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|  The Queen's Footsteps: Davide Bucci's Sophomore | | Posted by Luca on 2020-02-17 |
 Exactly after one year, the 15th of February, here comes the Davide Bucci's sophomore, the follow up of the adventures involving the Italian belle époque's heroine Emilia Vittorini, this time acting as an ancient times' Lara Croft among some riddles into egyptology!
The Queen's Footsteps has been developed with Adventure Writing System (AWS) coded by Aristide Torrelli by Davide Bucci, and this process line allowed the author to let it run the game on many other machines, some classic ones, some quite exotic: have a look in the official page, and you'll find the same story running on VIC20, C64, C128 and ZX Spectrum, but here come weird ones like Olivetti M20, MacIntosh 68K, Commander X16, CP/M and so on...
This time, Emilia Vittorini has reached Genoa in order to follow the transfer of the grave goods of Queen Nefertari coming from the archaeological work camp in Egypt, towards the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The date at which the game starts is August 27, 1904. Everything around make you think it won't be an easy task at all, for some reasons, and the steam era setting induces a halo of mystery about the story.
 The Queen's Footsteps contains a number of references to some historical figures and to some specific places of Turin and Genoa. The author has included them in the hope to add a certain depth to the game, but some deeper particulars may remain un-noticed by a non-Italian (or even non-Piedmontese) player, nonetheless he also took some licences from historical facts, just because they would fit the story and the game. Hence, Davide set a specific page on his site, in order to read about those notes while the story flows, to be loaded by inserting the same specific game password mainly used to load the current part of the game and avoid to redo all the past path.
The train is close to leave the station, and you're still in the hotel: it's time to move on it like a real action lady, Emilia... |
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| | 10th Anniversary of BASIC 10 Liner Contest | | Posted by Chronos on 2020-02-13 |
There is a competition running at https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/2020! (On the page please scroll down for English.) As you can judge by the title, the goal is to create a program in 10 BASIC lines. It can be a game, a tool, or an application.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 21, 2020, 6 p.m. CET |
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| | Happy Samurais With Weird Tigers | | Posted by Luca on 2020-02-05 |
 Sometimes, the oddity makes you enter the story from an unexpected backdoor. This was the case with Compopic, a C64 bitmap picture released by Parrot of Therapy to join the graphic competition at the Contest 1999 party held in Budapest. If something in the world exists, to merge up both C64 and memes, that would be for sure this picture! Between 2019 and 2020, someone thought that the time to glorify this epic release was ripe, so the Compopic Competition has been launched, returning unexpected pieces of art from the most varied styles.
Frenzy-Pic-Kurosawa is the entry drawn by Carrion for that compo, then, as usual, he wanted to reiterate once again his love for the 264 series, modifying it to optimize it in the limits and in the palette of the MFLI format for Plus/4, and the stunning result is Frenzy-Pic-Kurosawa+4, another unbeatable one from the Polish genius!
This time, all the work around this graphic gem in the crown, has been extensively described in the article that the author himself has published thru the brand new Polish C64 portal C64Portal.pl, enjoy the reading! |
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