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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Amnesia
Amnesia turns out to be a text adventure published by Electronic Arts. One of the splash screens said it was written in something called King Edward Adventure Language. I had never heard of it, so I googled it. This is…
Adventure Creation Systems
Apple2Online has three different Adventure Creation Systems in just the A’s; Adventure Construction Set, Adventure Master and Adventure Writer. Just judging by size they have very different levels of complexity. I honestly did not do much more than boot them…
007 Goldfinger
I downloaded 007 Goldfinger from Apple2Online. Other than the title, I didn’t know anything about it. I booted it up in AppleWin and it is an Angelsoft Interactive Fiction from Mindscape. I lost pretty quickly. As I try again and…
Inform 7
I had some internet connectivity issues and while I was getting them straightened out, I started looking at Inform 7. It turns out, I didn’t need to hunt down a separate copy of Inform 6 to create my .Z5 game…
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Text Adventures, Part VII (Conclusion?)
After spending quite a while trying to find a Windows program that would let me transfer a file from my Windows PC to my Apple II using x or y modem, I had a thought. I moved the ADTPro cable from my…
Text Adventure, Part VI
My goal with my text adventure project is to be able to play the same game on several different systems. In particular, I wanted to run it on my PCs, my Macs and my Apple IIs. As a test, I…
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Text Adventure, Part V
At this point I have not found a compiler the will run on the Apple II line of computers. I do have Inform version 6.32 which will work on Windows 7 and have compiled a sample file. Over the next…
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