12/18/2023 0 Comments Forty thieves green felt![]() ![]() I turn moderation on and off and "word verification" on and off frequently depending on the volume of spam I'm receiving. ![]() If you want to use the commenting system to alert me to them, great, I appreciate it, but there's no reason to leave such comments preserved for posterity. I will delete any comments that simply point out typos. There is no such thing as "necro-posting" on this blog, and thus no need to use that term. As such, all comment threads on this blog are live and active unless I specifically turn them off. Reader comments on "old" games continue to supplement our understanding of them. ![]() I read all comments, no matter how old the entry. I will delete these on a case-by-case basis depending on my interpretation of what constitutes a "slur."īlogger has a way of "eating" comments, so I highly recommend that you copy your words to the clipboard before submitting, just in case. Comments on my blog are not a place for slurs against any race, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or mental or physical disability. Please at least mention "ROT13" in the comment so we don't get a lot of replies saying "what is that gibberish?"ĥ. I appreciate if you use ROT13 for explicit spoilers for the current game and upcoming games. If you don't want to log in to Google to comment, either a) choose the "Name/URL" option, pick a name for yourself, and just leave the URL blank, or b) sign your anonymous comment with a preferred user name in the text of the comment itself.Ĥ. It makes it impossible to tell who's who in a thread. I will delete comments containing profanity on a case-by-case basis.ģ. I don't want my blog flagged by too many filters. Please avoid profanity and vulgar language. (For instance, that GOG is selling the particular game I'm playing is relevant that Steam is having a sale this week on other games is not.) This also includes user names that link to advertising.Ģ. Do not link to any commercial entities, including Kickstarter campaigns, unless they're directly relevant to the material in the associated blog posting. I welcome all comments about the material in this blog, and I generally do not censor them. DEATH PRESENTS." during startup (0x0001C2). Death appears to have been content with simply replacing "LOADING ALI BABA." with "DR. Numerous other non-string differences can be found throughout the disk image, not just in the boot loader, so who knows what else he changed. " (at offset 0x009ADA), "ALI BABA HOME" into "PIRATES COVE " (0x013240), "THORA" into "BUCKY" (0x14801), and of course, "PRESS SPACE BAR TO CONTINUE" with "BROKEN BY: LONG-JOHN SILVER" (0x0051B0). Other liberties taken by Long-John Silver include changing "DEPARTS THE LAND OF THE LIVING." into "KICKS THE PROVERBIAL BUCKET. The string in question appears at byte offset 0x009A2A in both disk image files. Both editions can be found at the famous Asimov archive of Apple II software. It bothered me too, having just finished a playthrough of my own, so I tracked it down. Death", whereas the crude language you cited appears in the edition cracked by "Long-John Silver". It appears this way in the edition cracked by "Dr. There's no magic in the game.įor posterity: "OH MA, I THINK ITS MY TIME." is likely the original. I don't think I ever mastered the whole "tackling" mechanism. As I related, the system is relatively primitive, but it does have some interesting tactics, primarily in getting enemies to fight each other (you could theoretically win without killing anything). ![]() There are no experience rewards or leveling from combat. I only found one place in the game where I could raise a character's strength and dexterity, though I may have missed some. There isn't much of either-"development" is primarily a matter of better equipment-but there is some strategy associated with picking the right PC. 2 points for character creation and development.Still, there aren't really any other Middle-Eastern-themed games in this era (they're rare in any era), and the game gets credit for its approach to mythology. I'd like to give it more, given the uniqueness of the middle-eastern theme, but the game operates primarily in allusions rather than a fully-developed story. ![]()
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