[The New Media Reader CD, eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort, 2003]


Instructions for 

  BASIC

(Running the programs You! and Hunt the Wumpus in Chipmunk Basic)


To run Hunt the Wumpus on a Macintosh, drag "Wumpus.bas" onto 
"Basic_Mac." On a Windows computer, you can drag "Wumpus.bas" onto 
"Basic_PC.exe", but a similar method will not work for You!

Type in ALL CAPS when providing input to Hunt the Wumpus.

To view the You! texts as the program presents them on a Macintosh, 
drag "You.bas" onto "Basic_Mac." On a Windows computer, it is necessary 
to run "Basic_PC.exe" and, at the ">" prompt type the following:

>load "you.bas"
>run

Under Windows, the text is not all positioned properly because support
for graphics (and for specifying the position of text on the screen) is
not as complete in Chipmunk Basic for Windows.

When running You! from the CD, it is not possible to add your own texts,
since this requires writing to the You! files. Copy the "Basic" folder
onto your hard disk and run You! from there in order to add texts.

Both You! and Wumpus should also run in Chipmunk Basic for Linux,
available from the Chipmunk Basic home page
<http://www.rahul.net/rhn/cbas.page.html>. These programs have not been
tested on that interpreter, however. It is possible that these programs
will run unmodified on other Basic interpreters, but they have not been
tested on any others.

As the home page states, "Chipmunk Basic is copyrighted freeware."
Chipmunk Basic is (c) Copyright 1994, 2002 Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. The
complete binary distributions for Windows and Mac OS X are included as
.zip and .sit files, respectively, in the "etc" folder, along with the 
readme (containing license information) for both versions.

-NM