Alternate Reality - The City

[macce2]

Does whdload install for this game exist ?

[tripp]

Would be interested as well to see a whdload install of this game.

Would also like to see this.

[rockape]

Hi,

see http://whdload.de/

and do a search.


Regards, Michael

aka rockape

[Minuous]

@rockape:

It is not there. Hence this thread.

A bit of a plea for this game's WHDload-ification...

I played the sequel to this game - Alternate Reality: The Dungeon - on my Commodore 64 all through junior high and high school. It really set the definition for computer RPGs for me and even the most modern RPGs I bother to play are weighed against The Dungeon.

This game - The City - exists on the Commodore 64, too, but it was a rushed and unfinished port. It's hard to really even make myself play it because I know it's supposed to be much better than it is. The C64 version doesn't even have intro music. By contrast, the Apple II and Atari 8-bit versions were considered completed, but they reserved one of the most important features for the 16-bit versions, the ability to join guilds. And the intro music on the Amiga sounds spectacular! The music composer did a great job on The Dungeon's music on the Commodore 64 so I am really interested in hearing the Amiga version music playing on my very own Amiga.

I don't mind the idea of playing on floppy, but I've heard that this game is one of those old-school picky games that simply won't run on anything but a stock A500 with 1MB of chip mem, whereas I have an A1200. If I have to, I'll resort to emulation. But it would be fantastic if there was any chance of a WHDload-friendly version.

[Minuous]

I agree, a WHDLoad version would be great.

By the way has anyone ever cracked the encryption on the saved games yet?

[majestyx]

I would definitely like to see a WHDLoad version of this. I originally played it and The Dungeon on an Apple //c in college back in the day.

Makes me wonder how it all would have panned out, gameplay-wise, had the remaining 5 planned Alternate Reality games ever saw the light of day. I see on Wikipedia the outline for the entire run, but so much can change when it comes to actual implementation. Certainly too many cases of this over the decades.

[macce2]

Maybe the Dungeon could even be ported to Amiga ?!

[Leander]

majestyx, you are (again! ) in luck because game you requested is a standard ADOS disk so, like Jetsons adventure game you requested before i've been able to create an HDF version of this game, too
Getting source ADF file form Gamebase Amiga 2, checking that second disk doesn't have any useful data (it's only for saving your own characters, i think there is no encryption on it) and made a standalone bootable HDF file with characters saving feature enabled and perfectly working! (you have to press F2 ingame to save your current custom character, and only can resume it only befor starting a new game).
Creating ADF version, too, but infortunately with no luck about characters saving feature (F2 doesn't work, no save function enabled), so i discarded it but hey, HDF is faster then better than ADF!
Anyway, just uploaded it in The Zone, ENJOY this release, too!

[majestyx]

Thanks once again, Leander! As you can see, I don't check in here anywhere near as often as I should.

[Leander]

Originally Posted by majestyx

Thanks once again, Leander! As you can see, I don't check in here anywhere near as often as I should.

NP for later check mate, and again, you're welcome!