Today I’ve translated the game to english. I’ve assumed that the english version could take more space than the german, so I’ve cleared the rest of the spaces between commands in the whole listing and gained about 500 extra bytes. After testing now both versions again, I’ve found two more bugs I had to fix, and also added a counter in the game statistics, which counts every meaningful command the player types in. Guess it would be interesting at the end of the game to have this info too. Another option I’ve found in the original game is to toggle the keyboard beep sound with the F1 key; added that too.
All these changes are included again in the 0.2.0 version. For the english version I’m including only the localized strings. It turned up that this version is 240 bytes smaller than the german one.
Program size: 38456 bytes, on disk 36830 bytes or 145 blocks
Free BASIC memory: 455 bytes
Used BASIC commands: –