In my ongoing adventures in porting Eamon Adventures I stumbled on some truely ugly BASIC code:

110 HD = FN A(8):AG = FN A(8):CH = FN A(8)
120 PRINT " HARDINESS--";HD: PRINT " AGILITY --";AG: PRINT " CHARISMA --";CH;"'": PRINT 

In unraveling the code for Eamon the first thing I looked at was the startup procedure which did character selection. There is a bunch of text to give a great flavor which I have so far skipped over, as it …

In my youth I had some spare money to spend and a public domain software catalog for the Apple II and so I bought a few software titles. Among those titles was the Eamon Adventures Master and a handful of …