Adventure Without A Name, a text-based adventure game. Although limited in parsing, it offers a quick, simple quest to retrieve gold from a dragon for a prince, taking around 15 minutes to complete.
Adventure on the Planet of Zeeble
Going to sneak this one in and hope nobody notices. It should have come before Adventure Quest as it is (just about) a published game, albeit little known about. Ray Hoffmeister coded this game (an appropriately beery retro name!) in CBM BASIC and it’s the only one attributed to him on Gamebase 64, but it…
Adventure Quest by Level 9
Right, where was I? Oh yes, just finished up escaping from Cleopatra’s Pyramid, had a little break (19 months), got myself a brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate, had a nice cup of tea and thought it was about time to get back in the saddle. As it happens we’re on to one of the proper…
GoToSocial on a Raspberry Pi B+
I’ve recently gone through the installation and config of GoToSocial on a Raspberry Pi running in my office and thought I’d write a quick post to remind me of stuff and maybe others will find it useful too. First of all, after buying a Raspberry Pi OS image to the SD card, I followed the…
Does Every Family Have One?
My 4th Great Grandfather, John Britcliffe (or Britliff) is ours. On the 27th November 1842, John flew into a (drunken?) rage and ended up killing my 4th Great Grandmother, Sarah Rack and, presumably, her unborn child. The court papers describe how he beat her and it makes horrible and harrowing reading. He was convicted of…