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Author: Jon

Using vintage tech to write on the go. Primarily the Amstrad NC100 due to it's long battery, and the AlphaSmart Dana (with a few hacks) These machines are perfect for micro and flash fiction - when the muse comes a knocking they are distraction free, instantly-on writing tools.

123….A Text Adventure

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

Here we go then, part 1 of the impossible mission to play all the available Commodore 64 text adventure games. First up is the innocent sounding 1-2-3… a public-domain text adventure developed by Chris Mudd for the 2000 Interactive Fiction Competition, and sitting right on top of my GB64 list. It’s written with Inform v6.21…

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An Epic Adventure

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

This is something I have been meaning to do for years, and I have finally decided to dedicate some time to it. My first love of gaming, a love that never seems to dwindle, is text or text/graphics adventure games. Think Infocom, Level9 etc. for the type of games that really captured my imagination as…

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Writing, Transferring & Executing BBC Basic for the Amstrad NC100

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

I’ve been writing a bit about the Amstrad NC100 over on mastodon lately, and talking about transferring files to and from macOS as well as experimenting with BBCBasic. This post, which admittedly is a little niche and may only appeal to a a handful of people, is about that process from start to finish. If…

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The Blitz

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

I’ve been meaning to really seriously start learning assembly on real hardware for, well, since I was 15 really, but if I am honest I really struggle – not enough time to dedicate to it I think (that’s my excuse), and I always fall back to the CBM Basic I learned as a kid.  So…

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XC=BASIC – Strings Within Strings

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

Following on from the intro and scene setting of my previous post, this is the first in a series of XC=BASIC v3.0 features on various snippets of code and features for my Adventure Game template. The idea is to create a framework for the working engine of a text based adventure game, including most of…

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Jon's books

Men Without Women
liked it
Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami
Prophet Song
it was ok
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
This is the first Booker winner I couldn’t get on with. The writing style annoyed me. I found it a hard slog to get through which isn’t what I generally look for in a book. Anyway, not for me, and if we all liked the same books what a bo...
Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Three at the Angel
Three at the Angel
by Maurice Procter

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