Renga in Blue   Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project

“on” for “no” as well, and “decend”… just a lot of errors.

I can see leaving the B off the street or getting the Circus name wrong happening from print Lestrade’s name…

Nothing came from the East End (or West End) Locksmith Co., it looks like? Given the spelling in general, maybe…

My brain clearly was trying to autocorrect that.

Lestrade is called La Strade, not Le Strade, applying the eternal principle of Tea and No Tea.

[…] that might justify a full 30 pages in a LARP session. Exceptions have included The Hobbit, Robin Hood Adventure,…

[…] getting to our author today, I need to revisit one of the prior games from this blog, Max’s Adventure.…

If it gets discovered, I’d still like to play it But it’s not a rush (Note, between the lines, me…

“We don’t have any copies of Salvage” “I still would like to try Salvage sometime (the other Custom Software game)…

btw, if anyone wants to check the author’s next game (it will be quite a while before I get there)…

Be aware that The Temple is incomplete/broken. I sent it to Richard to see if he thinks anything can be…

The Stefan Modin stuff is on my list in not too long – it’s going to be after Genma Taisen,…

that’s a really good example! Lisa’s been on my to-play list for a while, it seems like the sort of…

[…] between the ages of 12 and 14, had his initial publisher contact (Mad Hatter Software) through the Boston Computer…

thanks!

Lisa: The Painful leaves the main character permanently disabled, depending on your choices, and this makes him much worse in…

And if you’re wondering how to get Swedish characters: Grab the Swedish chargen and kernal from here: https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/vic20/index.html xvic.exe -memory…

While writing the Swedish Virus comment here, I realized that I’d neglected to mention this, in case anyone’s interested: https://spillhistorie.no/2026/07/09/tidlig-norsk-spillhistorie-reddet/…

I just got news from Richard Smedley of the excellent Vic-20 Listings site that he’s uploaded Virus, a historically interesting…

When I saw the “You didn’t pull hard enough” message my first thought was PULL HARDER. I would bet that…

The El Explorador de RPG link for Super Quest links to The CRPG Addict’s. Here’s El’s link – https://exploradorrpg.wordpress.com/juegos/super-quest/

[…] lost gun (and fact it gets you just killed earlier) puts this as yet another data point in my…

[…] to get it out of the way first, we’ve got headhunters again, something I’ve written about before. Since this…

[…] I’ve finished the game; this is continued from my previous post. […]

Ack, that was supposed to be another in the thread just above this (although I can’t reply directly to the…

“With what? Your bear hands?” …sorry, I’ll show myself out.

I’m actually past this now (you have to LOOK TREE and you see a hornet nest, sigh; none of the…

interesting you bring this up since I just played Thissala on the Data General drive that same drive had a…

Around now I would be trying STRANGLE BEAR and being absolutely shocked if it worked.

So awesome! These are fantastic reads. I checked the “travel table” in the code. As you discovered, WEST always stays…

So awesome! These are fantastic reads. I checked the “travel table” in the code. As you discovered, WEST always stays…

oh wait, you can just CUT ROPE twice and it will let you (never had that happen before, oddly enough)…

It says something about how “I was never good at untying things”

A further thought/question: after cutting the canoe’s rope, does it (the rope) remain as a usable object? What if we…

“I don’t know what STAB BEAR means” THROW KNIFE / AT BEAR causes the bear to wake up and kill…

boar doesn’t wake the bear THROW APPLE / AT BEAR wakes the bear and it kills you (which is promising,…

Without looking at hints, ideas that come to mind are: (1) Might the bear wake up if a boar whizzes…

In case violence is the answer, could you try STAB BEAR? I would also wonder if nounless SHO could be…

I don’t know until I get there. I am assuming it is one of the two. (I guess SWITCH is…

SWIM and SWING can’t be distinct verbs with a three-letter parser, so which is the “real” one?

Good evening, I’ve only recently discovered this old game, and I find it absolutely fascinating. For clues #12, #13, and…

Colin, I’ve just noticed your comment. Thank you for your part in preserving these games. After struggling with a bugged…

Thanks for the heads-up! I remember that Andrew actually popped up both here and on GTW64 last year to mention…

https://www.commodoregames.net/Commodore64/Werewolf-16994.html It also looks like this site has a C64 version of werewolf you can play in your browser.

fyi there is a comment on this Youtube video from the original owner/player of these diskettes (Andrew Hornsby): https://youtube.com/watch?v=EphifnWSHPU Colin.

The 83 date and Crown Castle are from the website/zip file on Jones’s site I will just do a split…

I thought the shovel was needed to bury the body. “BURY BODY” worked because the parser only looked for the…

That’s strange. I just clicked on it and it works for me. Maybe it’s the browser you’re using? You could…

That link just takes me to a blank page.

Here you go: https://www.planetemu.net/rom/commodore-c64-games-adventure-t64/werewolf-1982-dunk-nigel-j-w These should probably be listed as 1982 games, though. Quoting myself from a February, 2025 comment…

The priest says *you* (the PC) aren’t a nice person, so he won’t let you pass. “I see you’re not…

“low memory capacity” – it doesn’t link to anything

Yeah, it’s more the “he’s drunk and says he’s a bad person while drunk, so let’s kill him” part of…

I think the priest is meant to be a drunk slurring his speech. Presumably he’ll drink anything, assuming it to…

[…] at the altar. The cross is made of gold, but the crucifix is made of silver, which is (using…

Thank you, it was absolutely fantastic to get to play this! It fills in some gaps in understanding how they…

I’d like to thank you personally for helping to preserve these games. Aside from the inherent historical value, having these…

Hi – I’m very glad to have been able to help a little bit in resurrecting the original. It makes…

I’ll spill the beans here a little:  Well over a year ago, I did a deep dive on early UK…

just an addendum from idle searching on Spider Software https://archive.org/details/PracticalComputing1982June06/page/n39/mode/2up this page includes Richard Bartle writing about MUD1, Sytris writing…

other comment got buried in the spam filter, sorry about that! Will definitely hang on to for when I get…

I’ve had a quick look, but done nothing more than map out the forest maze.

Some additions, I didn’t test it but I wonder if throwing the bottle also reduces your inventory limit. Also, if…

scrambled my references, d’oh did you try Goblin Towers, btw? It didn’t seem like it needed a full new post…

“I did find out from Alex that EXAMINE HOODED or EXAMINE HOODED FIGURE both work”, and so on. Yours truly…

[…] from my previous posts on Catacombs, and in particular my last post which described how the 1981 PET version…

Well, the 4040 had already been available since the previous year and Supersoft was one of the major PET-oriented companies…

I would think 3040 would most likely be the initial release and through special circumstances he made a 4040 version,…

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…

I have just written the walkthrough of La pierre de vie and I have uploaded it at https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/france/bigoo/ ;-)

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