Let's Compute 1991

Aka:

We're off on the road to Adventure

Language:

English

Systems:

BASIC

Platforms:

Amiga, Archimedes , BBC/Electron , PC , TRS-80 MC-10/Matra Alice

Genres:

Type-in

Entered by:

jgerrie, Strident

Added:

03-11-2024

Synopsis

Notes

This adventure appeared as part of a adventure writing tutorial in five issues of Let's Compute magazine, March-July 1991. The game functions but its puzzles were not completed. There was going to be another article in the series (at least one more) but the magazine was cancelled after issue 12.

The existing articles can be viewed on archive.org; part one, part two, part three, part four and part five.

In 2024 Jim Gerrie produced a completed version of the game: "I completed the story as best I could from the item layout provided in the existing source code and hints in the attendant articles. I have also added a title page. It's a simple space adventure with a few tricky puzzles and only a few possibilities for insta-death. It also has some very efficient and flexible parsing tools and systems that were meant to applied easily to the creation of other adventures. It is really a BASIC adventure creation engine. No specific author is identified in the articles. The version I made is for the TRS-80 MC-10, but the article claims the program should work with only a few minor changes on the BBC, Archimedes, Amiga and PC (GW-Basic), but that it will not work on the C64/128 or Spectrum."

Jim's version can be downloaded through his website.

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Further Info:

• Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
• Search at JIm Gerrie's TRS-80 MC-10 ports
• Search at Lemon Amiga
• Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History

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