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2010-06-06

Back from sleeping, with a much requested title! I guess Prince of Persia will bring back fond memories to most people. It did bring lots to me! Run, jump, slash, drink potions, timed switches, fun times! Patching it for, well, anything that has TOS 2.06 or above was a complete hassle. Never mind the sample players being totally weird to begin with, the game would crash long before that. After a bit of thinking, that was fixed and so were the sample players (sort of). Then the joystick wouldn't respond! Then the fixed sample player would crash due to some bizarre code! Finally there was the hurdle of finding a copy of the game with the correct files (this proved to be a nightmare, as even Pasti versions have corrupt files). In the end I had to mix and match files from various versions. Which led me to include both the English and French texts of the game. In the folder "Images", there are 2 folders called "English" and "French". You can copy/overwrite the files to "Images" and magically you''ll have translated the game! (If anyone has more languages, send some disk images!) Anyway, that's quite enough. I did my best with it, hope it works on all machines and that you enjoy it. Oh, and as a bonus for you peeps with older machines, you get a brand new intro from !Cube/Aggression :) P.S. If you haven't already, check out Jordan Mechner's old journals archive where he describes, with lots of details, the creation of the game :) P.S. 2: If you''re whining about Cube's intro working on old machines only, it's because it needs an ST/E to function properly. MSTE owners can watch the intro by holding ALT while loading prince.prg (make sure you switch to 8mhz first!)

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