Hello and welcome to "The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog".


WPB was written with ADRIFT version 4, release 46. If you're using a Windows PC, just load up the ADRIFT Runner and you're away.


If not, you need to download SCARE from

http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/adrift/

If you're using a MAC: MacScare-GUI.zip

If you're using Linux: scare-1.3.3_linux.tgz

WPB will also run, to some degree, on jAsea, but as this produces numerous error messages and bugs, you're better off sticking with either the ADRIFT Runner or one of the versions of SCARE listed above.




A few notes on running WPB under SCARE:

To run ADRIFT games with SCARE on Linux give the name of or full path to the Adrift TAF file that you want to play. For example

   scare aparty.taf
   glkscare /tmp/the_pk_girl.taf

Glk SCARE implements an additional command, "glk".  Use this to set or request interpreter information.  Valid Glk commands are

   glk script             - Turn game transcript on or off
   glk inputlog           - Save typed commands to a file
   glk readlog            - Read input from a file (normally created using
                            'glk inputlog')
   glk abbreviations      - Turn standard IF abbreviations on or off
   glk version            - Show the version of Glk built into glkscare
   glk commands           - Turn off the special "glk" command; once off, it
                            cannot be turned back on again

Glk SCARE automatically expands the following abbreviations, common among many standard IF systems:

'c' -> "close" 'g' -> "again" 'i' -> "inventory"
'k' -> "attack" 'l' -> "look" 'p' -> "open"
'q' -> "quit" 'r' -> "drop" 't' -> "take"
'x' -> "examine" 'y' -> "yes" 'z' -> "wait"

You can turn off Glk abbreviation expansions with the command line option '-na', and Glk commands, such as "glk version", with '-nc'.  If built with Linux graphics support, '-ng' turns off graphics.