Citadel Adventure: Everybody Might Be a Member of the KGB

(Continued from my previous post.) First, a resolution of the technical mystery with the caps-swap, courtesy of Andrea Pachetti in the comments (who has a blog dedicated to the history of Italian videogames, I liked this post on patents). By Louis Mittelman, Jr. Via the Smithsonian, Usage Conditions Apply. As I theorized, this was ported from a Commodore PET; Andrea found it was specifically a PET 2001 (the first model) with a 32K memory extension added. (The main smoking gun was a “POKE 59468,14” command in the source code which causes the PET to switch to a mode which “looks better for typing, but has fewer graphics characters”.) In the VICE emulator you need to choose that particular machine, then pick “32k” for memory which will make the model list as “unknown”, then load this file Andrea prepared; this allows for the original BASIC source to run with normal capitalization. For the remaining screenshots I’ll be giving them on PET. (For the most part. The save states were having…