Re: Game successfully run ...?-- Alternate Reality-City

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeremiah Swinson writes ...
> 
> Rubywand wrote:
> >
> > Jeremiah Swinson writes ...
> > >
> > > I am curious if anyone has had any success running the game
> > >"Alternate Reality"
> >
> >    -- Guess you mean Alternate Reality: The Dungeon --
> 
> DOH!  My apologies, but I actually meant AR: The City.  I wanted to
> start my character in the City and then eventually move on to the
> Dungeon.  I can't believe I neglected to add "The City" somewhere in
> my original post
 ....

     Guess I could have asked. Really, though, it was fun to get back into the
Dungeon. AR-Dungeon is one of the two major Apple II maze adventures I've
gotten pretty far into without finishing. (The other is Wizardry V.)


> 
> The game runs fine under emulation using Bernie ][ the Rescue except
> for one problem; it simply will not write any data out to the
> character disk image.  Of course, this means that I could play the
> AR:C for as long as I want to keep the computer powered on.  I kept
> the game running for about 50 hours and got a character up to ninth
> level before I decided to shut things down.
> 
> I'm going to try the disk image set on TikTok to see if the game
> behaves better, and while I'm at it I think I'll grab the Dungeon's
> disk images as well.
> 
 ....

     Tried out the version that was on TikTok. It acts kind of oddly at the
start-- like, sometimes, both drives are on.

     The version now on TikTok is a Digital Gang deprotect which seems to
behave better. The file is AlternateReality_TheCity_DG.zip in "Adventures" at
http://abandonwarering.com/tiktok/ .

     The set includes a 'blank' Character Disk. (All three disk images are .nib
files because AR-City uses volume number to identify its disks.)

     The game runs fine and does good saves under AppleWin. Maybe this version
will work better with your Mac emus.



Rubywand