The Daring Rescue of Pacuvia the Sheep

Devlog

• Happy birthday Pacuvia! / Buon compleanno, Pacuvia!
  December 15, 2023 by Diduz

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  ENGLISH One year ago I unleashed this little bioengineered ovine to the world! :-) Sharing my first videogame ever with everyone has been a precious joy . I had some goals when I started the project (... Continue reading
• How to get 1000 extra points! / Come ottenere 1000 punti extra!
  September 26, 2023 by Diduz

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  #bonus, #secret action

  ENGLISH If you're a coder with a lot of spare time (and I'm pretty sure this is an oxymoron), you should've already guessed how to get a special 1000 points bonus in Pacuvia . Theoretically, there's l... Continue reading
• Squeezing Pacuvia into Tandy Model 100 / Come ho spremuto Pacuvia nell'Olivetti M10
  July 02, 2023 by Diduz

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  #Tandy Model 100, #Olivetti M10, #basic

  ENGLISH I had postponed Pacuvia's Tandy Model 100 version , because I knew it could turn out a programming nightmare. I couldn't ditch that port though: the Italian version of Tandy Model 100, my dear... Continue reading

  
• Zzap review! / Recensione su Zzap!
  May 21, 2023 by Diduz

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  ENGLISH Some days ago I realized Pacuvia had been reviewed on the Italian edition of Zzap! (issue 8/93). They posted a list of all the reviews in the last issue... and an overjoyed version of myself s... Continue reading
• Bumps on the QB64 road / Cunette sulla strada del QB64
  April 08, 2023 by Diduz

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  #QB64, #interactive fiction, #porting, #windows, #qbasic

  ENGLISH I had always felt a Windows porting of Pacuvia was mandatory. That version was the least " sentimental " in my " sentimental resarch project ", because contemporary Windows OSs aren't exactly... Continue reading
• The MS-DOS scalability mayhem
  February 21, 2023 by Diduz

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  #Ms-dos, #CGA, #EGA, #VGA, #QuickBasic, #screen display

  Clicca qui per la versione italiana! ;-) When I approached Pacuvia's MS-DOS port I began my first draft of the code with Freebasic , but soon I decided to discard this option. DOS Freebasic works in a... Continue reading

  
• AMOS dislikes "thens" but I still love it / L'AMOS non va matto per i then, ma gli voglio bene lo stesso
  February 05, 2023 by Diduz

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  #AMOS, #Amiga

  ENGLISH Coding Pacuvia's Amiga version with AMOS Pro 2.0 has been a nice journey, but I stumbled in a couple of strange things that bugged me at first. 1) There are major differences in the way AMOS h... Continue reading
• The C64 status bar challenge
  January 18, 2023 by Diduz

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  #Commodore 64, #Commodore kernal, #Status bar

  Clicca qui per la versione italiana. ;-) When I chose to make an interactive fiction game, I knew I wanted a nice status bar at the top of the screen. Easy peasy? Nah. I needed a " logical window ", i... Continue reading

  
• Walkthrough! / Soluzione!
  January 08, 2023 by Diduz

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  #Walkthrough, #Amiga, #Commodore 64, #Ms-dos, #Tandy model 100

  ENGLISH The Daring Rescue of Pacuvia the Sheep is a short game, but it's designed to be flexible . Getting to the end of the short adventure is pretty easy, but completing the game with a full score c... Continue reading
• Pacuvia gets her first Let's Play :-) / Pacuvia riceve il suo primo Let's Play
  December 30, 2022 by Diduz

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  #Let's play, #Amiga, #Commodore 64, #Ms-dos, #Tandy model 100, #Olivetti m-10

  ENGLISH The first (and I hope not the only one) Let's Play of Pacuvia emerged on YouTube! It's from an Italian channel I knew for some C64 tutorials published months ago. I didn't use that knowledge,... Continue reading
• Pacuvia's been cracked! / Hanno piratato Pacuvia! :-D
  December 22, 2022 by Diduz

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  #Crack intro, #Crack scene, #Commodore 64

  ENGLISH Okay, this is funny. The game's been cracked ! One day after its official release, the Pacuvia C64 version appeared on Csdb. The " cracked release ", updated with a cool traditional crack intr... Continue reading
• Version 1.0b
  December 17, 2022 by Diduz

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  Version 1.0b - December 17th, 2022 * Moved the sentence "Press any key to say goodbye" in the right place, throughout all the versions * Corrected a text layout bug in the English Windows version * Up... Continue reading