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Hobbit -- The True Story

The Terror of Mecha Godzilla -- The True Story

by Fredrik Ramsberg

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I found these two conversational adventures here http://www.spagmag.org/archives/h.html#hobbit

The Terror of Mecha Godzilla is working correctly. The Hobbit is not yet fully tested.

NAME: Hobbit - The True Story
AUTHOR: Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson
EMAIL: d91frera SP@G und.ida.liu.se (Ramsberg -- no address provided for Berntsson)
DATE: Monday 19 April 1993
PARSER: Very strange and not very good
SUPPORTS: DOS
AVAILABILITY: Shareware -- $10, but I think it's a joke
URL: ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/hobbit.zip

NAME: The Terror of Mecha Godzilla - The True Story
AUTHOR: Fredrik Ramsberg
EMAIL: d91frera SP@G und.ida.liu.se
DATE: Monday 4 October 1993
PARSER: Very strange and not very good
SUPPORTS: DOS
AVAILABILITY: Shareware -- $10, but I think it's a joke
URL: ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/mecha.zip

Build

To build the project:

make

The build process supports cross platform compilation. To set the target architecture add the argument ARCH with the value when calling make. Supported architectures:

• amd64
• i386
• armhf
• arm64

make ARCH=armhf

Install

sudo make install

Run

Execute the program running the following command:

batbox

Run a game

batbox mechagodzilla
> RESTART

To enable debugging add -d before the game:

batbox -d mechagodzilla