As a side-note to the Scott Adams interpreter and the struggle of writing in BASIC, it should be noted that Scott Adams's original work was in fact in BASIC. He published that source code in BYTE Magazine, should anyone wish to poke around and see what was required to get a game and parser working.
TV series, absolutely; I've actually never heard the radio program. It aired on PBS in my area along with Monty Python, The Young Ones, and other shows from "across the pond."
Oh wow, thank you for the clarification. I completely didn't even consider to audit for that in the ZIP source (though the ALL CAPS maybe should have been my hint). I'll update the post with this and another small thing another player found.
Great! Glad to hear we have a simple solution for this issue. It is interesting to note your trouble, because another player in this post is running Arch and says it worked flawlessly. I guess Mono gets in the way a little.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12/page/n193/...