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Dan Sanderson is one of the lucky ones, who can call a MEGA65 his own. And thankfully he is also one of those, who regularly write and publish the results of his experiments.

In his current article he dedicates himself to the adventure genre for the machine. Besides one of the more recent productions Hybernated he has taken a detailed look at quite a number of well-known games, that are much, much older. These include, of course, Infocom's Z-Machine adventures, Ozmoo - a Z-Machine alternative, Inform 6 & 7, Dialog, and adventure games written in BASIC.

Text adventures still have a special fascination, and this is not only true, if you play them on a MEGA65. But especially the fact that the underlying game engines can be experienced in this millennium, and games - sometimes dating back to the 70s - can be brought back to life, is pure joy.

If you're up for the MEGA65 adventure, but couldn't get hold of one of the machines, Steven Comb's article is very much recommended. There he gets the MEGA65 Bitstream running directly on a Nexys4 FPGA.