Hi!

The attached is an entry for the Sinclair QL for the Crap Games Competition 2021.

Minimal Caves is (I do admit freely) a blatant rip-off (you could also benevolantly call it a "port") of a game that was once submitted by Einar Saukas as an entry to the Basic 10-liner competition for the Sinclair ZX81 - I was able to improve its original non-readability significantly by compressing it into no program at all (actually a one-liner without a line number), and now it shines as an example how unstructured structured SuperBASIC actually can be.

Simply load the attached text file into any QL emulator (I have tested with Q-Emulator and Minerva on a Mac and with QPC2/SMSQ/E).

Due to the limited size of the program, the number of rooms is limited (4), and the parser will only understand INVENTORY, GET, OPEN, LOOK, KILL and the compass directions, but it is in fact a full adventure, incorporating 3 usable objects.I was thinking about a bloated background story, but then decided on "go in, kill the dragon, win".

If you want to break the sophisticated copy and break protection of the program, you should open it with an editor and give the single line a line number - the program should then LOAD and LIST normally.

Cheers,
Tobias
