Quest [Roger Chaffee]
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:51 am
Following up from a comment on Jason Dyer's blog (https://bluerenga.blog/2024/11/26/1982- ... ent-102310) I notice that we have various unofficial ports of Roger Chaffee's 1978 game Quest listed as separate entries in the database.
I'll be going through and at least linking the extra entries back to Roger's original Quest. At this point, it may be less confusing to keep them as separate entries but the versions will be summarised on the main page.
Roger's Quest
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C5078/Quest.html
[in German] https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C6007/Quest.html
[in Italian] https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9235/Quest.html
Caves of Silver
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2 ... ilver.html [credited to Mark William in the ComputerMat adverts, but like his other title on that adventure compilation, seems to be just a tweak of someone else's code]
Pirate's Treasure
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9 ... asure.html [a graphical version for the TRS-80 Co-Co]
There is also a DOS version, which is a port of the TRS-80 CoCo release, that was seemingly well-known back in the day, commonly referred to as PIRATE.
The credits in that version say:
I'll be going through and at least linking the extra entries back to Roger's original Quest. At this point, it may be less confusing to keep them as separate entries but the versions will be summarised on the main page.
Roger's Quest
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C5078/Quest.html
[in German] https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C6007/Quest.html
[in Italian] https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9235/Quest.html
Caves of Silver
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2 ... ilver.html [credited to Mark William in the ComputerMat adverts, but like his other title on that adventure compilation, seems to be just a tweak of someone else's code]
Pirate's Treasure
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9 ... asure.html [a graphical version for the TRS-80 Co-Co]
There is also a DOS version, which is a port of the TRS-80 CoCo release, that was seemingly well-known back in the day, commonly referred to as PIRATE.
The credits in that version say:
Original program by Lee Dusbabek for the famous Skip Hanson (WB6YMH)
Published in the July 1979 Byte Magazine
Converted to the TRS-80 Color Computer and graphics added by A. Nany Muss No credit was given in the above program to the original author. Transfered to the IBM-PC by Mark Granger: December 1984
This program is public domain and should stay that way!