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From: "Oliver B. Warzecha" <obw@amarok.ping.de>
Subject: Re: z-code interpreter for the commodore 64 ?
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David Kinder <D.Kinder@btinter-remove-to-reply-net.com> wrote in
<9lk2e6$nsg$1@neptunium.btinternet.com>:
>> If there's any interest in this version I might dig it up from the now
>> accessible disks (3.5", the 5.25" ones are locked away as is the 64).
>
> If it could be made into a patch to apply to the .D64 files, that would
> be quite cool.

This would be a little hard to do... I'll see what I can do.

The "finished" product was a stand-alone program what loaded standard
game files into the REU. I don't remember if they had to have a special
name ("story.data") or if you could enter it.

Anyway, I searched through my 3.5"-disks here (I have a driver for this
filesystem on my Amiga :) and I only found some zipped (as in 1!foo,
2!foo,...) disk images which use the standard interpreter (and I think
I created those myself from the Amiga LTOI, "Wishbringer" never came out
with the first interpreter version AFAIK. So I have some rarities here
;). Interesting enough that the disks survived the last 10 years.
ohmygod, I am getting old...)

So the patched interpreter has to be on the 5.25" disks and I have no
drive ready for this format. To get the data off them I have to dust off
my 64 and the drives and set the system up. It may take some time until
I have enough time on my hands to settle sails on this course, but stay
tuned.
--
OBW
"Omega Metallicus is of course old Etruscan for "Let's Party"[...]
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conditions imaginable." Steve Hackett, liner notes from "Darktown"
