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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:56 am
by Strident
As mentioned here...
https://archive.org/details/Atari-Magaz ... /page/n75/

...which points out that the game uses the rather unusual input method of NOUN VERB!

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:14 am
by www.atarimania.com

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:54 am
by Strident
Mark talks about 'Guardian' in New Atari User here...
https://archive.org/details/Page6-65-Dec93/page/38/mode

I think this is the current placeholder for that game...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C17 ... nture.html

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 1:47 pm
by Garry
Guardian has an interesting history. From the meagre snippets I've been able to find, and a degree of conjecture, it sounds like it was originally written in Atari BASIC by Mark Stinson as 'Guardian' in 1992, submitted to New Atari User and rejected. This was probably unpublished.

It was then modified by Paul Hampshire (with the author's permission) as 'Guardian of the Sacred Sword' in 1992 and released by A.U.R.A. as a public domain game. This has multiple files including a documentation file, a title screen, modified font and upper case room descriptions and nicely coloured blue screen.

It was then compiled by John E and Spite Ripsoft (two of the main characters behind A.U.R.A.) and released as 'Guardian Adventure' in 1992. This has a single AUTORUN.SYS file, lower case room descriptions and default GRAPHICS 0 screen colours. This is the version in the CASA entry linked above.

In view of the above, I think that the title for the existing entry should be changed to 'Guardian of the Sacred Sword' and some explanatory notes added. I'll send some screen grabs of both versions.

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:08 am
by www.atarimania.com
Good catch, I completely missed the compiled version of the game. Was this originally available on a particular disk or just on its own as an executable file?

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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:09 am
by Garry
I have no idea where I got it, so I couldn't say.

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:05 am
by www.atarimania.com
Found out that The Hyams Adventure was published as a disk bonus in issue 52 of New Atari User dated October / November 1991.

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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:27 am
by www.atarimania.com
Three unknown games by OFA advertized in volume 6, issue 2 of Computer Shopper dated February 1986 but not 100% sure they're text adventures:
https://archive.org/details/computer-sh ... 7/mode/1up (Atari 8-bit)
https://archive.org/details/computer-sh ... 8/mode/1up (Commodore 64)

The programs should be from 1985 as the publisher ran the same ad in the January 1986 issue of the magazine (not scanned yet).

There may well be some adventures for other systems listed in the classifieds, I didn't check.

Will have something REALLY cool available soon so stay tuned...

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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:11 pm
by www.atarimania.com
New prototype discovered!

Read all about it here!

Check this post as well.

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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:54 pm
by www.atarimania.com

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:08 pm
by Garry
Do you know if there's a scan of Compy-Shop Magazine?

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:23 am
by www.atarimania.com
As far as I know, Compy-Shop Magazin (no "e") was only released as a disk magazine.

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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:33 pm
by Garry
Ah, of course. I've got it.

As Die Schatulle is only short, I translated it to English as The Casket. In the process of doing so, I can see that it is absolutely awful. Amateurish, inefficient code, no parser, no world model, buggy, cruel and guess-the-verb. Nevertheless...

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 2:42 pm
by www.atarimania.com
Not super heavy stuff but just discovered a conversion of Lost Dutchman's Gold:
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-40 ... 42093.html

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Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:42 pm
by Garry
Not another one. Probably a first for the Atari, though. I'm pretty sure I ported the Apple II version from Byte to the Atari in the dim, distant past, but that's probably lost to the mists of time. I've still got extensive notes on it.

Interestingly, the porter chose to use the Jyym Pearson look and feel. That was a strange choice.

The publisher is HACE. I'm presuming this is H--- Atari Computer Enthusiasts. Any idea what the "H" stands for?