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by df
Thu Jun 20, 2024 4:43 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Scott Adams graphical adventures. S.A.G.A
Replies: 9
Views: 16870

Re: Scott Adams graphical adventures. S.A.G.A

I have vague memory and am probably wrong, but wasnt there SAGA+? I'm sure SAGA+ on the PC had a "4 word" parser, not quite full sentence, but hulk SAGA was purely verb/noun I'm probably wrong and its bad memories.

I know for sure, spiderman, F4, buckaroo + sorc were built on "sagaplus" but hulk ...
by df
Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:41 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Adventure Master
Replies: 18
Views: 13743

Re: Adventure Master

Strident wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:31 pm
Mario Moeller, author of Dracula, was another of your compatriot iirc.
Oh wow, thats a name I've not heard in a long time! I remember playing The Dare after reading about it in ACAR, I believe Mario co-wrote it with Dorothy.
by df
Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:05 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: C64 Mountain Valley
Replies: 35
Views: 30918

Re: C64 Mountain Valley

thats so weird, I just hit alt-8, select the gcs and autostart. I'm on vice 3.5 and use a warpspeed cartridge image and running the "sc" version of x64, I'm on linux.
by df
Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:13 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: C64 Mountain Valley
Replies: 35
Views: 30918

Re: C64 Mountain Valley

I never had any issue getting M&C working on my vice. I dont know why you are seeing an error.
by df
Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:04 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: C64 Mountain Valley
Replies: 35
Views: 30918

Re: C64 Mountain Valley

Garry wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:24 am Wow. It would be nice to get those unreleased games. Were they finished?
Im not sure how finished or not they are. I've mostly done mermaid + crown and got stuck and not sure if I am in an unwinnable position. I need (time lol!) to check the others and see what conditions they are in.
by df
Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:32 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: C64 Mountain Valley
Replies: 35
Views: 30918

Re: C64 Mountain Valley

I had some dates once I believe I had them from Australian Commodore Amiga Review (or once Australian Commodore Review).

I do have the unreleased games (someone was kind enough for give me access to them), Ravenswood, Mermaid & the Crown, Crypt, Ophir, Cranbury Manor

I think from memory, some of ...
by df
Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:44 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: C64 Mountain Valley
Replies: 35
Views: 30918

Re: C64 Mountain Valley

they are some of my fav c64 adventures with petscii graphics. I even made a whole 'shrine' to them on here but its not well know.

http://solutionarchive.com/Mvs/index.php

I wrote it late 90's... and Jacob was kind enough to host it when I stopped.
by df
Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:21 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Planet of Death
Replies: 12
Views: 8339

Re: Planet of Death

Interesting. I want to say the bottom right trilogy version was included in the C64 'ProPack' set one of my mates had. I think I had all those versions you showed except the Pain version. ProPack might have been an Sustralia only thing too. I dont know.
by df
Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:04 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Planet of Death
Replies: 12
Views: 8339

Re: Planet of Death

wow. blast from the past.

yes when I wrote this thread in 2012 I had 3+ versions for C64. I could have sworn but did not check that the blue/white was not quill/paw. it just played so badly, also it was so condensed that it really didnt need to be if it was quill/paw. anyway.

I dont know If I ...
by df
Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:11 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: CASA 20 years
Replies: 15
Views: 12290

Re: CASA 20 years

Heres to another 20 years mate! maybe we can find another Softgold/Mountain Valley Software adventure :)
by df
Wed May 03, 2017 12:49 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dorothy Millard
Replies: 5
Views: 5281

Re: Dorothy Millard

Dorothy was a great person, she was somewhat local to me (lived in the same city). I knew her through the Australian Commodore Amiga Review. I still have some of her letters here in my correspondance pile I've saved since I first started writing letters as a kid.

She made a few games too, two I ...
by df
Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:27 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Phipps/Toms system
Replies: 15
Views: 9843

Re: Phipps/Toms system

digging this up, I have Trevors article, I forget where i dug it up from, had it for ages, as gif files, so I pdf'd it up for you.

I think the timeline is more like
Scott Adams -> Ken -> Trevor + Artic -> Graham

http://mega-tokyo.com/zx81_trevor_toms.pdf

Ken's Practical Computing article in ...
by df
Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:52 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: New game from Ron Gilbert
Replies: 17
Views: 74014

Re: New game from Ron Gilbert

I dislike that large companies use it in effort to gauge interest instead of take a risk and believe in their own product.
by df
Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:04 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: New game from Ron Gilbert
Replies: 17
Views: 74014

Re: New game from Ron Gilbert

ha I have done a few boardgames too, Salmon Run, Great Fire of London, Lost Valley, Conquest of Sperros, and bunch of tabletop RPGs. I avoid botique software (I backed wasteland2/etc, but I am very wary of software backing)
by df
Sat Dec 27, 2014 1:39 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: New game from Ron Gilbert
Replies: 17
Views: 74014

Re: New game from Ron Gilbert

glad to see it funded. Ill probably pick it up once its out. I refuse to kickstart any software, too many overpromised failures.