Solution for Gary Power's Terraform This is a text adventure for the ZX Spectrum, written mainly in Basic. In fact (shhh... we're not supposed to know this) it uses the system published in Peter Gerrard's Exploring Adventures book, with a bit of machine code to provide sound effects and to make the program crash if you try to break in. It's still essentially a Basic game, though, which means slowness and inflexibility. In particular, the game doesn't accept any capitals, and hardly any synonyms are provided for, not even "take" for "get" or "put" for "drop". Go west. Get foodpak, wear foodpak, eat segment. Whenever next you become in need of food, eat another segment. Get laser, mask and gaspod. East and south. Activate computer. Read whatever you like, then press 3. Go north, open hatch, go east, and west twice. Enter the equipment bay. Go west and get the rope. East five times and west. Shoot Skoron. From now on you may encounter a Skoron anywhere. If this happens near the rocks, go west and shoot him there; if somewhere else, just shoot him where he stands. (He can also appear when you're in trouble already. In that case, try and solve the other problem first, then shoot the Skoron; if this gets you killed, there is nothing to do but start over and hope the random numbers are more merciful this time.) Go east. Wear the mask. Tie the rope and climb down. Push the black button (it's on the gaspod) and drop the mask and gaspod. Go north; get the electropod and bottle. Go south. Drop the electropod, climb the rope, drop the bottle, and climb back down. Now get the electropod again, climb the rope, and retrieve the bottle. Also get the nitropod. Go south and shoot the cliff. Go west, fill the bottle, then go north four times. Spray the twines. Go north. Repeat this until you arrive at the "dense alien jungle" at the other side of the twines. Drop the nitropod there. (You will have automatically picked up a birthpod on the way. Don't waste a turn doing so yourself. Oh, and yes, it _is_ possible to discover where you should drop these pods, but I'm not telling you. Don't expect a walkthrough to reveal all the secrets and intricacies of a game!) Go south. Spray twines, south, repeat until you get through to the "strange forest". Drop the bottle. Go south twice and west twice, enter the equipment bay, west. Take the spacepak and bleep. Go east twice, south and west. Wait. Keep waiting until a stretch of sand is revealed. Go south twice. Drop the birthpod on the island. Wait until the stretch of sand reappears, then go north thrice to the rim of the crater. Wear the spacepak, then push the blue button (this one is on the pak). Go south and west. Drop the electropod here, then push the blue button again. Drop the spacepak. Go south, then east thrice. Enter Terraform 3. Get the box, then go east twice. Climb down. Go south twice and east. Drop the bleep. Pull the ring (which is on the box). Now wait here for rescue. I'm afraid it will be a lot of "wait" commands interspersed with "shoot skoron"s and "eat segment"s; we've been pretty efficient... Rescue will finally arrive on day 40. -- Richard Bos, September 2014