I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia. I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,…
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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 Second Post
In order to play Eamon you need at least one diskette from the Eamon Library. The Main Hall and Beginners Cave (EAMON001.DSK) is where everything starts, and hopefully ends. In order to create more adventures a second diskette, the Dungeon…
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 (Winter Warmup)
Retrochallenge 2015/01 starts today. To learn more about it use the Retrochallange link under Links & Disk Images. I’ve had a fascination with Eamon ever since I first found it, about twenty years ago. I like the whole concept of carrying…
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Text Adventures, Part II
A typical text adventure revolves around a pretty simple model: A. Display description (data base). B. Get and execute commands (parser). Repeat A and B until done. One thing I learned way back on the PDP 11/70 was text adventures…
Text Adventures, Part I
For years I have wanted to write a text adventure. Actually decades might be more accurate. The first time I played ADVENT on the PDP 11/70 at school had me hooked. Later we got DUNGEO (ZORK I, II, and III)…
More Eamon
The other day when I was looking for Bunny, I found two games that interested me, today, I went back and tried out #182, Farmer Brown’s Woods. One thing I meant to mention the BOOTD3.DSK was not the one needed…
Eamon and Power
I mentioned some Eamon games I found the other day while looking for a game from a magazine. Today I had a chance to play one of them, #181, The Eamon Sewer System. To say I played it, would be…
Bunny?
Every now and then I get a little nostalgic and go looking for old games. There was a game I found in a magazine, Nibble I believe, that I painstakingly typed into my Apple //c. My kids played it for…
IFComp Entry
Having a little less than two months to put together my entry for IFComp, I once again went looking for an Inform set up that would run on an Apple II. I still didn’t find anything. I was hoping to…
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Eamon, The Caves of Mondamen
Now that I finished the Beginners Cave to my satisfaction, I am returning to The Caves of Mondamen. It is a little more challenging, but much more readable than the Beginners Cave. The ability of the software to display lower…
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