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Download the latest Pitch Dark disk image at the archive.org home page if you just want to play text adventures on your Apple II. The rest of this page is for developers who want to work with the source code and assemble it themselves.

Building the code

Mac OS X

You will need

Then open a terminal window and type

$ cd pitch-dark/
$ make

If all goes well, the build/ subdirectory will contain a Pitch Dark.hdv image which can be mounted in emulators like OpenEmulator or Virtual II.

Windows

You will need

(Those tools will need to be added to your command-line PATH.)

Then open a CMD.EXE window and type

C:\> CD PITCH-DARK
C:\4cade> WINMAKE

If all goes well, the BUILD\ subdirectory will contain a Pitch Dark.hdv image which can be mounted in emulators like AppleWin.