Make Your Own Murder Party, Explained in 64 Seconds
30Generated Scenario:
Here's the link ( https://archive.org/details/makeYourOwnMurderPartyGeneratedScenario ) to The Big Kill 6-player scenario I generated when making the video. I picked various fictional characters to invite. Unfortunately, when I selected Buffy (the vampire slayer) Summers as a participant and game host, I didn't notice that the murder victim's name is Jeremy Summers, so there may be a little confusion on the last names (D'oh!). SpongeBob was selected by the program as the murderer. Skully's and SpongBob's invitations contain game props, as does the host materials printout.
Tips for running from D64s:
- Surprisingly, it's not available on CSDB, but it is on archive.org: https://archive.org/compress/d64_Murder_Party_1986_Electronic_Arts_Side_A
- VICE 3.6.1 on windows will not successfully boot this game (it hangs before asking for SIDE B). Every other emulator/version I tried booted the game successfully. The mighty Markus Brenner was on standby in case I ran into technical problems, but I ultimately got it all working. :)
- Make sure to mount side B as read only, otherwise it sometimes tries to read party records from that disk (and potentially write to it).
Virtual printing:
The Ultimate II+ virtual printing worked like a charm. The emulator approach was more challenging...
Most emulators I tried would run the software, but failed to virtually print (device 4, secondary address 7 for mixed case) the scenarios. I couldn't get some emulators to virtually print at all (e.g., vice v2.4 and vice v3.1 on windows). Some I got to virtually print (e.g., ccs64 v3.9.3 when moved outside a privileged folder), but it wouldn't work with the program. Thankfully, windows VICE 3.5 did everything I needed.
TRANS Fiction Systems:
Make Your Own Murder Party (1986, C64, Apple II, DOS, ) was created by TRANS Fiction Systems, which went on to create Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy (1986, C64, Apple II, DOS, MacOS), Hidden Agenda (1988, DOS, MacOS), and Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge (1989, DOS)
Links:
- http://www.c64sets.com/set.html?id=63
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Your_Own_Murder_Party
- Program/developer Ron Martinez (and founder of TRANS Fiction Systems) has more recently founded Headcanon. Headcanon hosts a page about Make Your Own Murder Party and hints at where this 80s technology could go next: https://www.headcanon.com/project/murder-party/
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