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by Garry
Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:10 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Garry. I don't think CASA has a GitLab or GitHub site.
by Garry
Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:36 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures


Great stuff. I think I've added all your screenshots now.


More screen shots to follow shortly. (I've done all the Dotsoft games, but I need to do a little more work on these before I can release them.)


I've noticed quite a few adventures (such as the Young 'Uns) in that Google Drive link ...
by Garry
Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:02 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

The recovery effort is going well. I'll post an update somewhere soon. In the meantime, I have a mystery related to the text adventures published by Software Concepts. I have been able to recover 'Pyramids of Mars'. This is adventure #2. The game starts by saying "Look out for adventure #3 AFRICAN ...
by Garry
Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:52 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Not sure about the Facebook one. He sounds like a kiwi. I presume that ours is an Aussie.
by Garry
Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:52 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Time for an update.

I now have quite a range of tools to help with the conversion of SC-3000 files to different formats. Fabio Dalla Libera has been extremely helpul and has been updating his Python scripts as I find issues and adding extra features. I'm extremely grateful to him.

Fabio also put ...
by Garry
Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:20 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures


I made a tape from the type-in program The Land of Sorcery.

That's great! It saves me typing it in. I was going to suggest that it is a very simple game with single-character input and more RPG than adventure, so doesn't deserve a place on CASA.

Just out of curiosity, where did you find the ...
by Garry
Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:37 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

If it is, then that would confirm the spelling of his name. I've seen it as D van Kan, D Van Kan and D VanKan. The latter is the more common spelling on the SC-3000 sites.
by Garry
Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:27 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Strident wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:07 am Enterprise Escape is actually just Bob Retelle's Trek Adventure
Good to know. I checked the others, but I only checked Enterprise Adventure against the TRS-80 magazine listings.
by Garry
Wed Sep 01, 2021 2:15 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Zipped disk images are attached below. Download and unzip the ones you want.

In blueMSX, choose Options > Emulation .
For MSX machine, select SEGA - SF-7000 , as this is required for disk support.
Click OK .
Choose File > Disk Drive A > Insert .
Navigate to your sf7 disk file image, select it and ...
by Garry
Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:32 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

I just had a quick look and both games look quite different to anything with similar titles. I'll try and give them a play over the next few days.

Incidentally, there is no such game as 'Save Our Ship'. That's the title of the magazine article, not the title of the game. It's actually called 'Star ...
by Garry
Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:54 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

More good finds. I don't know how you do it. It sounds like Pyramids of Mars is a text adventure. There's a good chance that this is a port of one of the other games with a similar title, but we won't know for sure until we can find a copy.


Crusader... from the same advert... Probably not an ...
by Garry
Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:44 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

After much skullduggery, I've managed to get three of the Grandstand Leisure titles onto disk. This means you can play them on blueMSX, which is far better than struggling with MAME. The three titles are: Death Satellite, Enterprise Escape and Mars Adventurer. I'll send some screen grabs shortly.

I ...
by Garry
Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:07 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Good work. I'll try to do some screen grabs when I can get MAME to behave and extra details as they come to hand.

Two that you're missing are 'Alien' and 'Case of the Mad Mummy' from Dotsoft. Annoyingly, some of the Dotsoft games go by different names on different platforms under different ...
by Garry
Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:08 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: New Zealand Adventures
Replies: 5
Views: 1812

Re: New Zealand Adventures

There's a reference to 'Robots on Terminus IV' in the the Adventure Helpline in Computer & Video Games, issue 34, August 1984, p. 138.
by Garry
Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:54 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: New Zealand Adventures
Replies: 5
Views: 1812

Re: New Zealand Adventures

I found a ZX-81 snapshot of Robots on Terminal IV at http://bukstergames.bizhat.com/. This is definitely a text adventure. It's a bit difficult to play because you need to press the dot key for a space and the keyboard appears to be partially crippled, e.g. no backspace.