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@amigalove what Z-Machine is this running on? I’ve been thinking of booting up some IF on my Amiga but I’m not sure if I should stick with the original interpreters or pull in something more modern

@amigalove oops, completely missed that this is a commodore 128D! the way the text looks makes a lot more sense now

@amigalove @SDF On the C128! Now I’m feeling nostalgic, too.

First game I broke down and bought the cheat guide for (remember those? With the magic marker and invisible ink?)

Stupid friggin babel fish …

@amigalove @SDF (but even to this day, 35+ years later, I’m 98% certain I could still reproduce the procedure from memory)

@cmdrmoto @amigalove @SDF I only remember knotting the sleeves of Arthur's dressing gown and putting the towel on the sink. And I remember two cleaning robots. One for the upper and one for the lower half of the room ...

Hard to believe that my friend's an my Infocom text adventure sessions are almost 40 years in the past.

@cmdrmoto @amigalove @SDF You still remember the full solution?! I'm impressed.

@necropola @amigalove @SDF I don’t normally have that “picture in my head” visualization with the written word. But I know that Vogon locker room with its fetid bits of alien underwear like the back of my hand.

(because I was a vocabulary-obsessed kid who didn’t know what ‘fetid’ meant when I first encountered it)

@cmdrmoto @amigalove @SDF I remember that I've spent multiple nights in front my Atari together with a friend to figure out, how to get that babelfish into Arthur's ear.

The only explanation I have for how the game was able to react (negatively) to so many ideas is that the game devs asked all their friends and family what they would try and added reactions accordingly.

@amigalove one of the computers I longed for. The C128D with its built in floppy :)

@amigalove
My amiga 1000 was the only PC I really loved working on. My favorite game was Blood Money because it was slow moving and the music sounded like Bauhaus.

Also loved marble madness

@gravelvoice I love the a1k, too, but the photo is of my C128Dcr =)

(they look very similar)