Hi. First post
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I'm a Sokoban enthusiast and would like to be able to play the very first versions of Sokoban. Was very happy to see peter_j's post on this thread, and downloaded Sokoban.7z from the supplied link. However, experienced the same problem that Jamtex describes in his first post. Namely, corruption of last levels. This is strange, because Jamtex writes with respect to the file in Sokoban.7z: "Sokoban 1 listed and worked fine". I apologize in advance if I'm doing something stupid; please be patient with me as I have never heard of the PC-8801 up till now (and can't read Japanese).
The details:
1. Downloaded Sokoban.7z from
http://www.blackdiamond.co.za/temp/Sokoban.7z2. Downloaded x88_1_5_0.zip from
http://www.cug.net/~manuke/x88_1_5_0.zip3. Downloaded pc88roms.zip from
http://andre.facadecomputer.com/saw/pc88roms.zip4. Uncompressed, copied, etc. Am using Linux. Running "ls" on the relevant directory gives:
font.rom KANJI2.ROM Soko-Ban.d88 X88000.txt
KANJI1.ROM Pc88.rom X88000.exe
5. Ran X88000.exe via wine, "wine X88000.exe"
6. Picked the "Disk Image..." option in the "Image" menu, pressed "Add" button and chose "Soko-Ban.d88" via point-and-clicking the file, and pressing "Open". Pressed "OK" to exit the "Disk Image" dialog.
7. Picked the "Reset" option in the "System" menu.
8. Got sentence in Japanese characters with a question mark at the end. As far as I understand, this is "what level?". Pressed "1", hit enter, and then hit the F1 key. Worked, kind of. The level appeared OK, but when playing the dots representing the places the boxes should go disappeared after stepping on them. Also, some keystrokes registered as double presses. Anyway, level 1 was a success, since I got to at least see it correctly.
9. Did System->Rest, and entered "20" after the question mark. Got an invalid Sokoban screen. Specifically, the man can't move. Tried to upload an image but got "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached".
Help...
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