LANE MASTODON VS. THE BLUBBERMEN

This was the first Infocomic: a new type of story containing nice graphics
full with cinematic-sequences! Infocomics were programmed for Infocom by
Tom Snyder productions and their C64 versions were saved from oblivion thanks
to the PRECAP project.

Lane Mastodon was written by Steve Meretzky, the author of Planetfall, 
Sorcerer, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Stationfall,
and co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was released on
March 1988.

HYPE TIME: The original copy from the PRECAP project would run only on the 
PC64 emulator. However, I managed to fix that and the copy presented here runs
on all emulators without any need for 1541 emulation. As a result, whatever I
was saying for the text Infocom adventures applies here as well:

EMULATOR NOTE: It is not recommended to play any Infocomic on CCS64, since
there is no way to turn off its 1541 emulation and the games load too slow.
On C64S, Vice, and PC64, though, any Infocomic will load instantly and you
will notice only a minor delay for loading new graphic sequences while
playing, making the gameplay much more enjoyable!

BOO TIME: Lane Mastodon sticks at a point (thankfully very close to the end).
I traced the problem at a missing sector: Sector 13 of Track 14 is totally
empty. Since PRECAP claims to have copied an original diskette, it seems that
either the C64 Lane Mastodon release was faulty (very unlikely) or that the
original disk used by PRECAP was damaged (very likely). Either way, if anybody
has a 100% working copy (veeeery unlikely) pls upload it to Commodore Zone!

I will also like to add that the games' colors look more lively on C64S and
Vice, than on CCS64 and PC64 (well, to me at least!). You see, I had the
Commodore 1901 color monitor which had a black screen (sort like Sony
Trinitron!) and the colors were always lively and intense. CCS64's and PC64's
colors are too pale for my liking (maybe their authors were used to the other
monitors and copied them that way...) As a big part of the Infocomics' graphics
are composed of thin lines, intensity gives them a greater "volume", making them
look much nicer (but then again my opinion may be totally subjective, for the
reasons I explained above...)

Well, that's all!
Best Regards
Dimitris
