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**Tom Servo #FuckTrump** @angelus_04@mastodon.social · 12h

**Tom Servo #FuckTrump** @angelus_04@mastodon.social · 12h

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**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · 1d *

Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Next on All the Adventures, I play the first three "Misadventures", naughty games by the "Softcore Software Co." via Bob Krotts of Dayton, Ohio.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/27/misadventures-1-2-and-3-1982/

#retrogaming #adventuregames #videogames

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**vga256** @vga256@dialup.cafe · 1d

vga256 @vga256@dialup.cafe

i do appreciate this caveat/note from the colonel's bequest 'about' dialog, which is normally reserved for developer credits. you can tell they're speaking to 90% of sierra fans who kept calling the 1-800# asking why their graham is broken

“The Colonel’s Bequest™ is different than the so-called “normal” adventure garme as it was designed around a story and characters rather than a series of puzzles. You may feel that there is a lack of & "quest.™ Llell, in & way, vyou’re right. There isn't a "quest.” as such. Your goal is to get to know the story and the characters: to understand what's going oms ahd to suruvive the long night. Lle teel that "The Colonel's Bequest” iz a true interactive STORY rather than a game and every ettort was put into giuini; you, the sensation that you are part of the story. "The Colonel’s Bequest” will give back what gyou put into it. If gou don't put much etfort into plading || it you rnay teel that there isn't ruch to the game. But gou I would be wrong! There is a lot to it--but vou rmay have to dig a | hit to find it--and to be very observant, "The Colonel’s Bequeszt” will reward thoze who are determined: who will notice subtleties: who will ask questions: who will probe. Good |luck! We truly hope you enjoy it!

#sierraGames #adventureGames #dosGaming

**vga256** @vga256@dialup.cafe · 1d *

vga256 @vga256@dialup.cafe

today i was looking for a method to crack The Colonel's Bequest, so i don't have to do the ridiculous fingerprint copy protection every time i load the game

i stumbled upon chris's amazing analysis of an (in)famous one-byte crack for the game, that first appeared on BBSes in 1989. the one-byte hexedit tricks the game into forcing the first fingerprint option to be the correct one every time.

unfortunately... it has a brutal side effect: using this particular skip instruction on the engine, it destroys the randomized generation that makes Colonel's Bequest very special compared to most other adventure games. just imagine how many people's playthroughs of the game were ruined by a bad crack.
just look at all the shit it broke:

"Dead bodies are always in the first place you look
Items only appear in the west secret passages
The elevator always starts out downstairs
You're always killed when opening the closet when the killer is active
You're always killed at the end of secret passages when the killer is active
The botched Red Barron easter egg never occurs
The Southern Belle easter egg always occurs
You never get carried off by a gator at the front gates
You always see the ghost in the cemetery
The killer always walks by windows when possible
The chandelier never stops shaking, explaining this false ScummVM bug report
Everyone blinks, fidgets, and moves with lifeless constancy"
(and hundreds of more events)

it's a fab read if you're into emergent gameplay, byte code and design

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked

www.benshoof.orgThe Colonel’s Bequest – Case Cracked

#adventureGames #dosgaming

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**Tom Servo #FuckTrump** @angelus_04@mastodon.social · 1d

**Tom Servo #FuckTrump** @angelus_04@mastodon.social · 1d

**Tom Servo #FuckTrump** @angelus_04@mastodon.social · 1d

**Liam @ GamingOnLinux** @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social · 2025-03-27T10:47:46.000Z

**Alex** @eARCwelder@mastodon.social · 2d

Alex @eARCwelder@mastodon.social

Pay $12.95 (in 1993 dollars) for “up to 30 hours of great, multi-player games. That’s less than 50¢ an hour!” This is from an ad for “the nation’s premier, on/line, multi-player game service,” The Sierra Network, in the Galactic Enquirer mock-tabloid that came with _Space Quest V: The Next Mutation_. #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #RetroGames #RetroGaming #Sierra #VideoGames #VideoGaming

Galactic Enquirer fake tabloid excerpt,
Showing a story about Oprah and Elvis Presley getting married on the early online gaming network The Sierra Network.

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