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June 7th, 2009
It's time for another update, with no less than 34 new solutions, as well as hints and maps.
As always, I'm way behind the times here, but if it has slipped below anyone's radar, there's a highly useful project out there called Parchment, which runs Inform games via your browser and some nifty Javascript coding. This eliminates the need for installing an interpreter and lets you play dozens of Inform games, no matter where you are. Clever.
And while we're at the online games, The Greedy Dwarf has been offline for ages, but Simon Ainsworth has kindly agreed to revive the project.
I've received a number of emails regarding missing maps. Unfortunately it seems that those maps have gone the way of the dodo. I'll try to replace them, but for the time being, I've simply removed the links in question. I've lowered the map count accordingly. Sigh.
Finally, and as always, thanks to all you busy little bees out there! I can see that Barrie M. Eaton's games have been in high demand lately.
- New solutions: Dollars in the Dust (Doreen Bardon), Dome Trooper (Terri Sheehan, DB), Dragon and the Troll (DB), Espejos (Juan Duc), Exchange (TS), Goblin Crusher (TS, DB), Gone Missin' (TS), Ice Guardian (TS), Jolly Poppa Down (DB), Kingdom of Zaar (DB), Lantern of D'Gamma (JD, Angus), A Message From Deep Space (Alastair Shewan), Minette (TS), Moonbase 3 (TS), Moonscape - Escape From the Moon (TS), Orifice From Outer Space (TS), Pon Una Tarantula en Tu Vida (JD), Pyramid Adventure (DB), QA! (JD, Phil Jackson), Quad-X (TS), Quad-X 2 (TS), Qor (DB), Rochn, la Era de las Espadas (JD), The Royal Quest (JD, DB, TS, David Lodge), Sir Arthur (DB), Solaris (DB), The Spiro Legacy (TS), Thor (JD, TS, DB), To Catch a Rainbow (DB), Treasure Island (RIchard Mace and others - external site), Unknown Planet (DB), Wakemare(TS), Wartorn Land (DB), Wizard Quest (DB)
- New hints: Dwarven Hero (TS), Exchange (TS), Ice Guardian (TS), Moonbase 3 (TS), Moonscape (TS), Orifice From Outer Space (TS), The Spiro Legacy (TS), Wakemare (TS), Wartorn Land (TS), Ziggarat of Dread (TS)
- New maps: Firelance (AS), A Message From Deep Space (AS), Phantasmagoria (myself), Rooms of the Lost Jewel (myself), Tass Times in Tonetown (myself)
- Emulators: MESS v0.131, CCS64
v3.7, BeebEm v4.02
March 11th, 2009
Once in a while, this site needs to earn the right to its title. Fortuntely,
a friend of mine, Morten Wittrock, has supplied scans for a 1980 (!) article in
Byte Magazine on Scott Adams and his Pirate Adventure, with full source code
included. It doesn't get much more classic than that! Boot up your trusty
TRS-80's and read the article here.
As for CASA's bread and butter, you've certainly been busy out there,
particularly Terri Sheehan and Doreen Bardon, whose output I still struggle to
keep up with. Thanks to all of you and keep typing! It's greatly appreciated,
hints, solutions and maps.
- New solutions: The Boyd File (Doreen Bardon),
Castle Adventure (DB), Crime Stopper (Juan Duc), Dracula's Castle (JD), Dwarven Hero (DB), Fantastic Adventure (DB), Fantasy Land (DB, Terri Sheehan), Gideon's Gamble (David Lodge), House of Secrets (JD), Island of Death (JD), The Kingdom of Spelldome (DB), The Lighthouse (DB), Lone Brave (Alastair Shewan, TS, DB), The Magic Sword (TS), Magnetic Moon (early version, TS), Marie Celeste (TS), Moonshards of Sacrimore (DB, TS), Murder Hunt II (TS), Revenge of Chaos (DB), Rings of Artek (DB), Save Your Sister (DB), Simply Magic (DB), Sound of Him (DB), Time Traveller (DB), Wizard, What Wizard? (TS)
- Updated: Crystal Caverns (bug fixes),
Meltdown (better solve, TS), Welladay (better solve, TS)
- New maps: Castle Adventure
(Amby), Crystal Caverns 1, 2 (Amby), The Island (DL)
- New hints: The Boyd File (TS), By Right of Birth (TS), The Dream Concert (TS), Fantasy Land (DB, TS), Lone Brave (TS), Magnetic Moon (TS), Malice in Blunderland (TS), Marie Celeste (TS), Marie Celeste Adventure (TS), Meltdown (TS), Moonquake (TS), Moonshards of Sacrimore (TS).
Murder (TS), The Nameless One (TS), Protect and Survive (TS), Revenge of the Space
Pirates(TS), Secrets of Ur (TS),
Welladay (TS), Where Is Zeus (TS)
- New emulators: MESS v0.130, VICE v2.1
February 12th, 2009
- New solutions: Big Top (Terri Sheehan), Die You Vicious Fish (TS, Doreen
Bardon, David Lodge), Caves of Bewbews
(TS), Caves of Darkness (TS, DL), Danger! Adventurer at Work! 2 (TS), The Island (DL), Time Traveller 2 (DB), Time Traveller 3 (DB), The Weirdstone (DL), The
Well (DL)
- New maps: The Weirdstone (DL)
- New hints: Danger! Adventurer at
Work! 2 (TS)
- Notes added for: The Assassin's Guild, City of Shadows, The Weirdstone
(Phillip L. Ramsay)
February 4th, 2009
Hey, look - it's already 2009! Yes, I know, I'm a little late to the party.
But better late than never. Two of the long-standing requests, Logan and The Pain, have been solved and
submitted to the archive. That's terrific news. Please let me know if anyone
out there has any of the other requested solutions.
Secondly, a nice chap named Wayne is the webmaster of a new site called Adventure Point.
The site has information on well over 1,200 adventure games, both text and
graphic ones. The site looks promising indeed, and Wayne has obviously put a
lot of work into it. Do check it out.
Finally, Martijn from World of Spectrum has kindly informed me that his site
now covers more than 2,000 text adventures, rather than the measly 1,500 stated
on CASA, and could I please update my records? Well, that's the kind of error
I'm more than happy to correct!
As always, thanks to all contributors. Until the next update, happy gaming!
- New solutions: Adult 1 (David Lodge), Adult 2 (DL), The Adventures of
Zebedee Gonig (Terri Sheehan / DL), De Antagonisten (Alex Dijkstra), The
Black Fountain (Juan Duc), City of Ehdollah (TS), Colditz Adventure (DL),
The Curse of the Pharaoh (JD), Lightmare (TS), Logan (Mark Keiter), The
Mines of Lithiad (JD), The Pain (AD), Sherwood Forest (JD), Star Wars (JD),
Theseus and the Minotaur (JD), The Treasures of Barboz (JD)
- New maps: Adult 1 (DL), Adult 2 (DL), The Adventures of Zebedee Gonig (DL), Colditz Adventure (DL), Logan (MK), Seven Lost Gnomes (DL)
- New hints: The Adventures of Zebedee Gonig (TS), City of Ehdollah (TS),
Sphinx Adventure (official sheet, retyped by DL)
- New emulators: MESS v0.129, SPIN v0.666