ReMI ramp-up

[LowLevel]

  On 8/15/2022 at 9:43 AM, ThunderPeel2001 said:

Am I misremembering?

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I have read only 47% of the book and I've already spotted a few more things. Some of them are simply "similar" to elements of the games and one has become a specific key object used by Guybrush.

[ThunderPeel2001]

  On 8/15/2022 at 10:38 AM, LowLevel said:

I have read only 47% of the book and I've already spotted a few more things. Some of them are simply "similar" to elements of the games and one has become a specific key object used by Guybrush.

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A rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle?

 

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Please list the things you find!

[BaronGrackle]

  On 8/15/2022 at 9:43 AM, ThunderPeel2001 said:

Other than the name LaGrande appearing (which is also where Ron Gilbert is from... La Grande, Oregon), the mixture of pirates and voodoo, and (I think) some mushrooms mentioned in the voodoo world?, I didn't spot much.

 

Am I misremembering?

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It's hard to say with some thematic elements, but I hesitate to talk about them while a poster here is reading Tides for the first time.

[LowLevel]

Thanks, @BaronGrackle. You could talk about them using spoiler "tags" or opening a new topic. I will join the discussion when I finish reading the book. 🙂

[ThunderPeel2001]

  On 8/15/2022 at 9:43 AM, ThunderPeel2001 said:

You can definitely feel it in ScummVM. I actually remember it being worse on my native PC back in the day. DOSBOX or DREAMM should also have an accurate representation of it... Definitely a good excuse to boot both games up either way (and maybe try DREAMM -- something I haven't had a chance to?).

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I asked Larry Ahern: