A quick one over coffee this morning, the 10Lines Adventure by Marco Spedaletti. Obviously, not a complex game, but very clever to pack in a parser, rooms, and objects into 10 lines. Clever enough, in fact, to win first place and FRATZENGEBALLER’S SPECIAL AWARD at the BASIC10Liner competition in 2020! You can solve it in about 10 … Read more
Here we go then, part 1 of the impossible mission to play all the available Commodore 64 text adventure games. First up is the innocent sounding 1-2-3… a public-domain text adventure developed by Chris Mudd for the 2000 Interactive Fiction Competition, and sitting right on top of my GB64 list. It’s written with Inform v6.21 … Read more
This is something I have been meaning to do for years, and I have finally decided to dedicate some time to it. My first love of gaming, a love that never seems to dwindle, is text or text/graphics adventure games. Think Infocom, Level9 etc. for the type of games that really captured my imagination as … Read more
I’ve been writing a bit about the Amstrad NC100 over on mastodon lately, and talking about transferring files to and from macOS as well as experimenting with BBCBasic. This post, which admittedly is a little niche and may only appeal to a a handful of people, is about that process from start to finish. If … Read more