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Lisa the Painful is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game (RPG) that was invented by Dingaling Production now LoveBrad Games based in the United States. Understanding and enjoying the game is vital to Lisa’s background story. She is an adopted kid who is abused and gets lost after she runs away from her troubles. The foster Father, Brad Armstrong tries to look for his buddy (Lisa) through an apocalyptic wasteland facing several challenges, people and queer monsters.

The game precedes its prequal called Lisa The First that was released in 2012 as freeware. The previous version had poor controls though still hilarious. The 2014 Lisa is two-dimensional and the graphics are pixelated which I don’t understand because it brings out some sense fun during a time when gamers have grown accustomed to high definition realistic graphics in games. Maybe, it's just the comic setup of the game that makes you forget about the 2D pixelated form.

Lisa the Painful Gameplay

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Before I even begin to talk about the game, I must warn you that despite the comic theme and it being a RPG, the game is quite silly. Just the title “Lisa the Painful” suggests that there is some quirkiness to the game. Loading the game introduces you to a world full of survival tactics, sacrifice, and the occasional pervert which is something unusual to say.

Lisa: The Painful RPG (stylized as LISA the painful RPG) is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed and published by American indie studio Dingaling Productions (now known as LoveBrad Games). The game was written, designed, and composed by Austin Jorgensen, and was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux on 15 December 2014. In Lisa, the player controls Brad. Includes 3 items: LISA the Joyful, LISA: Original Soundtrack + Art Collection, LISA: The Painful.

Throughout the game, you are forced to make choices that will impact on your character. As you traverse the wasteland and meet the queers, you are forced to save your friends on several occasions by making sacrifices. Sacrifices may involve chopping off your limbs. That's right, chop off your limbs to keep your party members alive or taking a beating or doing something inhuman for them to escape death.

The game takes away the heredity of societal norms that we have gotten used to and comically introduce us to an apocalyptic world that knows no order. While you play the game, you are treated to numerous features such as the occasional character sacrifices visual by the scratches, limb and eye removal. You are given a chance for recruiting a maximum of 30 party members in camps and towns who could help you achieve certain tasks which can be fun. For instance, the white-knuckle shopping cart races. Quite inhuman is expending party members you had earned through a Russian roulette for a huge profit gain.

I must say the game is filled with unique aspects of entertainment and would be a game that I would consider playing every day just to be happy. The different scenes in the game will help you remain hooked to the game and not feel bored. If your spirits are down, then the game is a better solution to boost your mood.

However, I must warn you that the game is full of mature content and wouldn’t be advisable for the younger age.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• The game is full of entertainment
• The game is comic, therefore, has a lot of fun
• The game is not really about the mission of connecting with a buddy but all about fun

Cons:

• Its pixelated form may not appeal to a contingent of players.

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• A CPU board containing a 68000 clocked at 5Mhz (due to memory access issues,) a proprietary MMU, and a video state ROM which is really a hard to access chip containing only the serial number of the machine!
• An I/O card containing 2 VIA 6522 chips for the Parallel port and access to the COPS 421 microcontroller to controll the keyboard and the mouse, as well as the soft power switch. (In the Mac, the mouse is software driven.) Additionally, the I/O board also has a 6504 CPU with it's own ROM to drive the floppies/twiggy drive. On older Lisa's there's also a socket for an Amd 9520 Math Co-Processor.
• Up to two memory boards
• Up to three expansion port slots i.e. dual parallel port cards for access to Profile drives

To make things even more complex, there are special memory addresses that turn on or shut off various flip flops. For example a memory parity error detector, a video scan line interrupt, and the MMU. The VIA's are not identical in access. One lives in offset of two bytes, the other in an offset of 4 bytes. The 6504's 1024 bytes of memory is battery backed up (this is what the four NiCAD AA's on the I/O board are for.) The 6504's address space is available to the 68000, but in two byte skips as opposed to linearly. That is memory addresses 0,1,2,3 on the 6504 are 1,3,5,7 on the 68000.

The video circuitry is fairly simple - a dumb frame buffer that shares its memory with the Lisa's memory space. As such another memory area register can be changed to 'page' through the various memory areas.

Luckily, unlike the Mac, the Lisa's (68000) ROM isn't used for much except the POST (Power On Self Test) and booting. Though it is possible for a Lisa Operating system to access the ROM, the functions it would call are limited to reading blocks off the floppy or Profile.

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Yes, the Lisa does support at least three operating systems: Lisa 7/7, MacWorks (which with a bit of hardware an RAM can run upto System 7.5), and Microsoft Xenix (yes, Microsoft Xenix, not SCO: This was before Microsoft spun SCO off!) I've read on other web pages that there was a port of CP/M to the Lisa CP/M 68, but I don't have that OS. I've also seen one refrence to something called UniPlus which is supposedly a Unix SRV implementation. DTC mentioned that this later might have become A/UX... Though I'm not 100% sure, it's likely that either www.unipress.com or www.uniplus.com is the author.

As to how I got started on the project: I went on the web and searched for Lisa and Emulator and found many web pages related to the Lisa. I eventually came across one that mentioned that David T. Craig had lots and lots of Lisa documentation, and so I contacted him. He's been an invaluable resource... This project would have been close to impossible without his Docs. I just wish more people took his example and saved any technical internal docs about hardware they may have. I wish to write a Xerox Star and/or Altos emulator, but I just can't find enough detailed docs!

Actually, the emulator works and IS available for download, at the downloads page!

Here lies obsolete project documentation, which you'd have to be insane to believe.

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Local Mirrors of dead Lisa Sites

• Mirror of simon@atomicnet.com.au Circa Jan 1999
• Partial Mirror of Desie Hay's (desieh@southcom.com.au) Site Circa Nov 1998

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Live Lisa (or Lisa Related) Sites

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Lisa The Painful Guide

• A ProFile EmulatorHardware ProFile Emulator that attaches to an IDE drive - note this is to port 8000 incase your firewall blocks outgoing connections.
• History of Computer Design: Apple LisaA page about computer Designs.
• The Pirates of Silicon Valley A TNT Movie about Steve Jobs VS Bill Gates - Aired June 20th, 1999 @ 8:00pm. Will play again Mon Jun21 @ 11pm, Wed Jun23 @ 8:00pm, Sat Jun26 @ 6:00pm EST, Sun Jun27 @ 2:00pm and 10:30pm.
• Justin Maynard's Lisa Page - A few pix and a story.
• Owen Ink: The Mac Bathroom Reader contains a chapter on the Lisa... No longer there. :(
• The Dustbin - Lisa Page - A small one paragraph page... more to come later?
• Binary Dinosaurs - Apple Lisa Page - Adrian Graham's Museum..
• The Computing Museum's - Lisa Page - Description and links..
• The Apple Renaissance - A very nicely done history time line!
• Mesa Menagerie - Creepy Demise of Technology - very brief
• Museo AppleA Brazilian(?) page about Apple history with a Lisa section.
• Number Crunchers German page about Apple History.
• Siliciam - Le musée de l'informatiqueA French Computer Museum page
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• Doug Coward's Museum of Personal Computing MachineryPicture and a bit of text.
• Whatever happened to the Lisa? Article by John C. Dvorak. at Jaghouse
• Failure As Driving Force Great article! Lots of Lisa and Xerox PARC mentions.
• Mail and Guardian: An insanely great ride through the Apple core. by Jack Schofield's
• Net Guide to Computing A brief Lisa Article.
• Mining Co Article: Happy 15th Birthday Macintosh!
• Kiosks Protecting User Interfaces, not as easy as 123!!
• Hitchhiking from CP/M to ProDOS to MacOS to SunOS and Back (In Only Fourteen Days) Mentions Lisa.
• Terak Workstation The connection between the Terak and the Lisa
• Byte: 20 Spectacular Failures One Paragraph on the Lisa
• Great Microprocessors of the Past Mentions the Lisa
• Microsoft Hall of Innovation Article mentions things borrowed from the Lisa
• MacKido Contributions Article Mentions who contributed what for Mac/Apple
• LisaWorks Project - They're going to be working on the project with me. Nothing yet, but they'll likely port it to MacOS.
• Apple II HistoryIncludes a mention of the Lisa and the Apple ///
• History of Home Computers Brief Lisa page
• Benchmarks for various computers. Note the entries for the Lisa. One indicates a System 5 OS called UniPlus... Anyone have any clue where to get this from?
• Archaic Apples WEB site. - Has BOOT ROM sources and other stuff - (like who doesn't these days?) :)
• Justin Maynard's Site. Some info and pictures about the Lisa.
• Computer History Timeline Lisa is mentioned.
• Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia EncyclopediaAnother timeline
• NC Company Profiles Mention of a company that made plotter drivers for the Lisa...
• Languages for the Apple2Several mentions.
• CLI vs GUI A Paper by J. Luhman mentioning various User Interfaces and the Lisa.
• Steve Jobs - A Manager Paper on Jobs and the Lisa.
• Memorial A Memorial Page to various Computers - Lisa included.
• OS Development PaperDoes mention the Lisa
• Apple's Lisa Specs The video info is wrong, it's 720x384!.

Broken Links:



• UNM's Apple Hardware (scroll down to Lisa entries) -- Is this still alive?
• UNM again - but telling it to search for Lisa for you -- Is this still alive?