A musical text adventure about an Elf's efforts to help Santa save Christmas when the North Pole is fogged in.
his game has been through many incarnations. The first (known as 'Elves') was written by Bruce MacKay and Marlene Abriel using the original version of AdvSys. This was intended to be released in time for Christmas 1986, but AdvSys limitations prevented this from happening and the game almost died.
AdvSys version 1.2 and a new customised runtime interpreter enabled the first formal release of 'Elves '87' in August 1987 for the Atari ST.
Some years later, David Malmberg ported the game to AGT as 'The Elf's Adventure' version 1.0. This was subsequently updated as 'The Elf's Christmas Adventure' version 2.0. This version included music.
All versions differed in some way, but all were subtitled 'God Bless Frosty the Snowman'.
The game's history is well documented in the original readme files and on a couple of web sites.
Bruce MacKay, one of the authors of the original game, writes:
"Elf's Adventure was originally titled "Elves'87". Marlene and I wrote it in ADVSYS just in time for Christmas 1987. It had no sound or music - in fact I was rather shocked (horrified?) to see a musical version posted. We wrote it on the Atari ST 1040 so we embed some VT52 commands which weren't very cross-platform friendly. It did work in a version of Advsys that we hacked up a bit to run in Citadel BBS however, which was our primary goal at the time. It was all very campy and although it took it many hours, it was all for fun and very tongue in cheek." Source: AtariLegend.com
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I have this game running in ADVSYS under DOSBox-X. Screen shot attached.
Unfortunately this is another badly spelled effort. How difficult is it to spell check something? It is quite amazing how many people just can't be bothered. If a job's worth doing it's worth doing well.