At All the Adventures, Zodiac Castle continues, with ornery secrets being hidden by an even more ornery parser.
Also, killing tiny dragons.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/22/zodiac-castle-as-in-the-fairy-tale/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #appleII #apple2 #apple
All the Adventures reaches what might be its last "traditional" adventure of 1982 with the North Star / Apple II game Zodiac Castle.
Includes a single-path labyrinth and an omnipresent dragon that can visit any dark room.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/21/zodiac-castle-1982/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #appleII #apple2 #apple
Vinnie gets a lost-game animation. (sound on)
Second Apple II Shufflepuck beta released: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/04/19/first-beta-release-of-shufflepuck-for-apple-ii/
It contains three fixes, a few animations improvements, and a Pause feature.
The first beta version of Shufflepuck Cafe for the Apple II is... published!
The Hand is in!!
And I have a full 1024 bytes left in the CODE segment.
Big commit, I had to move lots of init code to the ONCE segment, but this had to be done at some point, and I *think* I have everything I want in ??
This week-end is probably be beta-release week-end!
I was playing around in #apple2 #pascal in the Virtual2 emulator this morning, and since the emulator supports a virtual hard disk (for Apple IIc models), I experimented a bit and determined that the largest volume size that Pascal supports is 32767 512k blocks, or about 16MB.
I'm not really sure what you could realistically do with a 16MB disk, with a non-hierarchical filesystem that supports a maximum of 77 files. But it's an interesting data point.
I know that other UCSD Pascal systems support splitting a single hard drive into multiple filesystems, but I'm not sure at what level that is implemented.
Jason Dyer
Colin McMillen
Mark Bessey
Thomas Cherryhomes
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