The Pawn Remastered

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In 1985 Magnetic Scrolls released the groundbreaking adventure game 'The Pawn'.

Today, after more than 30 years, Strand Games managed to resuscitate the source code and remaster this classic game for modern hardware (with permission, of course).

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Link : https://strandgames.com/games/thePawn

Plans is afoot to remaster all the original games for modern PC's.
 

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And the story of how the data was recovered from tape backup :

Here we have possibly the only surviving backup tape of the source code to 30 year old historical game data being put into an oven and baked!

Have we gone raving mad? Have we totally lost it? What is this insanity?

The dish is: Baked tapes! Done nicely in your normal kitchen oven. Cook at 45C for 8 hours, take them out, wait to cool then server them (in your server, of course) to hopefully make a good source.

No, we're not quite totally crazy (yet). Amazing as it seems, this is the way to restore certain old tape backups. I kid you not.

Read on, for the madness...

Continue reading....
 

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Sweet... Downloading and installing The Pawn for Android as we speak....
 

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And to make things easier, the game offers an inline map, great for people who tend to get lost along the way...


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Thank you very much! I still remember this from way back when. They were considered in the upper echelon of adventure games. Immediate buy on google play for me...
 

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That whole blog is a very interesting read. Enjoyed the sections on the old arc format and beating the encryption.

It is fascinating indeed. They only had one chance, and they used it to the max.
 

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Update : theme selector was added. Now you can have a black background.

And a couple of silly, annoying bugs was chased down and squashed, including one that b0rked the iOS version on startup.

iOS version is still in beta, formal submission was made to Apple, should be in the iStore soon.
 

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Couple of screenies :

Resizable images :
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A couple of retro fonts
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...and the VGA font applied...
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Map in dark theme. Yay for nighttime playing.
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Selection of themes :
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