Lately I have been researching old text adventure games. I played text adventures a lot back in the eighties and I always thought it would be cool to actually develop a text adventure. The main reason I have been thinking about it again is because I am trying to learn the programming language REXX and I need a program to write. Back when I had an Amiga I always wanted to learn AREXX, but just never did. AREXX is the Amiga version of REXX.

I don't know C programming and I don't have the time to learn it, so I need a language available in AROS I can learn quickly. Regina REXX has been ported to AROS and with AREXX being very popular on the Amiga in the past, this seemed like a good choice. Although Olivier Adam has been talking about the E language and that sounds very interesting, but at this time it is not available in AROS.

So anyway, I remember text adventures like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Zork and Jacaranda Jim. These were cool games and they were only text based games. I have the story in my head for a text adventure, I just need to get started. I'm not sure how much progress I will make because I think it will be a long process. I would like to be able to interact with Zune one of these days, but I will have to wait until someone creates Zune connectivity from REXX or maybe E, if it is ported. If that happens, I will probably drop the text stuff and start playing around with Zune.
Zune is an object-oriented GUI toolkit for AROS.

If any of you reading this have any suggestions on short programs I could write to help me learn REXX, please comment and let me know. Keep in mind, I will be doing all my programming in AROS.