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what's the plan?
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| The project
tries to preserve classic adventure
games, for all computer systems from the early home computers like
the TRS-80 Model I via the classics (Apple
II, C-64, Sinclair
Spectrum...) to the 16-bit ones (Amiga,
Mac, IBM PC...).
Adventure games are "classic" by our definition if they are |
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at least five years old and | |
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no longer commercially available (excluding the second hand market!) |
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have been abandoned by their authors and distributors, and if no efforts
are made to preserve them they will disappear irrevocably. PreCAP attempts
to be a "library" for these games: preserving them for future reference
and, hopefully, the enjoyment of adventure gamers.
All the games will be transfered from original disks. Just as libraries do not collect badly xeroxed copies of books with pages missing, PreCAP is not interested in old cracks that have gone through a hundred hands, losing a few disk sectors to bit rot or worthless "fast copy" programs along the way. With a breakout clone or a platform game this isn't much of a problem: play it from start to finish and you'll know whether the copy is okay or not. But you can play an adventure game from beginning to end without ever encountering the buggy part. It is simply impossible to check every action in an adventure game. Due to their complexity the only way to guarantee that they are 100% correct is not to use pirated copies at all. If necessary, cracks will be included, but only as documented patches to the original disks. |
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what we have so far
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| Currently archived are C-64 versions of adventures by the following companies: |
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Synapse (Mindwheel, Essex, Brimstone, Breakers) | |
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Adventure International (Adventureland, Pirate Adventure, Secret Mission, Voodoo Castle, Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle, Questprobe: The Hulk, Spiderman, Fantastic Four) | |
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Sirius (Blade of Blackpoole, Critical Mass, Gruds in Space) | |
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Sierra On-Line (Mission Asteroid, Ulyssses and the Golden Fleece, Wizard and the Princess) | |
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Spinnaker (Below the Root, Swiss Family Robinson, Rendezvous with Rama, Amazon, Alice in Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Treasure Island, The Wizard of Oz, Dragonworld, Nine Princes in Amber, Perry Mason) | |
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Infocom (Gamma Force, Lane Mastodon, ZorkQuest 1 and 2) |
| All D64 images have been transfered from the original disks, all the documentation is available (except for the Synapse games), and everything runs under C-64 emulation. |
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precap needs you!
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| PreCAP is very much a work in progress. Please help it along if you can. We need original disks of the games missing from the collection. We need manuals to scan and OCR. We need color scans of the packaging. We need hint books, solutions, articles from computer magazines, interviews with game authors. If you can contribute anything that would help making the collection more complete, please contact us at |
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