The Retro Adventurers podcast

Oh wow, yeah.

Now I definitely want to share some pages from my Interplanetary Spy knockoffs, the book Insector and the unfinished Apple II game:

-Wade

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I stand by this assessment.

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Episode 16, a conversation with Jonathan Partington (Phoenix/Topologika titles including Avon, Fyleet, Sangraal, etc.) is now live.

He mentions that one of his current pastimes is giving tours of his local cathedral. Please someone concoct “Jonathan Partington Is Your Tour Guide!”, a devilish puzzle quest in the vein of Roberta Williams Eats a Sandwich.)

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(Dear podcast creators,)

I’ve listened to 4 episodes so far and it’s really good and enjoyable. Keep it up!

I noticed one of you was baffled by the lack of DELETE on the Apple II in the Sorceress episode (sorry, since I’m listening out of order I don’t have all the hosts down yet). I hope you cleared life up for your cohost that you can pretty much just use left arrow as DELETE, because when you press RETURN, everything at and after the cursor is deleted.

-Wade

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BBC Ben’s first encounter with Apple II quirks was pretty upsetting for him. We’ll see if/when he recovers.

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To be fair, the main quirk was just an incompatibility with his emulator. Chances are if he’d had backspace bound to ^H or whichever was appropriate, he’d have been fine.

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The classic crutch of the 8-bit era.

“Naw, man, it’s not hard, you just gotta know (which key you should never press, which key you can only press in combination with some other key, that the computer looks insane once you type a quotation mark, that sometimes you can only run a program with a cartridge in and sometimes you can never run a program with a cartridge in, that backspace isn’t backspace if the game was written before 1982, that–)”

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I mean, delete-vs-backspace was a really common terminal incompatibility when connecting to remote systems in the 80s and 90s. It’s kind of a similar problem when connecting to an emulated system on your own computer, but you’d have hoped they sorted that out.

Perhaps he can apply an LLM to this problem…

I remember when not just your computer, but every piece of software, came with a manual.

Now they come with online help that 404’s when you click the link.

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