#MEGA65: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (attempted) Playthrough #1

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Published on June 27, 2022 9:46:26 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArcRMH8UXvs

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984)

Duration: 22:35

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So I finally got a HDMI capture device after zero research (whatever was available at the local JB HiFI) ... an Elgato HD60+ ... refuses to work on my Mac Mini ("use a USB3 port" ... they all are USB3-capable ...).

Thus this video is an experiment of trying to capture video output and synch with my iPhone ... very hit and miss.

Playing the game again after all these years reminded me how funny Douglas Adams was and, in fact, still is. I used to carry around a tall, thin copy of his "The Meaning of Liff" with me in high school {nerd}.

It seems that BSZ (Bit Shifter's Z Interpreter) has a problem with restoring save files - it hangs the MEGA - so it's going to be a bit grindy making progress as I have to keep starting from the beginning each time. But I'm making slow progress.

{Due to the use of a custom character set, it seems, using the Freezer to simply save/restore the MEGA's state doesn't work either ... see at the end}

Function keys:
F1: text colour
F3: menu bar colour
F5: border colour
F7: background colour

MEGA65 ROM version: V920371
Xilinx FPGA FW Date: 2022-06-25

Bit Shifter's Z Interpreter:
https://github.com/Edilbert/BSZ

The Infocom Files:
https://github.com/the-infocom-files/hitchhiker

Ozmoo Online - an alternative Z interpreter for Commodore machines, including the MEGA (which I couldn't get to work):
https://microheaven.com/ozmooonline/

#Infocom

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