A straight port of the second book of the Fighting Fantasy line. While the first one (The Warlock of Firetop Mountain) was made into an action game, this one remains true to the source: The player tries to defeat the evil wizard Balthus Dire in CYOA style (with some RPG elements).
An unofficial port exists for the Microbee.
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This is basically as good as a port of a Fighting Fantasy book can be if it weren't for the extremely slow gameplay. What is the point of this slow typewriter style text appearing? Another big problem is inability to cheat the same way as common in the books, of course ;)