programming/lads/ladsexe.txt

As the name may imply, this is a collection of EXE files for the LADS
thingy that I posted about long ago (programming/lads/lads.zip).
COMPILER.EXE is the compiled compiler (which compiles compiled
compilations), DRIVER.EXE is the compiled driver (back then, they didn't
have the word 'interpreter'), LADS.DOC is a thinly disguised ADVCOMP.DOC
(from lads.zip; it talks about how to program .adv files), DEMO.ADV is the
source to the semi-demo provided in lads.zip (I added a 'quit' command,
since you can't Control-Break out of the EXE driver), and SLAB.ADV is a
little demo I wrote that at least has the links right (unlike demo.adv... it
has a way to win the game as well). Enjoy.

As long as I'm speaking about LADS... if your adventure compiles fine, and
crashes in the driver with an error 9 (or "Auto Action number mismatch", or
"subscript error", or something) at the screen with the header message
(before you're asked to depress space bar), type it in again. No, don't
_write_ it from scratch again, just type it in in a different file. I have
no idea why, but it worked for me (like the 'cursed files' msdos C compilers
often have).

	-- Jesse McGrew, the ORIGINAL monolith.