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Message: 7189
Author: ian.rushforth
Date: 23/03/2018
Subject: Re: Completing "Maria vs. Some Bastards"
Maria vs Some Bastards is a Softricks game. Looking at the Item Table, which in the Softricks game engine is located at pages #FE and #FF of the code, the high bytes of the last three entries (at addresses #FEFD-#FEFF) are respectively #7E, #FF and #7E.
The lowest five bits of those values suggest that those items are located in rooms #3E and #3F (62 and 63 in decimal) - the very same (non-)rooms which are used by Softricks to store the item table! So no wonder that those particular items are inaccessible!
However, that still doesn't fully explain the situation, whereby Danny apparently exceeded the number of items required to make Maria disappear in 'Hard' Mode (as stipulated by the value POKED to #9A36 by the BASIC loader), yet she stubbornly remained in place!
By the way Danny, did you ever manage to find a way to reach the two remaining items that you had seen in the game, but which you hadn't found a way to collect, the last time you reported on this matter? i.e. the leftmost items in 'The old house' (17) and 'Stinking sewer' (27).
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