I am currently working to a text adventure game, called On the Queen's Footsteps, that will run on the VIC20 + 32K in a 40 column mode. If you have played to Two Days to the Race (http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... =10&t=9252), you already know your alter-ego, Emilia Vittorini:
Today it's August 27th, 1904. During the last 9 months, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back to Italy, in Genova: your steam ferry arrived three days ago with 25 wooden boxes containing Queen Nefertari Meryenmout's grave goods. They left Genova towards Turin in train, yesterday evening. While they were charged, you were invited to a sumptuous reception organised by a wealthy art lover, Eugenio Collovati count of Raligotto, but it would be hard to say that you appreciated the evening.
But the reception belongs to yesterday: now, you must take your train for Turin and check that everything finally arrived there. I will be your eyes and ears. Good luck.
I have more or less completed the first part of the game (I expect this to be a game in three parts) and I am searching for beta testers to help debugging it, hunting typos and grammar errors, etc... Here is a link to where one can download the file:
http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/varie/que ... IC_32K.d64
I have not finished preparing a VIC20 loader for it yet: running the game requires a few operations:
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lo=01:hi=32
poke 43,lo:poke 44,hi:poke 256*hi+lo-1,0:new
load "queens-vic",8,1
load "himem1.bin",8,1
sys8205
When the game will be finished, I'll announce the final version, but I would really appreciate having some feedback, as I am not a native English speaker and many sentences can surely be improved.
(mod: link repaired)