Renga in Blue   Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project

There are quite a few typos in the in-game text; “ドウジョウ” instead of “ドウシヨウ”, “ドレ　ラ” instead of “ドレ　ヲ”. Looking at…

Given the way SPPY is stylized on the title screen, I suspect it’s intentionally named that. Conjecture: it’s a pun…

wrr my brain totally elided over that, must have spelled it wrong the first time and it propagated It does…

Ouch, you misspelled hiragana a whole bunch of times here. Hey, it’s better than being the guy who misspelled his…

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always has to happen to one of them even after I checked it thanks!

The link for “from the first issue of a & b computing” doesn’t work. Here’s the link: https://archive.org/details/AB_Computing_1983-0506_OCR

Gunther extracted them into a zip file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nByTEfW2AeUqpbTNTPaO9-7RyDCq9JvO/view?usp=sharing You can run it with Gargoyle – I had to drag and…

@Mark Hello! I have found your game and all the others Rob listed for TASMANIA. The fiiles can be found…

The answer to Gollum’s riddle is “NIGHT”, btw.

Update. The main site should now be visible irrespective of whether-or-not you have an account, or are logged in.

Hi guys! I’m the author of “The Time Machine” adventure that was part of the TASMANIA package. (It was also…

Some observations: You don’t need to type the whole word to get an object. For example, “get battery” can be…

The second link is wrong, for some reason “phpBB3” has been appended to it so it goes to the same…

just an addendum, on my “win” playthrough I never took the purse back to the centurian selling crystals because they…

[…] feels like it’s targeted more at outright theft (like happened with early CLOAD) rather than republishing, but maybe Lucas…

[…] (Continued from my previous post.) I finished the game (sort of) and then I finished it again (this time…

now that I’m awake and trying this, though, it didn’t work for me – getting the bare-bones portion with 404s…

Sorry this landed briefly in spam – it was visible last I saw, then the filter must have down a…

If you have an account you can still access CASA. First go to https://solutionarchive.com/phpBB3/ log in, stay logged in and…

They went down when the PHP security vulnerability issue happened and have not been up since. Guessing they had an…

Off topic, but any idea what it wrong with the CASA website? It’s been down for a week or so.

You don’t usual think that you could get this object because of what it is or because it is attached…

thanks!

“Haunted House” link doesn’t work. Here’s the link for it: https://bluerenga.blog/tag/haunted-house-lucas/

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I’ve been diving a bit in the source code. I have the exact steps to win the adventure: a%=5:goto 170…

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It’s reassuring, somehow, to know that there were stupid joke games in the early 80s, too.

@Rob, thank you for pointing it out ! I menage to build the adventure game starting from the .ADV file.…

Not sure what you’re asking, but note I said “preset” and not “playable” which are different. The second Eamon game…

In playable female pre-1983

It’s difficult for me to follow without playing, but apparently the sign of Ra is the jewelled scepter in the…

I guess I should try FOLLOW RA in that room. If this is solvable and we could just work out…

I dug into the “cryptogram” as well. That kind of message is in the game twice, and doesn’t seem to…

Oh, maybe I should learn to read eventually. One theory was that the withdrawal slip gets moved into it once…

yeah, I mention the ‘”scrap of paper” items’ in that section There’s probably a reasonable way with debug tools to…

I seem to recall the code for the post box is written on 3 different pieces of paper, which are…

It was one of the movies our parents showed us when me and my siblings were young kids and they…

Yeah, it’s possible there was a game added in there between versions – or maybe it’s just that one page…

Hmm, my best guess based on the sources so far is the PC-8801 book came out first in October 1983…

I’d say AKA is most appropriate here the REM statement also has the ユウ For my purposes, I’m better off…

Correction submitted to Moby, but maybe it can be included as an AKA rather than to replace the existing name…

Maybe the book’s entry in the NDL database (English language version, you can switch to Japanese at the bottom) and…

Huh, I wonder what the story is with that author’s name. Mobygames takes its reading from the FM-7 in-game credits…

The Back to the Future adventure game suffers from similar problems, it’s incredibly rigid to the plot structure of the…

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just finished honestly the hardest part was where I left off! (I was trying to do things with the baboon…

The other thing that confuses me is the index (which I was referring to) leaves the game out. Maybe there’s…

Seems to be a general issue independent of user, browser etc., see this Google Groups help thread.

There is an Internet Archive capture of that particular thread too (doesn’t help with searching, though!) https://web.archive.org/web/20250417021735/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.int-fiction/c/JMh6_bh7OrE/m/7_vQS-nL2C4J

Sorry, I don’t read Japanese myself, this was deepl’s translation. Maybe someone knowing the language might be able to confirm.

@Vauban: I have the same problem: “429 Too Many Requests” is all I get nowadays when trying to check Usenet…

Nice that Oh!FM-7 has a page for it, screenshots help. I’m not getting Sneak-and-Steal for コソドロアドベンチャー necessarily? It’s just “Kosodoro”…

I come from a future where Google Groups is starting to decay (it returns 429 Too Many Requests, though probably…

Neat! Wasn’t aware of this function. I knew about archiving current pages, but somehow that wasn’t possible for me when…

oh! one of the advantages of tossing it on IA is you can click “about this page” and you can…

it’s a current web site, so you can just request the Internet Archive save it, which I did just now:…

BTW, your source link below the book’s picture does not work from everywhere. I’m currently in Spain and it leads…

Interesting – I knew the film, but didn’t know about the background, it being re-launched through success in Japan or…

I first saw this movie in World History class in middle school, good stuff. I played through this game a…

notes from the author Mary Winter on the Lemon64 forum, saved here for posterity https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28909 For those wondering whatever happened…

I mean, in a reasonable sense you still need a little more than that, even “dig somewhere within a half-meter…

Another way to indicate a precise digging spot without a shadow is to reference street/road signs, mileage signs, or interstate…

And “The Misty Mountains” is a Tolkien reference.

yes, after it did huge in Japan they took it back for a second try and it worked

Did the movie get another go round in the US? I definitely saw it in a theater.

yeah! forgot about that https://www.paulinebaynes.com/_gallery_images/9065143521.jpg

The street lamp in the forest is also from Narnia, isn’t it?

Indeed, who knows.Fun aside: One of Macsen’s other licences, Countdown, has been running continuously on British TV for even longer…

I wish I knew more about what happened on their downfall, but I think that would require talking to the…

I never played any of those Macsen games, but I remember them all, and all the programmes they were based…

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Hi Jason, I’ve fixed the hand in the first room. The updated version is now live on itch.io. Thanks for…

managed to finish! it was a physical clue but the way I needed to retrieve it was pretty odd (it…

alas no, it just wants that directed at the enemy in question

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I will! Thanks for the feedback. I’ve added a ? “help” Type ART to switch from Apple II to new…

I will! Thanks for the feedback. I’ve added a ? “help” Type ART to switch from Apple II to new…

You might want to do another art pass. Very first room the person who’s dead has 7 fingers on a…

Hi Jason, sorry about that! I couldn’t see any confirmation, so I thought it was a problem on my side…

Somehow you had a bunch of duplicate posts (I’m guessing you thought it was getting stuck but wasn’t) so this…

Hi Jason, I played Masquerade on an Apple II when I was young, but I never finished it. Its atmosphere…

ATTACK WAND?

I only got admin privileges a few years ago. Up until then one of the previous group of admins handled…

https://archive.org/download/mame251 get mbee.zip for the bios roms to be able to run the machine on MAME https://archive.org/download/mame-sl/mame-sl/ You can find…

eek, he posted but didn’t write them! I thought you posted all of yours? Anyway, fixed that, sorry about that…

INFORMATION just repeats the start screens (including verbs)

That mini-map makes me wonder if this is ancestor of those sorts of adventure games you’d see in shareware CDs…

Regarding the references to Will, I think you’ll find that someone else was the one who covered this one over…

Where can I download the game?

yeah, it’s on my list, it’s one of two Star Trek games I’ll eventually have coming for 1983 the other…

I regret to inform you there is a sequel to this game i found while poking around the CoCo archive…

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oooooh ok that’s why it seemed arbitrary I guess you could kill all the NPCs and do it that way,…