Le Dernier Serment (The Last Oath)

[Narkhos]

For those who struggle playing the game, I made a walkthrough of the first part :

[Targhan]

Such a great game!! I advise anyone to play it!

[cwpab]

It's a shame I hate adventure games where you have health points, because the game is visually amazing.

It totally looks like an 80s game, like the best looking text adventures in mode 1 from the era.

The color choices are also perfect.

[Narkhos]

It's a shame I hate adventure games where you have health points, because the game is visually amazing.

It totally looks like an 80s game, like the best looking text adventures in mode 1 from the era.

The color choices are also perfect.

Thanks! You can definitly play it: there is no healthpoint in the game and no softlock. 

[MiguelSky]

Nice, so I only have to add "ò" character 

I created a translation project for the game on github.

https://github.com/Narkhos/le-dernier-serment-translation

For the moment I just added the html manual in french an english (Work in progress ^^).

I'm going to make a file containing all the texts for the game as soon as possible. That way, it'll be easier to translate into any language.

I got a Spanish translation for the manual! Looking forward to those game texts...

[Narkhos]

I got a Spanish translation for the manual! Looking forward to those game texts...

Hi! Cool

I published the entire sourcecode here: https://github.com/Narkhos/le-dernier-serment

I Structured the project to be 'as simple as possible' to make a translation. If you are interested I can guide you in the code. Here is a small roadmap:

database_xx.c contains all the objects and locations of the game with their names and description.
language_xx.h contains all the texts for story and menus.
parser/parser.c contains the list of verbs (and synonyms), and a list of words to ignore in the prompt

On a more technical aspect:
-  _c_SDCC3.bat is the compilation script. It needs to be modified to axcept the spanish parameter
- anywhere in the code where you found #if LANGUAGE == 1 need to be adapted for each language.
- The title screen is an image, we can keep the English title for every language (or we will need to draw the title for each lanaguage)
- DISC_XX.BAS is the launcher in basic, we can duplicate the english version. The only text in their is to warn people who don't have 128kb ram (it can be kept in english or translated. The text is 'The Last Oath needs 128kb of RAM to run'

If you have a github account, you can probably contribute directly on the project (not sure how it works)?

[MiguelSky]

Ok! Spanish version ready!! Downloadable at amstrad.es. Source code available soon at https://github.com/Narkhos/le-dernier-serment.

Great job, Narkhos! 

[Narkhos]

Great Job to you MiguelSky! 

A player on the itch.io page of the game encouter some problem to run the program on a cpc 6128 using ULIFAC. Does anyone here tested the game with this hardware?

Here is a copy of his message:

I have problems running this on real hardware (CPC6128) using ULIFAC. The disc image will not run and if I try to extract all files from the image on my PC it appears that some files are missing, so I can not run the game in direct access mode either. Would it be possible to provide a mass storage / direct access version of the game ?

I don't know how to help him solving this issue. The game works fine on my cpc 6128 with a gotek for the 3 versions (french, english and spanish). Does anyone have any information that could help?

Thanks

[Jean-Marie]

He wants a version with all the game files rather than a DSK, so that he can copy them directly on a folder created in his SD card. This one should be working hopefully.

[MiguelSky]

I tried in M4 and seems to work fine. e has to extract all files from the dsk, there are some hidden. A good way to get them is the Winape Dsk Editor (CTRL+SHIFT+F1) and show Sys files.

[Narkhos]

Thanks!

I've passed on the information. I hope it does the trick