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Games - Quill, The/AdventureWriter (848 results)

The Quill was created by Graeme Yeandle in 1983 and was published by Welsh software house Gilsoft. Various support programs were created over the years which added extra features; The Press, the Patch and the Illustrator. The Quill was the first in the "Gilsoft family" of adventure systems which includes the PAW, the SWAN, and DAAD.

Localised versions were published by Norace in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, all on one disc/tape.

In the USA, the tool was sold, under license, as AdventureWriter by the publisher CodeWriter who included their own graphics system. CodeWriter "grey imported" a French language version to Europe.

Gilsoft's Quill was available for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, BBC Micro & Acorn Electron, Sinclair QL, and Oric 1/Atmos. An Atari 800/XL version was developed but may not have been released.

CodeWriter's (US & French) version of the system was available for Commodore 64, Atari 800 and XL series computers with 48K, Apple II (II, II+, IIc) / Franklin Ace 1000, and IBM-PC (MS-DOS). The C64 and Apple/Franklin version had support for graphics.

Although The Quill only had a two-word parser, a special four-word version was created by Gilsoft for CRL to use in their Bugsy game; although the commercially released version does not seem to implement that feature. Support for four word inputs could be added to Spectrum games by the use of the third-party The Fix program that was marketed by Kelsoft.

In addition to the commercial games produced using the Quill, several games used the system as a prototyping/development tool (such as Dodgy Geezers and Terrormolinos).

There were also games released using (often uncredited) heavily-modified versions of the Quill such as Rigel's Revenge and The Serf's Tale. That particular hack of the Quill, produced by Smart Egg, was dubbed "The Ballpoint".

The Quill influenced many other adventure systems that followed it. It has also been unofficially ported to other platforms. For example, in the early 2000s Zeljko Juric produced an enhanced version for Texas Instruments (TI) programmable graphical calculators. There was an unofficial ZX81 version in development back in 2009/2010 together with a Windows-based editor.

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Title Publisher Year Language Documents
Lost Phirious, The Vidipix 1986 English
Lost Property Edward McArdle 1994 English Solution
Lost Quill, The Sinclair Freaker'n info 1986 Norwegian
Lost Quill, The Sinclair Freaker'n info 1986 English
Lost Ruby, The Wrightchoice Software 1987 English Solution, Hints
Lost Shadow Data PD info 1990 English
Lost Temple, The Zenobi Software info 1990 English Solution, Hints
Lost World, The Eddie Park, Walter Pooley 1993 English Solution
Lover Boy C. Overweg ? English Solution
Lucius: Aut Cesar... Explorer info 1987 Italian
Mad in Cashcais Cascaismicro 1986 Portuguese
Madcap Manor Gilsoft International 1985 English Solution, Map
Mafia Contract Atlantis Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Mafia Contract II: The Sequel Atlantis Software 1986 English Solution, Map
Magic ? 1984 French
Magic Castle Gilsoft International 1983 English Solution, Map
Magical Mystery Tour Adventure Probe Software info ? English Solution, Map
Magician, The Magick Enterprises info 1984 English Solution
Magician's Apprentice, A Guild Adventure Software, The info, WoW Software info 1990 English Solution, Map
Magnetic Moon Adventure Workshop, The info, Elk Adventure Club, The info, FSF Adventures 1987 English Solution, Map, Hints
Magnus Tanner: Virus Delta 1 (Dov'รจ finito Mark Williams?) Explorer info 1987 Italian
Magnus Tanner: Virus Delta II Ultimo Atto Viking info 1987 Italian
Magus D.N.D. Software 1988 English Solution, Map
Malevolence ? 1987 English
Malice in Blunderland Guild Adventure Software, The info 1985 English Solution
Malice in Blunderland Argus Specialist Publications, Spectrum Computing 1986 English Solution
Malice in Wonderland Lumpsoft, Sentient Software info 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Mandrake's Domain Steve James Taylor ? English
Manoir du Comte Frozarda, Le MBC Informatique 1988 French Solution, Map
Manor of Doom King Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Manor of Madness Celtic Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Mansbie Quest, The Mike Howard 1987 English
Mansion Kali Commodore plus 2012 Spanish
Mansion Kali II Commodore plus 2013 Spanish
Mansion Quest Atlas Adventure Software info, H&D Services info 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Marie Celeste Atlantis Software 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
Marie Celeste Adventure Walrus Computing 1985 English Solution, Hints
Marmelade MBC Informatique 1987 French Solution
Marooned Zenobi Software info 1992 English Solution, Map
Matchmaker Adventure Workshop, The info, River Software 1986 English Solution, Map
Mediterranean Mission ? 1987 English
Mega-Adventure COMPUTE! Publications 1991 English Solution
Melita Adventure I Philip Bourne 1990 English
Melita Adventure II Philip Bourne 1990 English
Meltdown Zenobi Software info 1994 English Solution, Map, Hints
Memory Guild Adventure Software, The info 1985 English Solution
Merhownie's Light K-Soft [1] info 1986 English Solution
Merlin Adventure Workshop, The info, WoW Software info 1990 English Solution, Map
Merlin's Golden Trove Free Spirit Software 1992 English Solution, Map
Merlin's Magic Forest Free Spirit Software 1992 English Solution, Map