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Independence

Year	2026
Publisher	Whitney Design Labs
Developers	Scott Whitney
RAM Requirement	128K
Control	Keyboard
Other Requirements	Apple IIe (128K) or IIGS. One 800K ProDOS image, both sides as folders. Online play needs a CoGS card, an Uthernet II, or a Super Serial Card to a PC running the trail-net relay; the game plays without a network too.
System 6 Compatible	No (ProDOS 8 game, boots its own disk)
Hard Drive Installable	No (boots its own disk)
Release Status	Freeware

About

Independence is a text adventure with pictures for a 128K Apple IIe, released in October 2026 by Scott Whitney of Whitney Design Labs, the author of HOME.BASE. It starts in a depot with an old wagon in the corner and parcels for the East stacked by the door, and the journey east is yours to make, by river or by road, with a day counter running. Each room has its own hi-res picture and the parser takes typed commands the way the genre always has.

What is new is the register wall. With a network card in the machine the game talks to the author's own server (trail-net, a small plaintext protocol on TCP port 6502, published on GitHub under the MIT licence). Parties that set out sign the wall with their names, their route and their days, notes can be left in a room for the next player to find, and the game shows a live count of who has gone before. The CoGS card does the networking itself (Wi-Fi or Ethernet, DHCP, TCP); an Uthernet II works with the Apple's address set by hand; a Super Serial Card reaches the server through a relay on a PC. Without any of them the game is single-player and complete.

The release is one 800K ProDOS-order image with both sides as folders, read-only. CoGS owners can boot the same image from the card's disk catalog (Browse, Games, Independence). SAVE writes to the disk, so a saved game needs a writable copy: on a CoGS card, a copy on your own share through Image Manager; on a real machine, an 800K drive or a Floppy Emu. The sha256 of the 1.0.1 image is dfd3442c62aa96c6b7730a3ad3dabfa4f8dfe00f21a3248751b6b32a407283d8. A browser edition plays on the author's GitHub Pages.

The cover is an AI-generated painting and says so on the picture. The screenshots are the game's own pixels.

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