Renga in Blue   Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project

That’s also certainly possible, although for various reasons I find my interpretation of the code/release date issue to be more…

Ah, ok. Since you specifically mentioned the VICE snapshot issue I assumed that all your instructions were meant for it.…

The disc label states “4040 format”, perhaps an earlier release didn’t work on a 4040 drive. My question is why…

Rob, are you addressing me? I couldn’t get any snapshot saved with “Save attached disks” selected to load, so I…

I’m curious as to why you’re doing everything manually when VICE is generally just drag and drop? I’ve been working…

If you want to see Death type: EXAMINE HOODED (you can complete the command with either RIDER or FIGURE but…

That’s certainly possible, but in those cases you’ll generally see a “v. 1.5” or something like that attached to the…

It’s also equally likely it got updated. It isn’t like they were mass printing these things.

I have new research/information related to some of the topics covered here that will be presented as part of an…

Well, my idea about the bird encounter is that maybe it’s the raison d’être for this whole section to begin…

I should also mention: This stuff is recognized by the parser, too. Try GET TOMMYGUN or READ GUIDE, for example.

Looking at my map, I forgot one other minor thing: Try PLUGH, and then Y2. Pretty funny. Then PLOVER.

To make a long story short:  This would be brutally difficult and require vast knowledge of the dark arts of…

Oh wow, never tried that! The problem now is, where’s a clue to the combination? Btw, the best parser response…

did you ever try READ FACEPLATE at the post office box?

I’ve been following the feeds for both posts and comments since, well, whenever I found the blog. It’s slightly annoying…

If so, it isn’t within my technical ability. Even using the specialized Eclipse operating system I’m just following the given…

Thanks! I made sure the template I picked eons ago had an RSS button in it but I have no…

Thank you for the series on this game! It was a fun and fascinating read and I’m now subscribed to…

DROP ROPE after you tie it to the stake, then go down. It’s confusing as you’re no longer carrying it,…

Is there a way to disassemble or peek at the source code for this one?

is there a way to climb the rope? it just auto-falls no matter how I try to parse it

To quote Scooby Doo, “Ruh roh!”. You missed another room exit and thus the whole larger map section and potentially…

Yeah, the XYZZY thing is the joke area, and can be seen as a callback to the infamous AOS CLI…

Thank you! Love your site as well! The next French game I have on my list is Apple II specific,…

Your site is a gold mine of information and a source of inspiration for my next Apple II ports. Thank…

extra note: my top candidate is the rope at the moment, since TIE ROPE TO X _does_ seem to kind…

btw I managed to get by the pirate fight (did some object rejiggering and used another save, and there was…

it’s got ASCII art, so I’m going to replay if for nothing else that haven’t checked how close to map…

“fortunately” it turns out KILL ME works for immediate death unfortunately you can get softlocked,, although I think the game…

rot13 on everything? I do know about XYZZY (will save for last post) if that’s the joke thing you mention

“I think I’m done with Riverworld (see image on the top), although I haven’t tried dying multiple times yet” The Suicide Express…

Okay, so according to my playthrough/map, you have two puzzles left to solve and two sections of the game left…

Awesome, this will prove to be important in more ways than one!

Hmm, it’s probably just the collection of all the Dream Park novels, now that I look at it. I could…

I don’t know what “Dream Park” you’ve got hold of — the only one I know is a single novel…

Marcel let me know that Commodore PET versions of Catacombs and Goblin Towers have been preserved: https://www.commodoregames.net/catacombs.asp

I’m going to have to go back and play out the ending again. I didn’t encounter Medea at the end.…

I’d been wondering if the rooms I hadn’t finished mapping yet had a shovel. Ack. (At least it is recognized…

Some notes: – My best theory of where the treasure goes is a vault on bottom floor of the bank,…

before anyone asks: I have tested the general store (including the case), the tower, and the hut as treasure-drop locations…

just letting everyone know I’m still alive – just the desert map is the kind you think you’re done and…

alas, the “hide the stolen item from god in a sack” technique does not work

Ah, okay. I don’t think I ever actually used it because I was usually just carrying around specific items to…

box canyon in the desert seems to mainly be for increasing inventory capacity I can bring it over when I…

“That would be one unobservant God but you never know” This reminds me that the nethack source has a quote…

I can’t even remember the sack, to be honest. Where on the map is it originally located?

Maybe by leaving an “offering” of another item? I’m not sure what would be appropriate though, and the “voice of…

btw did you already try putting it in the sack before leaving the church? That would be one unobservant God…

I didn’t know you could pick up the box. (See: message which makes it seem like scenery) Hence, I didn’t…

I’m not sure I’m following you here, so I’ll just spell it out: The box itself is a treasure (as…

ok, I think I see where the disjoint has been i You are currently carrying: a veneer box with a…

1 – Jung’f fbzrguvat n onegraqre zvtug fnl gb gjb qehaxf jub jnag gb fgneg n svtug jvgu rnpu bgure?…

can you give a hint? the only other thing that seems “obvious” to me is pray which isn’t recognized as…

Regarding the church:  There’s a puzzle to solve there, which I never managed to do. To see what it is,…

Maybe the CHEVY key is needed for the levee, assuming it is not dry.

you don’t even see the other monsters unless you survive the pirate attack (if you have the default power of…

Hmm, I’m kind of confused here, as heading north from the station and then west leads to the notch in…

so if you go to the tracks and go north, then west, you reach the niche regarding the sandwich, it…

I’ve never survived the attack always get attacked by a pirate, rat, and spider, and while I can kill 2…

It just struck me though: Do you mean the Pirate attack at the notch in the wall in the train…

Oh, cool! It looks like you’ve made a new discovery! I can’t recall anything about a niche, and never figured…

At least one bit I needed to pay attention to (eating the tuna boosts power from 0 to 100, and…

I think so, but I stopped paying attention to that rather quickly when playing, as it always seemed broken. I…

does this still have the exploration count bug?

Now can you TURN DOWEL? Or simply OPEN CYLINDER? Another note: the description of the hooks makes me think their…

Loaded everything up, and here are my findings: The characters error you’re getting (which is then followed by a device…

BOARD (no noun needed) is the command you want. You’ll likely encounter more parser fun once you’re in the boat,…

Now that you’ve done this, I can reveal that I never found any use for this odd contraption whatsoever.

experimented more with my save game woes, managed to get the save-in-blank to give me a totally different error message…

transcript just to give an idea: mount boat I don’t understand the word ‘mount’ embark boat I don’t understand the…

there’s definitely lots of mysteriousness going on. Here’s a transcript where I got it to work by going northeast, but…

PUT DOWEL IN CYLINDER Upon inserting the dowel into the square hole, you find it becomes stuck in the door.…

Parser. Went through entire list, no joy

Yeah, I got through that whole section. I can’t recall having an issue with the boat, though. Is it a…

Very strange. The second method worked for me 100% of the time, and I still have my old save files…

did you ever work out how to use the boat on Riverworld?

Nope, sorry. Still doesn’t work.

any excerpts from the game are direct cut and paste (there’s been a lot of typos) the wine/dime are correct…

“and she own first prize” should probably have “won” in the middle. Maybe also some confusion with “1979 dime” versus…

A few notes (no spoilers): – The fuse box/dumbwaiter puzzle is solvable. – I was never able to figure out…

Ok, try this:  Quit out of the game, then restart. Start a new game (don’t load a save file) and…

[…] (and the cave itself), one brief bit of business from the town that I had trouble mapping. Aula in…

this doesn’t work for me save Filename: start Error — filename must be less than 28 characters save Filename: Error…

My workaround was the following: When you get the characters error, try to save again, but this time enter nothing…

mucking around a little more, it appears that you can save up to the Major Mountain Ledge (right before the…

I’m finally getting around to wanting to save my game – it gives an error about needing the filename to…

I’m curioius for sure! I think from what I’ve read so far Quondum seems the hardest without being totally read…

Ferret definitely harder at first glance, but for the most part I can’t really tell until I know what the…

Would you say this is trickier than Ferret as of now?

The map is accurate (I checked all the connections while making it and had items dropped in the paths so…

This seems more stylized for clarity or aesthetics than being strictly accurate though, no? I definitely remember there being a…

thanks! map makes much more sense now

I just opened up my old Trizbort to check, and that section is a total mess of one-way connections, at…

“I still don’t know what’s with the weird swerve around the Restaurant, going southwest to end up on a road…

There is a funny Adventure parody buried in there as well, but there’s no guarantee that a modern player will…

All the different variants of Adventure did that quite literally sometimes with just modding the source code, 751 is the…

Oh, man… it’s so nostalgic to see one of these old text games wholesale ripping off an older one. Back…

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