Digitaya

Orbis Publishing Ltd 1984

Language:: English
Systems:: BASIC
Platforms:: BBC/Electron , C64/128 , Spectrum
Genres:: Type-in
Entered by:: Alex, iamaran, Strident
Added:: 19-08-2013
Edited:: 22-11-2021

Synopsis

Plot

As the machine hums quietly, you look around. To the north and south stretches a wide highway. Your mission is to find the mysterious Digitaya and carry it to safety through one of the output ports… but which one?

Notes

Printed as a type-in in the weekly partwork Home Computer Advanced Course by Orbis Publishing Ltd, from 1984 and 1985.

The listings for Digitaya were published alongside those of Haunted Forest see: pp.766-768 (issue 39), pp.792-793 (issue 40), pp.813-815 (issue 41), pp.826-828 (issue 42), pp.846-848 (issue 43), pp.866-868 (issue 44), p.885 (issue 45), pp.904-905 (issue 46), pp.932-933 (issue 47), pp.952-953 (issue 48) and p.968 (issue 49). The complete listing is in issue 51, pp. 1017-1020.

The base version of the program was for C64, but changes were given for Spectrum and BBC Micro.

The game has been unofficially adapted for QL.

The game has been ported to TRS-80 MC-10 by Jim Gerrie; download here.

The original game is also available in French.

There is also a version for the VZ200.