AN UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURE
The Abbey of Crime
A tribute and its new editions for Commodore and PC.
I · THE MYSTERY
One abbey.
Too many secrets.
A medieval abbey, a labyrinthine library and a series of unexplained deaths. Join William of Occam and his young assistant Adso as they investigate what is hidden within its walls.
Explore, observe and follow the rhythm of monastic life. Time passes, the monks attend to their duties and the abbey does not give up its secrets easily.
HOW IT CAME TO COMMODORE →II · THE JOURNEY
From Z80
to 6502.
The Commodore conversion, created by Germán Luis Aracil Boned, translates the original program into 6502 assembly. The project began in September 2016 with a C program for the opening parchment.
Work continued with the study of the original CPC tape and the reconstruction of its routines in C. After measuring that the generated code would not fit in the available C64 memory, the game was written in ca65 assembly. Graphics, sound, loading and controls were adapted to the machine.
The versions are checked frame by frame against the original CPC game or the PC reconstruction. The C128 restores the complete map and combines multicolour graphics with high-resolution heads.
EXPLORE THE VERSIONS →III · MANY MACHINES, ONE ABBEY
Choose your
adventure.
abadia64ks
The 64 KiB Amstrad CPC tape version, with its map, rules, clock, characters and puzzles. Available on tape and disk.
abadia128ks
The complete game in C128 mode, with the map and rules of the CPC 6128 and PC versions, on disk.
A special edition
The PC version adds an EGA monitor option and a start menu to choose Spanish or English and turn footsteps, text sound and the Ave Maria on or off. The reconstruction for GNU systems offers the same choices.
Every edition lets you choose Spanish or English. The Commodore disks work with 1541 and 1571 drives.
DOWNLOAD THE GAME →IV · YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS
Open the doors
of the abbey.
Download the game for your machine or a compatible emulator. The packages include instructions in Spanish and English.
For GNU/Linux: x86-64, SDL2 2.0.18 or later, zlib and glibc 2.38 or later. On older systems, the included source can be compiled. The project repository will be made public soon.
MEET THE CREATORS →V · A TRIBUTE
The story
continues.
La abadía del crimen was created by Paco Menéndez, with graphics and cover art by Juan Delcán, and published by Ópera Soft in 1987.
The Commodore 64 and 128 conversion is the work of Germán Luis Aracil Boned.
In memory of Paco Menéndez and in tribute to Juan Delcán and the entire Ópera Soft team, for a work that lives on in our memories.
The code of this conversion is distributed under GNU GPL v3 or later. The original graphics, texts, music and data belong to their authors.
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