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@Orion: odd, it works for me, see pic [deleted]. [edit] Ok, I checked the webserver log and discovered: [06/May/2022:15:07:34 +1000] "GET /sentrybbs/ HTTP/1.1" 404 196 "http://sleeping elephant.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Nokia 3.4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like...

Ok, I have completed the Secret of Bastow Manor adventure game and updated the disk image. See https://www.sentry.org/sentrybbs/ . I will confess that this time around I was unable to finish part 3 of the adventure but back in 2018 I did manage to get all the way through to the end of part 4 (I was ...

srowe wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 1:01 am If you're trying to move files between Unix and a disk image you might find my cbm-shell useful

Thanks, but I am running VICE's xvic natively on FreeBSD and loading/saving files from/to the disk image directly.

OK, I have found the problem. The files were originally named manor, manor1, manor2, manor3. When I transferred them to the BBS disk image as "sentry adv", "sentry adv2", "sentry adv3" well, yes, "sentry adv3" is actually "sentry adv4". Somewhat of a...

anyone else notice that both archives are missing adv4? I thought it was mentioned that the archive was updated to include it? Part 4 of the Secret of Bastow Manor is supposed to be in the final .d64 file. I certainly added it because I played the adventure to the end a few times to ensure there we...

2. If the program crashes while online will it reset itself? Also will the user still have control of the vic. Could be dangerous if a user could start typing in commands. In the years that I ran it, it never crashed. In fact I never experienced any crashes until I used a PC. That said, unless the ...

Yes, it ran at 300 baud over the user port on an unexpanded VIC-20 originally... I think an unexpanded VIC-20 should still be OK. It doesn't matter if more memory is added though as towards the end of its life it had a Commodore 8K memory expander cartridge to which I'd added the missing memory chip...

There is a new 23 May 2018 download of the Programs which includes:

- updated README_BBS.TXT
- "sentry adv" syntax error fixed
- "sentry adv3" modified to load part 4
- "sentry adv4" added to complete the adventure

That's all folks .... I hope.

As luck would have it, after making the disk image available I have now found a syntax error in the "sentry adv" program in the d64 disk image. Line 78 is missing a colon.

Thanks to Orion, I now have a tape image of the full VIC-20 Secret of Bastow Manor ... so that means I will have to convert part 4 for the BBS to complete the adventure

This is likely to take a little while, but I'll update y'all here when it's done.

Yes! Thanks for the pointer Orion. That is indeed the original VIC-20 version.

Now I just have to get part 4 converted for the BBS

UPDATE: The VIC-20 SENTRY BBS is now available

Yep, that was a quick 7-10 days ... always under-promise and over-deliver

See https://www.sentry.org/ for downloads and history.

ral-clan wrote:Text adventures for the VIC-20 are always appreciated. Maybe it would even be possible to track down the original author to see if it was ever finished?

I've emailed Darryl on May 18 to see if I can get the missing part 4 -- his current company is http://www.gameboxstudios.com.au

There's a video of an alleged VIC version here . Apparently, it's not from Softgold, but from Gameworx (?), and it has no graphics whatsoever. If it's our game, someone has already typed it in. Yep, that's the version I had on tape bought directly from Darryl the author trading as Gameworx Software...

So the copy in GB20 is possibly already the final BM Adventure in all its glory? Trevoz, basing on the listing you have, is it graphical (ASCII) or text-only? In the latter case, they really are two different adventures... It was text only up to the part where you die in the basement - sound of run...