C64 La Cassetta del Misterio or C64 The Mysterious Cassette is a new Amiga game from Darkage Software. It’s a text adventure with graphics that uses photorealistic images that seem AI generated. The requirements are an Amiga with AGA and 2MB of RAM. My Amiga 500 doesn’t support that, so I must play it on another device. When I booted up my MiSTer, I noticed that I haven’t yet set it up with a harddrive partition yet. And the game comes on a USB stick with the Amiga files on it. And I don’t know if or how you would mount that on the MiSTer.

At first I tried to work further with the MiSTer, but the Wifi didn’t work anymore. I haven’t touched the thing in a while and it’s very frustrating to realize it’s such a finnicky device. And people keep saying it’s such a user friendly device. I guess a new update broke something, because other people were complaining about it too. A LAN cable proved adequate to update the MiSTer, but by then, I had given up on this route.

Next I turned to the Turbo Chameleon in my Commodore 64. On that I have installed a MiniMig core and even put a bootable system HDF file on the memory card. But you cannot plug a USB stick into the Chameleon, so that also didn’t work.

I therefore resorted to installing WinUAE on my Windows laptop, only to experience that the only kick.rom file it would recognize was a 1.3 one, which didn’t support my HDF file. After searching for a while and obtaining a 3.1 rom that was accepted, I continued to boot the HDF file and after mounting the USB stick, copied the contents over to the HDF. I got the game running under WinUAE and it also works on the Turbo Chameleon.

Only now do I realize that I could have booted up the Raspberry Pi with RetroPie on it and just plugged the USB stick in the Pi. Oh well, it’s good to have options I guess.

Anyway, I now have the game running, but didn’t have any time left to play it. That’s just as well, because I didn’t know how to proceed after just two commands. I listened to the music a bit and turned it off. That’s for another day.

The game comes in a much too large a box for just the USB stick. It does contain a poster. But I don’t like posters very much. I wish they would have kept the box a bit smaller. Even then it would have offered enough space to put a little paper manual inside with maybe some more information about the developers and the story behind the development of the game.