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1981 BASIC adventure game comes to a new platform, the TRS-80 MC-10


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After acquiring a copy of the CAPTAIN 80 book, I finally got around to typing in the game--and discovered that 1981 glitch was so catastrophic that ARCTIC ADVENTURE wasn't just unwinnable, but unplayable. As long as I was repairing it, I also made some meatier improvements to the gameplay, and figured out how to make my remastered edition run in a web browser--no TRS-80 required. Meanwhile, the Alice retains a following of its own--last week, I saw one on display amongst all the Apple IIs, Commodore 64s, Ataris, Amigas, and other bigger-name micros at the Vintage Computer Festival here in the Bay Area.

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