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You're better off asking on the MEGA65 Discord about what to do to avoid this problem.

If the original game loader was built with Ozmoo, you can just:

1. Build your own disk image using Ozmoo Online, without a loader
2. Rename the file "story" on your disk image to whatever the bigger file on the official Ghosts disk is called
3. Copy the loader file (the first PRG file on the original Ghosts disk) to your disk image
4. Make sure the loader file is the first file in the directory of your disk image.

If you're on Windows, you can use DirMaster to do step 2,3,4.

PunyJam #4 community · Created a new topic Voting link

There is now a voting link on the jam page.

I'm thinking a lot can be done with subtle things, like you notice a man walking across the street wearing a suit and socks, but no shoes. Follow him to unveil a mystery. Did someone force him to go out without his shoes? Is he acting out of fear? And once you figure out what's wrong, how can you help?

Good fun! Gets pretty hard as the speed increases. Managed to get 33.

Now it's in place at https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/memorylane.z5

Looking good! Tip: Story data blocks are marked as free on C64 disk, so if player saves on the disk it can destroy the game.

PunyJam #3 community · Created a new topic Voting time!

Wohoo, we got nine submissions - absolutely awesome!

Now it's time for voting. Please read up on rules (under "Voting") and recommendations (under "Recommendations") for judges on the main jam page. You will find the voting link under "Voting".

The rules require contestants to provide the game in Z-code format. 

We are aware of the current problems with borogove.

If you just need a place to host your Z-code file for the judging period so you can point Parchment to it, drop me a mail (see organizer's mail address on jam page) and I can provide a solution.

+ Fun, great music, nice graphics!

- Incredibly stressful, and hard to control with joystick. This game would be a lot better with the option of keyboard steering, preferrable with 8 keys + fire. 

We now have seven prizes in the prize pool.

PunyJam #3 community · Created a new topic Jam is on!

The jam has now started. Wohoo!

The theme is:

The game must start in or at an airlock.

Garry Francis has donated a cash prize of 100 USD. Recipient must have PayPal.

PunyJam #3 community · Created a new topic Prizes

The organizers have donated two prizes: Gift certificates on Steam for €35 and €20 respectively.

Good question.

If you feel like you don't remember the basics, maybe go through the tutorials linked on the homepage.

If you look at your old code and there are just a lot of properties, attributes and whatnot that you're not sure what they do, look them up in the quickref document.

I wish there was a comprehensive manual that explains PunyInform from the ground up, without relying heavily on the Inform 6 documentation, but unfortunately we're not there yet.

PunyJam #2 community · Created a new topic We have a winner

The jam has ended, and all votes have been recorded. Final standings:

1. Morris by Dee Cooke, 4.417 points

2. A Once In a Lifetime Opportunity by Interpied, 3.373 points

3. Face Your Fears by Sijnstra, 3.300 points

The maximum score is 5. The submissions got 9-12 votes each.

Look out for post-jam versions of the games, with bug fixes and other improvements.

Many thanks to all participants and judges!

These games use an Infocom-type parser that tries to parse full english commands, e.g. "get all the books but the blue one", "look at the door", "put all in the box", "open the box then enter it". You can skip articles, but not prepositions.

You write a game.

PunyJam #2 community · Created a new topic The jam is on

The jam has now started. The theme is on the main jam page. Let the fun begin!

We now have another prize in the prize pool:

PunyInform v3.1 was just published. Read more at https://twitter.com/FRamsberg/status/1451881045209518081

Among other things, this release has a new document, a PunyInform Quick Reference. To learn more about this, see https://intfiction.org/t/punyinform-quick-reference/53154

Except for this the new release contains some advanced new features, along with lots of bugfixes and optimizations.

Thank you!

Updated the game to release 5.

Welcome participants and possible participants! It brings us great joy to see there's so much interest in this jam.

There's still a month to go before the jam starts. If you're planning on writing a game for the jam, and you're not currently an expert PunyInform developer, we recommend you start learning the language and library right away. It's a powerful system and the better you know it, the better your chances of making your game great. Also, it's fun!

We have just added a prize to the prize pool: A new, signed paperback copy of the book Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort.

There are two traditions to this - This game is really modelled after Infocom's games, which always used 'restore', while a lot of other text adventures used 'load'. I should perhaps add instructions on common commands to the game.

The command is "restore"

You can contact me here or at [firstname].[lastname]@gmail.com

Didn't see this until now.

When building for C128, D71 disk image is the default target, but D64 and D81 are fully supported as well. And regardless of this, the interpreter uses 100+ KB of RAM for game data, and it can use an REU if you have one. Also note that the game starts on the screen (40 col or 80 col) that is active when you type RUN.

Updated the game to release 4.

I need to mail you some stuff regarding the jam. Can't find your contact info. Please mail me at punyjam1 at microheaven dot com.

Hello,

I have information I'd like to send you, regarding your PunyJam game. Please contact me at punyjam1 at microheaven dot com.

PunyJam #1 community · Created a new topic Results

The results have now been included on the main jam page: https://itch.io/jam/punyjam1

Thanks!
I have now posted hints about this at https://intfiction.org/t/the-job-punyjam-1/50849/12 , where it's possible to blur spoiler text until the reader clicks on it.

Help us judge the games! 

Details at https://intfiction.org/t/voting-for-punyjam-1/50749

PunyJam #1 community · Created a new topic IFDB entries

If any of the jam entrants don't want their game featured on IFDB, please reply here or on Discord.

electrotrains, would you mind making your game page public now? That would be the simplest solution, as all other submitted games have now been made public.

Please note that your game has been compiled with DEBUG mode enabled (you can tell because it says it uses "PunyInform v2.4 D" where D is for DEBUG, This means player have access to debug commands, essentially allowing them to cheat to some extent. Compile the game without the -D switch to get a non-debug build.

That's fabulous Robin!

I can see the files at least. I'll make all games available to the public when voting starts.




PunyInform v2.4 is out! 

https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases 

If you want to stick with v2.3 for your jam entry, do so! If you want to upgrade to v2.4, make sure you read the release notes first. In particular, there's a section for things in the new release which may force you to make changes to your code as you upgrade, just to keep your game working the same.

I'll have a look and see if we can make the game template code clearer on this matter.

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I think you may have written this code in the wrong place in your source code. You have to place it somewhere after:

Include "puny.h";