Q: Crimson Crown (aka Transylvania II)

[Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net>]

I am attempting to play "Crimson Crown (aka  Transylvania II)" on Apple
IIe.

My main difficulty is getting Erik or Sabrina to perform certain
individual tasks, like: "Erik, take sword". Use of diacritical mark ( ,
/ - *) produces "?Extra Ignore" message understandably as parser was
possibly not designed to handle such characters. By simply typing "Erik
take sword" it replies "It is stuck fast.". Without the sword being
removed, I am unable to goto the next scene and I tried notorious other
word combinations including getting Sabrina to do it. Strangely, all the
other versions on different computers (Macintosh, PC, etc) of this game,
will happily accept those commands!

Does anyone know what the correct syntax would be?

Thanks!