Short:        The Abbey of Crime Extensum adventure
Uploader:     kikems@mac.com (Kikems)
Author:       Manuel Pazos, Daniel Celemin; MorphOS port by Kikems
Type:         game/role
Version:      0.2
Architecture: ppc-morphos
Requires:     MorphOS 3.x, sdl2.library 53.22, AHI, 256 MB RAM
URL:          https://www.abadiadelcrimenextensum.com/

La Abadia del Crimen Extensum / The Abbey of Crime Extensum
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Native MorphOS port of "The Abbey of Crime Extensum", the free remake of
the classic Spanish 8-bit game "La Abadia del Crimen" (Opera Soft, 1987),
by Manuel Pazos and Daniel Celemin.

Official website: https://www.abadiadelcrimenextensum.com/

It is the year 1327. Brother William of Occam and his novice Adso arrive at
a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy, where a monk has died in strange
circumstances. You have seven days to find out what is going on before the
Abbot loses patience with you.

This is not an emulator or a Java virtual machine: the original Java game
has been translated to C++ and runs natively on PowerPC, with the same game
logic as the original (checked frame by frame against the Java version).


Features
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- Complete game: seven days, all characters, the library labyrinth, the
  ending and the credits.
- Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French and Polish (the German
  translation in the original game is incomplete; it can be selected but
  most texts appear in Spanish or English).
- Music, sound effects and voices.
- Save and load games (savedata.bin, next to the program).
- Window x1, x2, x3 or fullscreen.
- All game resources packed in a single file (AbadiaExtensum.dat).


Requirements
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- MorphOS 3.x.
- sdl2.library 53.22 or newer (available on MorphOS-Storage).
- AHI for sound.
- 256 MB of RAM or more.


Installation
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Copy the AbadiaExtensum drawer anywhere and double-click the icon.
AbadiaExtensum.dat must stay in the same drawer as the program.

The Manual_XX.pdf files are the game manual in English (EN), Spanish (ES),
Italian (IT), French (FR), Polish (PL) and German (DE): story, controls, the
camera icon, objects and a spoiler-free outline of each day. Double-click
their icons to open them with the PDF viewer of the system (VPDF).


Icon ToolTypes
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LANGUAGE=en         Game language: en, es, it, fr, pl (de: incomplete).
                    Without it the game starts in English.
SCALE=2             Window size: 1, 2, 3 or FULLSCREEN.
RENDERER=OVERLAY    Optional: OVERLAY (default), OPENGL or SOFTWARE.
HWSCALE             Optional: the game draws at 320x208 and the screen is
                    enlarged when shown. Faster on slow machines.
LOG                 Optional: writes AbadiaExtensum.log at start-up
                    (window size and renderer actually used).

From the Shell the same options can be given as arguments, for example:
  AbadiaExtensum es SCALE=3


Controls
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Cursor keys         Move William (classic or directional control,
                    selectable in the options menu)
Cursor down         Make Adso step aside (Space with directional control)
Space               Skip texts and dialogues
Y / N               Answer Adso's questions (S / N in Spanish)
Return              Show the map (once Adso has drawn it)
Esc                 Options menu (continue, save, load, sound, music,
                    control type, fullscreen, extras, restart, exit)
F1                  Window / fullscreen


Credits
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Original game "La Abadia del Crimen" (1987): Paco Menendez and Juan Delcan,
Opera Soft.
"The Abbey of Crime Extensum": Manuel Pazos and Daniel Celemin.
MorphOS port: Kikems.

Thanks to:
- Ryan C. Gordon and the SDL team, and BeWorld for SDL2 on MorphOS.
- Sean Barrett for stb_image and stb_vorbis.
- Javier Rivas (Javirulo) for testing and help.
- Tolk13n for testing on MorphOS.

The game and its graphics, music and texts belong to their authors. This
port is distributed free of charge, like the original game.


History
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0.2 - Faster drawing (alpha blending and copies); HWSCALE ToolType.
      ToolTypes are also read when the game is started from a dock or
      from the Shell without arguments. PDF game manual in six languages.
      Fixed the drawer icon of the archive. Corrected the controls in this
      readme.
0.1 - First MorphOS release.


If you like this port you can support my work at https://ko-fi.com/kikems