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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
Merlin's Quest SKS Software 1984 English
Mexican Adventure SharpSoft 1982 English Solution
Million Dollar Great Jewel Heist, The Atlas Adventure Software info, Guild Adventure Software, The info 1991 English Solution, Map, Hints
Mindbender Gilsoft International 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
Mines of Lithiad, The Zenobi Software info 1992 English Solution, Map
Minister for Alien Affairs, The Mandarin Adventures info 1986 English
Miser, The Adventure Workshop, The info, River Software 1990 English Solution, Map
Mission Malta Stephan de la Motte 1988 German
Mission X Atlas Adventure Software info, H&D Services info 1986 English Solution, Map
Molesworth Ian Aldridge 1991 English Solution, Map
Moon Stroll James L. Kagey Jr. ? English Solution
Moonquake Laurence Creighton info 1989 English Solution, Map, Hints
Moonscape - Escape From the Moon Simon Allan Software 2008 English Solution, Hints, Fixed game
Moonstone Page 6 info 1988 English Solution
Moreby Jewels, The Ted Bugler 1985 English Solution, Map
Morgan Tyler - Il Pianeta Maledetto Viking info 1987 Italian
Morgan Tyler - Star Plague Viking info 1987 Italian
Moron Atlantis Software 1986 English Solution
Motorcycle Crazy Kerian UK 1984 English Solution, Map
Mozg Procesor Computer Adventure Studio, Mirage Software [2] info 1989 Polish
Mr Seguin's Goat Lionel Ange info 2023 English Solution, Map
Mrazik '88 Phalas 1988 Czech
Mummy's Crypt, The Zenobi Software info 1993 English Solution, Map, Hints
Murder Central Solutions info 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Murder Hunt Bodkin Software 1985 English Solution, Map
Murder Hunt Central Solutions info 1986 English Solution, Map
Murder Hunt Moonchild Software info, Zenobi Software info 1989 English Solution
Murder Hunt II Zenobi Software info 1992 English Solution, Hints
Murder Off Miami CRL Group 1987 English Solution, Hints
Muren Micro Limit 1984 Swedish
Murray Shannon - L'Orrore di Goldmine City Explorer info 1987 Italian Solution
Mutant River Software, Zenobi Software info 1986 English Solution, Map
My House Guild Adventure Software, The info 1991 English Solution
Mysterious Fairground Buffer Micro 1984 English Solution, Map
Mystery of the Clock Seller, The CodeWriter 1984 English Solution
Mystery Voyage Colleen 1986 English Solution, Map
Na Balkanu Nista Novo Samir Ribic, Zeljko Juric 1989 Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
Napoleon's Sandwiches Sim Soft 1985 English Solution
Naughty Bytes FTW Products 1984 English Solution, Map
Necronomycon, The Oblique Strategy ? English Solution
Nemo's Island Walrus Computing 1985 English Solution
Nexus Adventure ? ? English Solution, Map
Nigel Stevenson: Il Regno di Ghorr Viking info 1987 Italian
Nigel Stevenson: La Legge di Thorus Viking info 1987 Italian Solution
Night of the Walking Dead Free Spirit Software 1984 English Solution
Nightmare Futuresoft 1986 English Solution, Map
Nine Dancers, The Larsoft 1986 English Solution, Hints
Noah Michael Young 1984 English Solution, Map
Nosferatu: Quest for the Vampire Omni Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Number 6 in the Village Philip Richmond 1986 English Solution, Map