DETECTIVE STORY: tweaked French version and brand-new English version!

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ibisum wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:48 am Having played it a bit now, I'm really enjoying it .. Only issue is the whole (T)ake/(D)rop interface was confusing and I ended up driving all over town until I realized how to 'input' take/drop instructions ..
Hi ibisum, and thanks for your feedback.
Yes, the Take/Drop system is a bit confusing at first, and you only get 'confirmation' of what you've got in your inventory after you pocketed 2 items.
Anyway, in case of doubt you can press I to show your inventory.
ibisum wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:48 am and it would be cool if it were possible to interrupt the text with a keypress, when you know what you wanna do next ..
Now, allowing for the interruption of text being displayed would be quite complicated to implement and may cause players to miss important info... not to mention it may cause additional bugs :D
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Symoon wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:24 am By the way, I updated Oric.org with a transfer I mande from Jean's tape in... 2006! :shock:
Symoon,

There is also a duplicate, empty entry for DETECTIVE STORY here, wrongly attributed to ERE Informatique, which should be deleted:
https://www.oric.org/software/detective_story-1362.html

I stumbled on it after searchig "oric.org detective story" in Google and getting this hit:
https://www.oric.org/index.php?page=sof ... m_log=1362

The correct page for the game is of course https://www.oric.org/software/detective_story-1363.html
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retroric wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 4:09 pm Symoon,

There is also a duplicate, empty entry for DETECTIVE STORY here, wrongly attributed to ERE Informatique, which should be deleted:
Well spotted.
You should ask Jede; I don't have the rights to delete things!
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retroric wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:18 pm ... it would greatly help me if you could send me the original (Microsoft Word ?) editable document ...
Here it is :)

Edit1 : In a second time, I also found the EXCEL 97 file with originals tables
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Thank you very much for the files Dom! I'll start working on the translation ASAP but first I have three prioriy tasks:
  1. compare the new game .tap file uploaded by Symoon with the prvious one I based my work on, and check if there are corrections I need to carry over to my version
  2. correct remaining bugs in my tweaked French and English versions
  3. translate the Instructions part (intro.tap) I missed
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