Two Days to the Race
Your name is Emilia Vittorini, You're the daughter of Augusto Vittorini, who founded the Industria Torinese Automobili (ITA) with his brother Tullio. Your father is abroad trying to raise funds, but something went wrong and you heard your uncle coming back slamming the door. Your mission is to find what happened and how you can help your family. I will be your ears and eyes.
Good luck.
SYSTEMS
C64, VIC20+32K, C128, Plus/4, PET models with at least 32K of RAM, , ZX Spectrum 48K, MS-DOS, Olivetti M20, RC2014, Commander X16.
INSTRUCTIONS
Two Days to the Race is a text adventure game that you can play on your vintage computers. A text adventure is a game where all the interaction takes places with textand you instruct your alter ego by typing command at a prompt. The rest is done by your fantasy!
Here are some important commands:
look: describe again the location where the player is present
examine object: describe the specified object
north or n or go to north: moves to the north, if possible. Other directions are s, e, w, up, down.
The command bye allows to exit from the game and restart well... it restarts it. You can take objects that you "notice" and you can have a list of carried objects with inventory.
The following abbreviations are available:
- l for look
- x or ex for examine
- i or inve or inven for inventory
The game is divided in four parts. When you complete one of them, you will get a code that allows to immediately jump to the beginning of the next part. Write down that to resume the game in the future. Passwords are important, write them down!
You can freely download a digital version of the game with no restrictions. This game is included as a free bonus in the physical version of The Queen's Footsteps: https://darwinne.itch.io/the-queens-footsteps
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How do you use the ST files? My emulator (Hatari) says they are invalid
Hi, did you use the original Atari TOS or EmuTOS in Hatari? If you tried with EmuTOS, did you get the same error with an Atari TOS?
Since the game files are in TOS format, I replaced the ROM TOS, so I guess the answer to your question is neither. But I'm really not very competent at messing with Hatari settings and have never worked with TOS files before. Aside from replacing the TOS it runs on the default configuration. Anyway I did get the game running both on C64 and Amiga, so I think I'm good.
Hi, so you tried the game with the original Atari ROM and TOS and it does not work? In that case, I should definitely have a look at it. Do the other games (The Queen's Footsteps and Silk Dust) work?
No, what I mean is that I replaced the ROM TOS with the game TOS. I probably shouldn't be doing that - it didn't even seem like a good idea at the time, but I didn't know where else to put it. How do you mount it?
Ah, the game is not meant to replace the ROM in the emulator, there are just two executables (for 40 and 80 columns).
You can try to search for an image of an original Atari ROM and OS disk. Hatari will load it and will behave as the original computer with the Atari OS. Usually I configure Hatare so that to have a shared directory on my OS seen as a hard disk inside the emulated computer. The game files are just executables and can be run with a double click. Try also the other games, I remember spending quite some time developing The Queen's Footsteps on the Atari.