It's possibly going to be a TRS-80 CoCo title then. Or the author has misremembered the source... It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
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- Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:09 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Appleton/The Village... Original source?
- Replies: 6
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Re: Appleton/The Village... Original source?
Thanks for looking.
It's possibly going to be a TRS-80 CoCo title then. Or the author has misremembered the source... It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
It's possibly going to be a TRS-80 CoCo title then. Or the author has misremembered the source... It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:55 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Appleton/The Village... Original source?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2955
Appleton/The Village... Original source?
The Walter Pooley Quilled game, Appleton...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C779/Appleton%2C+The.html
...has an comment in the database originating from the WOS archive, namely...
"According to the author, this was a remake of an older Dragon game. It was never officially released."
I've ...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C779/Appleton%2C+The.html
...has an comment in the database originating from the WOS archive, namely...
"According to the author, this was a remake of an older Dragon game. It was never officially released."
I've ...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:05 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4731
Re: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
Ah, I thought the Quill C64 version was the first version of the game (on gamebase64.com the release date is 198?).
Late 1980s/early 1990s homegrown text adventures for the C64 are not accurately recorded on sites like gamebase64.
The Spectrum PAWed versions of Jack's games are the definitive ...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:12 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4731
Re: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
It'll be down to memory limitations.
The original River games were developed using the Quill on both the Spectrum and the C64. After the first year or so, all the old games (except the graphical Lifeboat) were ported to the PAW on the Spectrum, often getting expanded in the process with extra ...
The original River games were developed using the Quill on both the Spectrum and the C64. After the first year or so, all the old games (except the graphical Lifeboat) were ported to the PAW on the Spectrum, often getting expanded in the process with extra ...
- Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:05 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4731
Re: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
I can't see your images.
That's a shame. I wonder why that is.
I would suggest just using the existing message, "You can't make out what they say!"
(You could, of course, borrow the more verbose lines from the Spectrum version as memory presumably isn't an issue in the version that you're ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:57 pm
- Forum: The modern era
- Topic: ADRIFT platforms
- Replies: 35
- Views: 84534
Re: ADRIFT platforms
Is there actually anyone who has the motivation to make the PC changes, before changes in the categories are made?
1. I update all PC entries predating 199x to have MS-DOS as their platform directly in the database (Windows 3 was published in 1990), so games released prior to 1990 should be a ...
1. I update all PC entries predating 199x to have MS-DOS as their platform directly in the database (Windows 3 was published in 1990), so games released prior to 1990 should be a ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:46 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4731
Re: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
Only just managed to download the C64 version... Chrome has managed to drop support for the FTP links that GB64 uses. Grr.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that there should be UDGs printed when you try to read the runes without the correct glasses... That certainly would've been what Jack intended... Either ...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that there should be UDGs printed when you try to read the runes without the correct glasses... That certainly would've been what Jack intended... Either ...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:38 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4731
Re: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
This is due to an error in Dorothy Millard's solution: in the place ROSE BUSHES, you should WEAR SPECS which allows to exchange the two objects.
There may be a problem in the game with EXAMINE and READ. When you EXAMINE the runes without the right specs it says: "You can't make out what they say ...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:59 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4731
Re: The Dark Tower by Jack A. Lockerby
Quill performs a little differently than PAW, in that you don't generally necessarily have include a PRESENT check before a GET because it fails or succeeds in a slightly different manner.
I'm just popping out now but I'll take a closer look later. It's perfectly possible that there might be a ...
I'm just popping out now but I'll take a closer look later. It's perfectly possible that there might be a ...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:53 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: 8bitAG.com/info
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13851
Re: 8bitAG.com/info
I've recently added a profile of Jack Lockerby and River Software...
http://8bitag.com/info/river.html
http://8bitag.com/info/river.html
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 2:15 pm
- Forum: The modern era
- Topic: ADRIFT platforms
- Replies: 35
- Views: 84534
Re: ADRIFT platforms
Is there any reason you don't want to add "Browser" as a platform for ADRIFT games that are playable online?
My only slight reluctance to include browser as a platform for ADRIFT games would be their reliance on the availability of Webrunner on the Adrift website... which historically has ...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:05 am
- Forum: The modern era
- Topic: ADRIFT platforms
- Replies: 35
- Views: 84534
Re: ADRIFT platforms
The notes section is probably the best place to mention the flavour of Adrift needed, and also whether it plays in a browser.
The lack of granularity in the "PC" platform can be a little irksome... especially as this is a "classic" adventure site covering a period where that moniker was so vague ...
The lack of granularity in the "PC" platform can be a little irksome... especially as this is a "classic" adventure site covering a period where that moniker was so vague ...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:20 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
EDIT2: I'm guessing that it is a version of Borgan Castle/Castle of Desolation...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C3991/Curse+of+Borgan+Castle%2C+The.html
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C7174/Castle+of+Desolation%2C+The.html
Actually, looking at the map that's on the VIC-20 site ...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:28 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
This one doesn't seem to be in our database at the moment...
The House on Misty Hill
from Games Computing #7, page 51 - 56
http://www.flaxcottage.com/GamesComputing/8407.pdf
Originally for the ZX Spectrum
It's been typed-in and adapted for the Vic-20, see...
http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail ...
The House on Misty Hill
from Games Computing #7, page 51 - 56
http://www.flaxcottage.com/GamesComputing/8407.pdf
Originally for the ZX Spectrum
It's been typed-in and adapted for the Vic-20, see...
http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail ...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
Csabo has just sent in a solution/screenshot of the C16/Plus Steve W. Lucas game Escape from Airia, which appeared in Home Computer Weekly, and is a version of the existing game in the database Escape from Alpha Centuri...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C8256/Escape+from+Alpha+Centuri.html ...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C8256/Escape+from+Alpha+Centuri.html ...