Username: Password:
RegisterForgotten Password

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.

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Title Publisher Year Language Documents
RJ's Ultimatum Adventure Workshop, The info 1993 English Solution, Hints
Robin Hood Artic Computing 1985 English Solution, Map
Robin of Sherlock Silversoft 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Robo-City Argus Press Software, Spectrum Computing 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
Robocide Asclepios Software ? English
Robyn Hode Runesoft 1984 English Solution, Map
Rogue Comet Walrus Computing 1986 English Solution, Map
Rogue Ship Altair Software 1984 English
Rohak the Swordsman Elk Adventure Club, The info 1987 English Solution
Ronnie Goes to Hollywood 8th Day Software 1987 English Solution
Roog Simon Avery info 1990 English Solution
Rouge Midget Guild Adventure Software, The info 1991 English Solution
Rouge Midget II Guild Adventure Software, The info 1994 English Solution
Roy Norton: Fuga nel tempo Explorer info 1987 Italian
Roy Norton: Terrore al Castello Viking info 1987 Italian
Royal Adventures of a Common Frog Automata UK info 1985 English Solution, Map
Rubber Maze, The Simple Soft 1984 English Solution
Runestaff Squaresoft 1987 English Solution, Hints
Sagitarian L. J. Stretton, M. C. Stretton, P. A. Eves ? English Solution
Saucer Adventure Page 6 info 1985 English
Sausages Mirage Software info 1992 English
Scary Mansion Zodiac Software info 1987 English Solution
School Lee Tonks info, Mark Tonks 1984 English
School 2 Lee Tonks info, Mark Tonks 1984 English
School Caper Magic Realm Games 1987 English
Scoop Sentient Software info 1985 English Solution, Map
Sea of Zirun Central Solutions info 1986 English Solution, Map
Sea Phantom, The CodeWriter 1985 English Solution
Sea Queen, The Jonathon Paul Oates 1988 English
Sea Spray Incident, The Scorpio Gamesworld info 1985 English Solution, Map
Seabase Delta Firebird info 1985 English Solution, Map
Sealed City, The Central Solutions info 1985 English Solution, Map
Search For Sex P.H. Atholsoft 1989 English
Search, The Duncan Bowen Youth Wing info, Kent Youth Computer Group 1986 English
Secret of Funland, the John R. Olsen info 1988 English
Secret of Little Hodcome, The Zenobi Software info 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Secret of St. Brides, The Audiogenic Software, St Bride's School info 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Secrets of the Pyramid of Light Gold Disk info, Laing Marketing 1985 English
Secrets of Ur, The Bill Clews 1989 English Solution, Hints
Semi-Detached at the End of the Street, The Simple Soft 1984 English Solution
Serpentine Tale, A Adventure Workshop, The info, Zenobi Software info 1993 English Solution
Seven Lost Gnomes WoW Software info 1992 English Solution, Map
Sex Machine Shattered Dreams 1987 English
Sex Vixens From Space Free Spirit Software 1988 English Solution
Shadows in the Night Adventure Workshop, The info 1995 English Solution, Hints
Sheerluck Holmes and Dr. Witsend Speccysoft 1987 English
Shifting Sands, The Free Spirit Software, Keypunch Software 1987 English Solution, Map
Shimmerkin Adventure Probe Software info ? English Solution
Ship of Doom Artic Computing, Incentive Software, Paxman Promotions 1982 English Solution, Map
Ship Wrecked Gavin Ellicott, Scott Julian 1986 English Solution, Map