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kenny46140
6 years ago
Aw, man... MAJOR "like". Big-time. Gotta track down some Linda Carter, Valerie Bertinelli, and more... wait. I somehow locked eyes with Susan. I think she got me in a trance. She's "vood-hexed" me, dude!
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Aw, Perfect! Now a "sanity loss". Hit with a "Siren's Song"! Now stuck looking at "preciouses". Not too shabby... hmmm. ;)
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Was a long-shot, but I tried. Called an old friend who I'd given a copy of my Indy game to long ago. It worked fine on his C-64 then as on my Vic-20. He doesn't have it but reminded me it had more sounds, music and animated graphics which I forgot about. Plus, he remembered another game I'd made called "Basket Case" after the film. I forgot about that one, too!
kenny46140
6 years ago
That "C64 Emulator" and "WINFROTZ Z-Machine Interpreter" are somewhere to download along with all the Adventure Games. Be careful before downloading, you know. This buried folder I found has the emulator, interpreter and several games yet played for posterity. Thanks for reminding me about this, man!
arkmsworld
6 years ago
Oh cool. Maybe you'll make a new adventure someday. :) I used to use WinVICE for the C64 emulator when I was playing around with learning Commodore BASIC a number of years back. I also looked at Inform 7 which is made specifically for text adventure games and to run on the Z-machine, I believe. What lang were you programming in at the time?
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Considering just simple html can make adventures (you've proven that!), that's about as far as I'd go with it. Even still, I'm more the player than the DM and wouldn't wanna steal your thunder by making one here. Too time consuming for me right now. Maybe next winter. (cont>>>)
kenny46140
6 years ago
No, no... language? Dude, those games I'd made were on the Vic-20 in '82-'83(?). It was the "10 goto 20" plus the sounds and animations were just jazzed-up from the Commodore Guide's basics. A lot of typing back then... lost interest in the Vic-20... umm, "Girls, Girls, Girls". Ya catch? Those distractions, ya know. Did keep playin' D&D, Trek, Marvel, Cthulu, Mech Wars, et al RPGs with 'the guys'. But babes, man. ;)
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kenny46140
6 years ago
I gotta check this out more later. I'm still diggin' that C-64 & Vic-20 'Advetnture Games' feel. Where are my old 'Choose Your Adventure' books? Oh, I know! BBL.
arkmsworld
6 years ago
Yep, I loved text adventure games. This was one of my favorites on our Atari 800XL -> http://gamingafter40.blogspot.com/2011/08/adventure-of-week-treasure-island.html
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Same-same! 'Cept Hitchhiker's Guide and Leather Goddess were on C64. Pirate's Cove(?) and Adventure(?) on the Vic20 which was my first comp. I made one back then and submitted it to them (via cassette). It wasn't too long, but had animations and I called it "Indiana Jones and the Riddle of the Sphinx". I think they sent me a gift certificate for that Memory Cartridge for Vic-20. You can download all those somewhere.
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arkmsworld
6 years ago
Oh cool. Did you save your Indy Jones game? Do you still code adventures? :) I started learning programming again back in 2012 specifically so I could write text adventure. Was going to relearn BASIC but decided on C++ instead. Still haven't sat down and made a good TA yet - too many other things to do.
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Same-same, man. That damned "too many things to do" never fails! Naw, my old C-64 & Vic-20's are long gone. I dunno if they ever published my "Indy" game. Never looked. It's lost to the ether as well. I've got a link "somewhere" to this page where you download ALL those games. Gotta run for now, dude... but I'll find it, cool? :)
kenny46140
6 years ago
Alright, they are/were called WinFrotzR53.zip and WinFrotz.exe OR CCS64.exe, BUT try to find a "safe download" one, yeah? Gotta get that 'other stuff done', ACK !!! ;)
kenny46140
6 years ago
Dammer... when ya think it's a bigger world than ya think, it's really always a smaller one, huh? That is really all good.
Don't stay away for too long, dearie, you might forget the way back. http://buzzymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/rumpelstiltskin-once-upon-a-time.jpg
I think that's my old '76 Chrysler Newport parked in front of the cabin on your 2018 page. ;)
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Dude, that's "The Classic". Sam Raimi's trademark '73 Olds Delta 88. A close friend (later bro-in-law) owned a '76 Cordoba with the 440 or 400 4bbl. Did your Newport have the push-button AT or was that just the older ones?
kenny46140
6 years ago
Are you "sure" we don't know each other? Check this out: https://kenny46140.neocities.org/vehicles.html
arkmsworld
6 years ago
I think that must've been the older cars. I had an automatic trans but it was just set up on the steering column like most cars. It was a great road trip car - 5000 pounds of rolling couch with a 400 big block. Seeing your Impalas, my first was a 1968 Impala wagon kick me down from my parents when I was 16. That was THE party wagon for high school. lol
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arkmsworld
6 years ago
It seems like we're people who would've known each other, but you're out in the midwest and I grew up in Northern Virginia....although I DID live for a year in Bloomington, IND back in the early 90s.
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Yeah, man. Both of my Impalas were party-rides, babe-mobiles and me the wheelman (not designated if ya catch). Dude, we just must be bruthas from anutha mutha: I lived in Bloomington from '90-'95. '95 Bought that log home (not the Evil-Dead one) north of Bloomfield, west of BFE. Sold it and moved in '05. I miss it. Cool share, my man.
kenny46140
6 years ago
And here I am. Since the '05 divorce. Broke as a '73 Pontiac but not as sluggish! Ha! :)
kenny46140
6 years ago
Bloomington, Indiana... the "town" ya love to hate. I drove nearly every street/road there back then even all around Lake Monroe. That "town", man. Huh... my ex-wife and 2 sons live there.
kenny46140
6 years ago
Huh. Yeah, I'm sittin' here shakin' my head. I met alotta cool people there. Foreign and Domestic. Opened my eyes more. Huh. That damned town.
arkmsworld
6 years ago
I remember hanging out at Lake Monroe. There was also this creak that ran out of town(?) where I found a number of really nice geodes while ading through it. That was something totally fascinating and unexpected. (Was a big rock collector when I was young) Wish I still had them.
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arkmsworld
6 years ago
*creek, lol. There was also an excellent gaming store in the center of town. I can't remember the name of it, but it was up a slightly hilly street so it was mostly underground - a long window ran along the wall at street level. It had just boxes and boxes full of old D&D modules, gaming books, comics, etc. Loved the place.
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Man, I know that "crick" had a funny name. I'll remember. Yup, alotta geodes and etc all over... and too much "leaverite". That's a concretion of stuff that you should "leave right there" because it's worthless! Ha! The old glacier pretty much stopped there at Bloomington.
kenny46140
6 years ago
Yup, I did alotta business at that comic shop; Buy, Sell & Trade. It was (and still may be) on 6th Street east of Walnut. The dude in there was a big DC fan. I think I sold or traded him one of my R2-D2 cookie jars and a lot of my D&D (et al) stuff. I went to about every shop/store in that whole area. Did you work at any? Would we have met?
kenny46140
6 years ago
I think most of the creeks (and small towns around there) had funny names. A few in particular I used to joke about or make up songs while driving by their sign. I looked at the map and couldn't find it right away. I saw where that Comic etc. Shop was and it's not there, BUT it probably moved (like a lot of the older shops did back then). In that area were a Model Shop and Music Shop I'd hit, too. I'm a thinkin'! ;)
kenny46140
6 years ago
I remember; "Lick Creek" was one. "Knob Ditch" another. And "Gnaw Bone" a town just east of Nashville, Ind. The further south of Bloomington was where the Great Kentuckian Migration stopped. Bedford, Ind pronounced as "Beh-Ferd" along with towns named after native american words (which were cool). Thought you might be Mark B., but are you Mark S.? That'd be too much a coincidence, but eh... gotta ask.
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kenny46140
6 years ago
THAT's cool, too! Haha! You just seem like both those Marks for some reason; Jusy "very cool guys" who are always on the same page or way better! Cool, man. BBL! :)
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kenny46140
6 years ago
Thanks for the follow, dude. Always liked yer page(s). Have a Great weekend, yeah? :)
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Arkm the Arch-Mage ROCKS that world, man !!!
Aw. shucks. :)
Golly, garsh. :)