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by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:32 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Workman & Associates Adventure "editor"
Replies: 5
Views: 2537

Re: Workman & Associates Adventure "editor"

$97.50!!!
by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:30 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Workman & Associates Adventure "editor"
Replies: 5
Views: 2537

Re: Workman & Associates Adventure "editor"

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by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Workman & Associates Adventure "editor"
Replies: 5
Views: 2537

Workman & Associates Adventure "editor"

Randomly looking at Dynacomp's entries in a Kaypro catalogue and noticed Workman & Associates "editor" for their 1980 CP/M version of Adventure.

Not something I've researched in the past, but it is mentioned in Byte Magazine (November 1981).

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by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:04 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dynacomp Adventures
Replies: 7
Views: 2477

Re: Dynacomp Adventures

I guess, Europe had its hoards of micros, but North America had hoards of CP/M machines.

Seems like Dynacomp also supported the Kaypro II, 4 and 10, which were Z80 CP/M machines...
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by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:39 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Replies: 11
Views: 11542

Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures

Alex wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:07 pm Part 1 is fine. I only noticed one small bug where you can't return to a certain location although the room description says you can, but that was no problem for solving the game.

I've uploaded a map and a solution.
Good to hear... probably better than the author's previous adventure, then. :)
by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:35 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dynacomp Adventures
Replies: 7
Views: 2477

Re: Dynacomp Adventures

North Star was a new name to me, also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_Computers
by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:30 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dynacomp Adventures
Replies: 7
Views: 2477

Re: Dynacomp Adventures

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by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:29 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dynacomp Adventures
Replies: 7
Views: 2477

Re: Dynacomp Adventures

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by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:18 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dynacomp Adventures
Replies: 7
Views: 2477

Dynacomp Adventures

Following on from a post in the Recovered Adventures thread, I'm just posting these Dynacomp catalogues for further investigation, as I think there are some unlisted/unknown text adventures in them that need further investigating...

Catalog No. 30
https://archive.org/details/DynacompCatalogNo30 ...
by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:01 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Recovered Adventures
Replies: 31
Views: 57936

Re: Recovered Adventures


Zodiac Castle / Adventure at Zodiac Castle
Written by Dennis N. Strong and distributed by Dynacomp in 1982

Interestingly, a Dynacomp catalogue mentions that this game has the same layout as another one, The Windmere Estate Adventure, so that's another unknown Apple adventure for the database ...
by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:35 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Recovered Adventures
Replies: 31
Views: 57936

Re: Recovered Adventures

This one, again by 4am for the Apple II was not in our database...

Zodiac Castle / Adventure at Zodiac Castle
Written by Dennis N. Strong and distributed by Dynacomp in 1982
https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Zodiac_Castle

Welcome to the Kingdom of Zodiac. It is a small, but very interesting ...
by Strident
Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:28 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Recovered Adventures
Replies: 31
Views: 57936

Recovered Adventures

As archivists are recovering lost (or even unknown) versions of classic adventures all the time, I thought I'd start to log them here as, although we do tend to update the game's pages on CASA to mention it, new "finds" can be easy to miss.

To start off, I spotted this one on Twitter, by prolific ...
by Strident
Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:02 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Replies: 11
Views: 11542

Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures

The two-part* adventure The Wight Smugglers has now been recovered...
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... s-mia.html
*Only part one of the game is finished. Given part two is incomplete, part one may not have been play-tested; so player beware. :)
by Strident
Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:12 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: PlanetQuest / Doom Castle
Replies: 1
Views: 1271

PlanetQuest / Doom Castle

Just a note to say that I'll be removing the following entries from the database...

PlanetQuest
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C3256/PlanetQuest.html

Doom Castle
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2723/Doom+Castle.html

For reasons detailed here...
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by Strident
Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:49 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Let's Compute - Adventure Writing Tutorial
Replies: 2
Views: 1514

Re: Let's Compute - Adventure Writing Tutorial

Probably not! :) It just seems to be a very simple, wander around the spaceship type of game.