good spot. Yep, looking at the listings, Warlord is a version of Giant's Gold.
https://archive.org/details/micro-adven ... /page/n41/
https://www.flaxcottage.com/GamesComputing/8405.pdf
No credit listed in Games Computing, so potentially Paul Price could still have been the one who also submitted it there.
Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2025 6:49 am
by auraes
I thought that publishing the source code listing was remunerated; if that is the case, he must have known the author's name.