|  "The Witness" Extras | | Posted by Csabo on 2012-06-25 |
 The next Infocom game we're taking a closer look at is The Witness. The game is a murder mystery, and you play the role of a detective. C16 Chris sent us the scans for all the "feelies" inside the box: a matchbook, a telegram, newspapers, etc. We've also added all the scans for the 26-page manual. Check it out and enjoy! |
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| | Suspect And Other News | | Posted by Csabo on 2012-06-15 |
  C16Chris sent us the next installment of the Infocom stuff: Suspect extras are here! In the game, you play the role of a reporter, and you're invited to a costume party, where the hostess gets killed. Inside the box comes with a 26 page manual (which is actually "A Practical Guide To Murder Manners" :-)) and a TON of extras, all containing clues. Should be a fun read, even if you're not going to actually play the game.
In other news, we have this year's Botticelli Bilderdisk, #37 released today by Erich of Unlimited. It's a picture show using the Magica driver.
Finally a curiosity sent in by Bear(tm): he found a board game, released by Novotrade featuring Walaki. Check it out! |
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| | Cutthroat Extras and Adress C16 | | Posted by Csabo on 2012-06-07 |
  C16 Chris sent us the 3rd installment of his Infocom archive, this time it's Cutthroats. It's an adventure game (or "Interactive Fiction", if you prefer the fancier title) where you play the role of a diver, looking for sunken treasure among shipwrecks. The box contains two booklets and a few additional game materials, all of which can be found on the game's page.
The second addition to the database today is from recently-registered and first-time-contributing member Hans. He noticed our call to action on the Adress C16 page (looking for the other version of the cover), and since he happened to have it, he fired up his scanner and got to work. This release (a German database program) is in sharp contrast with the above mentioned game: instead of booklets and extras, everything you need to know is shoehorned onto a single page.
Thanks guys for these covers, they found a good home in our ever-growing archive of everything Plus/4. |
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| | TedPlay V1.0 | | Posted by Luca on 2012-06-04 |
 Here it comes, in the end! We were waiting for it! It's signed by Gaia, our prince in emulation, it also takes with it all the experience of TLC, and most of all it plays genuine TED based sound on your PC!
Let's turn seriously professional to announce this. Attila Grósz, in collaboration with Levente Hársfalvi, has finally released TedPlay V1.0, the first public version, stable and working. TedPlay emulates and reproduces the audio of a TED based machine. It can perform that by loading several types of files: the main format will be the brand new .C8M file format, but the player can also handle PSID/RSID format files with .TED extension, and .PRG files with executable inner player. TedPlay considers adjustable volume and playback speed, playlists managing, multiple tunes control, on/off turnable channels and player's reset. TedPlay requires SDL.dll in the .exe folder to run.
There's further work to spend on this first release, which aims to work with the new .C8M format but does not have a dedicated .C8M compiler/editor yet. At the moment, we suggest to download the current High Voltage TED Collection release, test the emulator with the .PRG files you will find in the /player folder, then report any bug to the authors: they're currently working on it to make it bigger and stronger! You will see, there's no change to play .PRG files with multiple tunes: don't care about that, when all those files will be converted in the new format this trouble will be gone forever.
Because of this, High Voltage TED Collection has just been updated to 263 single files, with some fixed and moved tunes, new hacks from games and several new entries in the /musicians folder (Koko, Alf, Tony Kelly, Shelmie, the one and only music on C16 signed by Martin Galway, finally a decisive blow on Csabo's releases and many many more!). The HVTC has been and will be paused for a little while, until the new format will take place as regular standard.
Say thanks to Gaia and TLC for their absolutely fantastic work, and please help'em to improve their marvellous creature named TedPlay! |
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