Text Adventure author working on Cyberganked: a CRPG / text adventure.
Previously made the text adventures Cryptozookeeper, Necrotic Drift, Fallacy of Dawn, and co-created Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos.
I also post about retro computers and collect 1980s arcade machines.
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Game 23: Forbidden Forest (Paul Norman, 1983)
I think this has the best music of any game, certainly of its era, and I did a little comparison between the Commodore 64 version and the Atari 8-bit version. If someone knows of a better game that was released on cassette, let me know.
https://www.joltcountry.com/index.php/features/forbidden-forest-paul-norman-1983
Topic Lords #299: Skin Fortress With Armed Idiot, ft. Jenni and Robb. We discuss multiple people responding with the same mystifying emoji, role-playing with a four year old about stealing Toxic Waste candy and lying to the cops about it, choosing to not rent a Playstation, Hints by Atari Games, and getting an Osia 2 bone-anchored hearing aid.
Lords: Jenni and Robb. We discuss multiple people responding with the same mystifying emoji, role-playing with a four year old about stealing Toxic Waste candy and lying to the cops about it, choosing to not rent a Playstation, Hints by Atari Games, and getting an Osia 2 bone-anchored hearing aid.
I bought a card for my Apple //e that allows the Apple to send video to an HDMI monitor. It's called the A2DVI, and I got it here:
https://jcm-1.com/product/a2dvi-apple-ii-digital-video-adapter/
It does exactly what it says. I had Choplifter! on an OLED screen within minutes, although I suspect there has to be a way to get it into 4:3 mode that I haven't found yet.
Get ready for the best video the Apple ][ has ever seen. The A2DVI produces a digital video stream from your Apple II's memory. The signal is output via an HDMI-compatible connector, giving your Apple II the option of output to modern displays. No more analog signal conversion required.
If you remember eXoDOS, one of the greatest ways to play DOS games, then welcome to eXoIF - a similar collection of 876 interactive fiction games throughout history!
Video from eXo describing the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AncVf2d34fY
Wanted to promote this curated #Amiga project - Rincewind's Magic Luggage Full of Amiga Goodies. From the docs:
"Every single game has been painstakingly set up for an optimal and authentic experience. The primary goal is to run unaltered originals on the systems they were developed for, which is a stock or expanded Amiga 500 for most titles."
Start here for the info: https://rml-amiga.johnnovak.net/manual/introduction/
Game 22: APB (Atari, 1987).
I have what is called a "Lynx II". I've never seen the original Lynx, but it sure looks like the A and B buttons got worse.
APB is an outstanding arcade game, probably one of the best examples of the medium. The Lynx home port is trying very hard to keep up.
https://www.joltcountry.com/index.php/features/a-p-b-atari-1987
And sure enough, when I went to restore, there were four characters in a party that had names I did not give them. So frustrating because otherwise everything seems awesome about this game.
EDIT: A little research indicates that it just has a crazy way of handling parties. You have to start the game with a command line argument.
https://www.gog.com/forum/the_dark_heart_of_uukrul/cannot_save
Wanted to promote this curated #Amiga project - Rincewind's Magic Luggage Full of Amiga Goodies. From the docs:
"Every single game has been painstakingly set up for an optimal and authentic experience. The primary goal is to run unaltered originals on the systems they were developed for, which is a stock or expanded Amiga 500 for most titles."
Start here for the info: https://rml-amiga.johnnovak.net/manual/introduction/
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looks like this is windows only, i'll see how thus performes with wine/proton.
Never had an Amiga, even though i'm german. All my friends did, but i took a little detour starting with the c64, going up through nes and snes before returning to PCs with a 386/33 my dad found somewhere...
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