Using an ancient tool of the past, can have some issues. I have been looking at my older brother's books from the 80's on the topic of BASIC programing for a Text Adventure. And since the PDF's have been released to everyone I can link to the exact book itself.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTYkFJbUswOHFQclE/view
Understanding that I probably will not be able to get a majority of the code from the main program working, I have been more interesting in the explanations found in it. The way that things were encoded for low memory and other useful ideas for the planning out each step of the project. Since I have seen the DIM command used in example programs and I decided to try following the book a little with adjusting the grammar.
PAGE 19 has the following (with Smile Basic) adjustments
DIM O$[W] DATA "PAINTING,RING,MAGIC SPELLS,GOBLET" FOR I=1 TO W READ O$[I] NEXT IWith the code corrected to Smile Basic standards, when tested the program just says OK. I was thinking that the READ command might regurgitate the previous list of words and print the string. So I might be a little over my head because I can't tell if this worked or if I failed. My question is what command do I need to print the data included in the new 1D string, or am I just experimenting with ye oldde stuff that is not even compatible? The title of the project is "The Three Orders of the Spork" a Fantasy Text Adventure.