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Athanor 1: The Awakening

Year	2026
Publisher	Brutal Deluxe
Developers	Antoine Vignau & Olivier Zardini (IIGS); Eric Safar (original); Sophie Lecomte (graphics)
Control	Keyboard
Other Requirements	GS/OS. Copy Athanor.8 into System/Fonts and reboot, then launch ATHANOR from the Finder. English and French 800K disks.
System 6 Compatible	Yes
Hard Drive Installable	Yes
Release Status	Freeware

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Athanor 1: The Awakening is Eric Safar's adventure, ported to the Apple IIgs by Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini of Brutal Deluxe and posted in November 2026. It is set in the south of Italy in the 12th century. You play a Franciscan monk sent by his order to an abbey where something has gone wrong, and you have to find out what. Safar Games first released it in 2014, written on an Oric and drawn on a Thomson TO8D. The IIgs version is 65816. Sophie Lecomte drew the pictures.

You type a verb and a noun, the verb in the infinitive and the noun in the singular, as in examine door or search chest. INVENT lists what you carry, EXIT lists the ways out, and COMBINE or ASSEMBLE joins two objects. Open-Apple-M stops and starts the music. Open-Apple-Q quits. The IIgs music is not Hervé Monchatre's original score. It is William Byrd's Virginal Dance 41, and La Montagnura and Isabelle Jeanette by J. Curtis Clark, from John Sankey's recordings, which he released free to copy.

The disks are 800K ProDOS images, volume ATHANOR, one in English and one in French. There is no ProDOS kernel, so mount the disk and launch ATHANOR from the Finder. Copy the font Athanor.8 into System/Fonts and reboot before you launch it. The 2014 release included physical clue tiles. This archive hosts the two disks Brutal Deluxe posted. The manuals are on the product page, the source is on GitHub, and a video of the solution is there too.

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