Re: looking for old game--alice in wonderland-- correction

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Labelas Enoreth writes ...
> 
> > > Cturley2 writes ...
> > > >
> > > > Hey, I'd love to see a rewrite of 'Alice in Wonderland' as an
> > > > Apple IIgs specific game with SHR
> > > > graphics (256 colors of course), stereo sound effects - maybe even
> > > > animation.
> Alice in wonderland, that was one of the games in that Windham classics
> series, like Below the Root and Swiss Family Robinson? Alice and Below
> were both side scrolling adventure games with limited interactivity, right
> (there was a menu of like, 8 actions, I think? and you just run and jump
> with the joystick?)

     Yes; as far as I know, this is the only Alice' available for Apple II.


> I never played Alice but I liked Below the root on my PC but never had an
> Apple or commodore at the time to try the others...of course, looking back
> at it now, the flat, primitive graphics look kind of silly, but still.
> 
> I can't seem to get the copy of Alice I found on the net to work,
> apparently it's a hacked version (was the original protected?) and so all
> I get is a screen full of garbage, then a game screen, but nothing is
> controllable.

     Problems like the ones you describe with the version in Asimov's regular
collection were mentioned several months ago. As Jake noted earlier, a version
which should work fine is on Asimov, too at ...

ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/incoming/AliceWNDLD.zip .



Rubywand