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Peasant's Quest for the Apple II:
Taking a 2000s Flash Game Back to the 1980s
Peasant's Quest is a Flash-based adventure game designed by
the creators of the Homestar Runner website and released in 2004.
The game has a retro-feel, designed to look like Sierra adventure games
from the 1980s such as King's Quest. In this talk I'll describe
taking the game and de-making it to an actual system from the 1980s:
an Apple II with 64k of RAM. I'll describe the various challenges
I encountered along the way, mostly the Apple II's horrible high-res
graphics mode as well as trying to cram all of the content into 64k of
RAM while maintaining a low amount of floppy-disk swapping during gameplay.
Demakes
HGr-MIST
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Backgrounds
AGI-like? They abandoned it. Would save space
HGR Graphics
pink line on left of screen (picture)
Priority backgrounds, like AGI
+ load at $400, lo-res
+ Can't use screen holes tricky (original Apple II 4k of RAM
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Ram-map
keyboard: (picture)
no up/down arrows
Music
Mockingboard, pt3 player
no mockingboard, electric duet, but can't do more than