A Teaser For You Retro Fanatics .. Text Adventures Ftw!

[skeezix]

I've got Kronos running nicely (Magnetic Scrolls so far, with pics) on the Pandora dev unit. Looks really sharp I'm upsizing the fonts, try to make things more easily readable on such a dense display.

Shoudl get Infocom/ZMachine going soon.

I also got BattleJewels running _very_ nicely. A good day

Want pics to help keep away the blues?

jeff

 

[hobbyman II]

oh damn! I was just about to go to bed!!!, yes please (who needs sleep anyway?)

 

[LineOf7s]

Pics! Pics! Pics!

I don't care what the question is, the answer is MOAR PICS!

 

[lincruste]

Great news! I hope I'll finally be able to complete this one:

 

[Timstertoo]

Skeezix:

Some feelings from long long ago are stirred up here. Makes me feel old in a really good way

 

[skeezix]

Just did some cleanup .. can actually play Magnetic Scrolls nicely now; I don't have any 'cheats' in there yet, but wil be adding over time the automapper, note taking pad, word suggestions, maybe map d-pad to movement and various goodies like that. For now, just getting the games to work like they should

Lets see if I can have a few minutes to do a shakycam of a couple things .. (yay for video watching _text_ games

jeff

 

[skeezix]

Posted crappy video here

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/52240-moar-vids-mplayer-video-kronos-text-advent-battlejewels-action-puzzler-etc/

jeff

 

[peca]

@skeezix: Nice work! I remember some good text adventures from my MZ-800 a friend's ZX Spectrum. I those days I don't understood English, but some guys make good games in Czech or translate somes. So I have question: How difficult may be localization of Kronos and some adventures?

I don't know nothing about neither Kronos internals nor those interactive fictions file format structure. But in summer I may have some time to spend with such work (and learning stuff).