+adamantyr Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Well I didn't quite make Christmas... But I did get it done in 2020! Realms of Antiquity: The Shattered Crown is now released! Digital edition is available immediately, collector's editions are in pre-order and will ship late January/early February. I've put together a website for it here, you'll find links to the store to purchase it on the product page: http://quixotic.adamantyr.com/ If you have questions, check the FAQ on my website for answers, and post here if you can't find what you need. I'll update the FAQ accordingly! Excelsior! Time to see how long before I have to release a new build... 21 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cncfreak Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Awesome, Glad to see this made it to release. Definitely will pick up the digital edition as I don't have the hardware to run it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Definitely looking forward to hearing the rest of the community share their experiences of the game. It's huge! This will be an adventure a lot of us are on for quite some time to come. There are a tonne of sidequests and optional areas. And playing the game with all available companions would take many playthroughs. So as much as beating the main quest is a long road, it's also kind of just the beginning. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budz2355 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Sick. This is awesome. I have a sams card from when krsaul made them, I regular 90k 5.25" floppy drive, a 180k 3.5" drive and a TIPI (as of today), and a final grom 99, and a 384K horizon ramdisk hooked up. I think these are the only relevant HW for this game? I prefer to run as much off OG hardware as possible. Recommendation to on what to buy? Is there like an 'all in edition' where I can get all the floppies and the cart? Also...what does the cart do if I have the floppies and/or vice versa? Like can I just straight up run this off the cartridge? I definitely want the physical edition, just want to make sure I can actually run the physical edition I order off my system ? I just do want to buy all the cool stuff and then have to xfer it to tipi and run the digital edition if I can avoid it -- I need that disk drive grinding away to satiate myself! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chue Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I ordered a boxed copy with 5.25" disks. I don't own the necessary hardware to run the game off floppy, but will run it under emulation for now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 7 minutes ago, budz2355 said: Sick. This is awesome. I have a sams card from when krsaul made them, I regular 90k 5.25" floppy drive, a 180k 3.5" drive and a TIPI (as of today), and a final grom 99, and a 384K horizon ramdisk hooked up. I think these are the only relevant HW for this game? I prefer to run as much off OG hardware as possible. Recommendation to on what to buy? Is there like an 'all in edition' where I can get all the floppies and the cart? Also...what does the cart do if I have the floppies and/or vice versa? Like can I just straight up run this off the cartridge? I definitely want the physical edition, just want to make sure I can actually run the physical edition I order off my system ? I just do want to buy all the cool stuff and then have to xfer it to tipi and run the digital edition if I can avoid it -- I need that disk drive grinding away to satiate myself! The TIPI is the best way to play the game, honestly. Adam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Though the game let's you configure which logical disks store which game volumes. These could all be separate volumes, or all one volume on TIPI, since space is not a constraint. So there is flexibility there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 If this is ever updated, does a purchase include access to the upgraded version? Or is it this purchase = this version; new version = new purchase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cncfreak Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Also I was wondering on average, how many hours does it take to complete the main story? Been playing it a little today and have really enjoyed it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespertillio Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Ordered mine. Looking forward to it:-)Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 The last tester who completed the game took 191 hours. If new versions are released due to bugs and updates, anyone who purchased the software will get the update, probably through notification via email. If the changes necessitate an alteration to the cartridge ROM that gets a bit trickier but it can be fixed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cncfreak Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 19 minutes ago, adamantyr said: The last tester who completed the game took 191 hours. If new versions are released due to bugs and updates, anyone who purchased the software will get the update, probably through notification via email. If the changes necessitate an alteration to the cartridge ROM that gets a bit trickier but it can be fixed. HOLY SMOKE!! that's awesome. Sounds like a lot of playtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Nice work Adam! We never lost the faith in you ? Looking forward to a boxed copy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Hey Adam, Way to go on completing this most ambitious project. This game looks fabulous. I’m especially impressed by the professional packaging and materials that come along with the collector’s edition — awesome! I have an original TIPI with JediMatt 32k expansion RAM. Guessing I have a reason to order the SAMs sidecar now. Happy New Year! James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 This looks amazing but I am curious why it requires the following: Quote Editor/Assembler, Extended BASIC or TI-Writer cartridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebeep Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 purchased. following Nox Archaist, this is totally unexpected gift. thanks for timely release !! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 1 hour ago, cbmeeks said: This looks amazing but I am curious why it requires the following: If you don't have a FinalGROM to load the ROM on, you'll need one of those three cartridges to play the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 If Adam looks back in his email, I've been professional nagging since at least 2007 for this game! ? My earliest email exchanges (that hotmail didn't decide to loose was 2005) - at that point it was about an Eastern Front Clone for the TI-99/4a. Now, that this little task is out of the way, maybe Eastern Front will make it back to the front burner! ? Thanks Adam, you know, I've been looking forward to this for a long time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 30 minutes ago, dhe said: Now, that this little task is out of the way, maybe Eastern Front will make it back to the front burner! I believe I saw some online notes from someone (???) about an Eastern Front clone for the 99/4A? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Attention all: First bug reported! The scare spell crashes the game. I've already got a fix ready, now I just need to work with Greg on getting it out to the public... or waiting to see if other bugs come up first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 2 hours ago, adamantyr said: If you don't have a FinalGROM to load the ROM on, you'll need one of those three cartridges to play the game. I have the FinalGROM. I'm just curious as to what these carts have that the game needs. ? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 They're just loaders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Ah, so they provide basic code for loading from disk. I'm new to TI and disks (always used cassettes and carts). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, adamantyr said: Attention all: First bug reported! The scare spell crashes the game... So your game basically scares itself to death? ?? Edited December 30, 2020 by jrhodes 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 2 hours ago, cbmeeks said: Ah, so they provide basic code for loading from disk. I'm new to TI and disks (always used cassettes and carts). you can only load assembly language programs from those original TI carts.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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