# italian_software

This folder mostly contains software by Italian authors.

## adventure

- Avventura_nel_castello: Avventura nel Castello is likely
  the first Italian adventure game (1982). Read the story
  about it here (in Italian):
  http://www.erix.it/retro/storia_cast.html.
  With source code provided by the author.

- Gargamesh.dsk: a text adventure, in Italian.

- Lucrezia_Xonix_RasterBlaster.dsk: L'Anello di Lucrezia is an
  Italian text adventure. Incidentally, this disk image
  also contains two other games (not Italian): Xonix and
  Raster Blaster.

- Meandro.dsk: a text adventure, in Italian.

## apple

Apple software shipped with Apple //c computers sold in Italy.

## board

- Melopoli: Monopoly-inspired game. With source code from
  the author.

## misc

- Life_and_Wator.dsk: an implementation of the Game of Life
  from the rare magazine Super Apple, and an implementation
  of Wa-Tor from the magazine MC-Microcomputer 43, 1985
  (http://www.mc-online.it).
  Wa-Tor is a nice population dynamics simulation
  (prey-predator model). Wa-Tor was first described in
  Scientific American (1984); the article later appeared
  in SA's Italian counterpart, Le Scienze (feb. 1985).

- Oneliners_1-100.dsk: one-liners, published in several
  issues of the Italian magazine Applicando. At least some
  of them were submitted by the magazine's readers.
- Oneliners_101-200.dsk: ditto.

- Oroscopo_Sintesi_Vocale: Oroscopo builds your horoscope.
  Sintesi Vocale digitizes audio from a cassette tape.
  Not sure whether these are really original from Italian
  authors (Oroscopo's source code mentions no authors;
  Sintesi Vocale is attributed to an Italian). Scanned
  articles about them from Applicando are included (the
  article about Sintesi Vocale mistakenly reports that it
  works with an Apple //c, which has no cassette port).

## productivity

- Sillax.dsk: a program to hyphenate a text document
  according to Italian rules. Used together with AppleWorks,
  this was used to produce good-looking right-justified texts.
  The program listing was published by Applicando, which
  proudly advertised it as a free desktop publishing tool
  for the Apple II: at the time, a similar program for the
  Macintosh called Sil-la (to be used with MicrosoftWord,
  PageMaker, etc.) was selling for about 380.000 lire...