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- MOSSYCON5
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- By Lord Ronin from Q-Link
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- April the 5th 2009 is the date slated
- for MossyCon5. A small get together of
- C= users from three or more states.
- The first three years were held at
- Mohr Realties Games, a small little
- game [RPG] shop that also promotes the
- Commodore line. OK in truth it is the
- headquarters of the Anything Commodore
- Users Group CBM Reg Number 447. This
- is a small shop and a small amount of
- people arrived; but after the amount
- of demos that have grown so have the
- attendees. There wasn't enough room
- for the pipe smoke, so for MossyCon4
- in 2008, we moved to a Pizza place,
- and they gave us the space for free!
- OK some promo adverts in the press
- releases helped sweeten the deal.
-
- So we decided to hold MossyCon 5 at
- the same place. This year we are
- expecting: more music work from Steve
- Jones, a Display of C= items from
- Robert Bernardo of the Fresno
- California Users Group, along with an
- Amiga One with the new OS 4.1
- installed. Perhaps a demo of the Amiga
- 4000 Power Tower. Well that's on the
- assumption we can get it set up right
- with the monitor.
-
- The first idea came from Steve Jones
- of Prophet 64 fame, He suggested that
- we do a game challenge: this idea grew
- from using the Adventure Construction
- Set and a 30 minute adventure, Into a
- gigantic hell storm. First the ACS is
- still being used, But the time limit
- has been removed, then the idea of one
- theme for a game was deleted. As ACS
- will create Sword & Sorcery,
- Spy/Mystery (great for horror too)
- Along with Sci-Fi.
-
- That idea expanded; some people like
- text adventures, so adventure writer
- was added to the mix. Then some don't
- like ACS and prefer Dungeon Creator
- found in Load Star by David Caruso II,
- then some other game makers that I do
- and others that I don't have in my
- personal collection where tossed into
- the works. The end result is that we
- hope that there will be many games
- produced for the micro con. The Idea
- is that we want to have some 1541
- disks of the games, but we also we
- want to have them in a playable format
- from a CD This is a task that I hope
- to have completed at the time of
- MossyCon 5. One other part has also
- introduced, I admit it was by myself
- the dice gamer. Making adventures for
- dice and paper games, using Geos as
- the tool for writing and for maps.
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- Don't get too scared, I have found a
- way using post print 3.8 and GeoDos to
- put the files onto disks readable from
- a Linux system, then on the Linux
- system convert the files to a .pdf
- format. This PDF file works well on
- the reader that myself and several
- others users have for testing. In fact
- it is how I made the 20 page Cyber
- Space edition of our newsletter.
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- Right now there are three known games
- in ACS, half of one in Dungeon Creator
- and assorted bits in other game
- makers, along with a nearly finished
- adventure for the out of print High
- Colonies Sci-Fi game. Taking up about
- an entire 1541 disk side, in
- uncompressed form. Now then, as we
- have readers throughout the world, and
- most won't be attending MossyCon5, it
- would be nice to have this available
- as well, but I don't think there is
- space, I don't need the competition at
- the bar gang VBG.
-
- Anyone in the C= world can contact me
- about submitting their work, I'll go
- over in detail the simplistic rules
- for the game making, then when
- completed the work is sent to me and
- through the prayers to the great C=
- Headed goddess. Your work will be on
- the CD at MossyCon5. All credit is
- yours and the CD isn't for sale
- either, a complete labour of love. So
- if this is of interest to you. Feel
- Free to contact me ....
- lordronin@vcsweb.com. I'll get back to
- you, though a bit slow at times in the
- e-mail these days.
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