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

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

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.

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

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

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

Found it. Thanks again.

-Doug