Intermeco
It made me sad to hear that Bosnia and Hercegovina's national anthem from 1995, Jedna i Jedina
, had been retired only a few years after its adoption. I realize that the lyrics may have been too Bosnian-oriented to use in a multiethnic state, but that melody was sooo beautiful. I have a CD with 60 or so national anthems, played by the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. I always thought that the Bosnian hymn was the best of the lot.
Yesterday, John Cowan sent me a pointer to National Anthems Reference Page, which has MIDI files, lyrics and sheet music for most national anthems, and some other hymns. This site rekindled my fascination with national anthems, and I decided to do some research to find out which anthem, since the old Bosnian anthem was replaced, is the world's nicest.
So now I've heard through maybe three quarters of the songs on the site, including those I've already heard elsewhere. Guess which non-fictional, current national anthem is at the top of my list?
Yes, indeed. The new Bosnian national anthem, made official in 1998, by the title of Intermeco
. These people really know how to make patriotic music!
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Urk.
Woke up before the alarm clock rang this morning. I turned my head, hoping beyond hope that it was still in the middle of the night, so I could get a few more hours of sleep.
06:56
Geez, how typical. Four minutes early. And this is not the first time. Sometimes my biological clock is tormenting me with its precision.
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TADS files for Norwegian
The discussion on an old blog posting on IFComp 2003 by Huftis mentions the fact that there are very few Norwegian text adventures known. As I read this, I realized in horror that I have had fully working TADS libraries on my hard drive since at least 2003 (or maybe even 2001), and I haven't shared them with anyone!
So, here they are. No rights reserved, except as mandated by the TADS licence.
They are based on the libraries for TADS version 2.5.5, so they are a little bit outdated. That's the downside of translating these things. But I have tested them with version 2.5.8 on Linux, and my little test game compiled nicely (except for a few warnings that seemed to make no difference).
I hope there will be many many Norwegian TADS games in the coming years, to make up for my sin of not releasing this right away.
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