Hello Eric,

--- Eric Platt <eplatt314--yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am a big fan of the Alternate Reality
> Games.
> It all started with my Atart ST version of the City
> (until I accidentally formated my game disk as a
> character disk, it took a while to get over it).

I did exactly the same thing with one of the Dungeon
disks on my Commodore 64 (back in 1980 something).

> Later
> I managed to play the city and the dungeon on
> emulators later, until the hard drive crashed.
>
> Lately I have been trying to play AR on my Atari 800
> emulator (Xlitcd), and an Atari ST emulator (STeem),
> which I just recently installed. Problem is that my
> 800 emulator freezes up on the title screen before
> the
> flying saucer comes onto the screen. The dungeon
> freezes up as well. And I can't get past the
> copy-protection on the ST emulator (No sleeping in
> the
> inns, getting kicked out of taverns).
> Is there anyway to get around either of these
> problems?

I've got one disk image of version 1.2 of the ST City
that seems to work fairly well. Let me know if you'd
like me to send you a copy.

> Are there Alternate Reality Games still being worked
> on? The ARO site went down quite I while ago and I
> haven't found anything since until I found this
> site.

I'm still working on a fairly modest port of the City
and the Dungeon. I've been working on this since last
year but due to work and family commitments I've only
tended to do a bit of work every so often.

So far what I have is a sort of interactive automap /
map viewer that allows you to walk around the City and
Dungeon levels and move between them via stairways
like the original Dungeon. I've done some work on some
of the modules such as the D&P and Dungeon guilds
including graphics and music (.OGG versions of the
original Atari music sampled using AtariWin Plus).
Still no 3D view, encounters or items.

I've just about completed some project webpages which
I plan to upload along with a simple demo of what I've
done so far.

> One other thing, I am pretty skilled at programming
> in
> C++, and was wondering if there are any legal
> problems
> I should worry about if I want to reprogram a more
> updated AR.

I think Philip Price was ok about the idea when other
people have raised it in the past, though he said that
they would need his permission. I think it might
depend on how "updated" your version was. Good luck if
you go ahead anyway.

Guilherme

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