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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
Shipwreck Tartan Software info 1987 English Solution, Map
Shore Leave TSF's Workshop 1998 English Solution, Map
Show Crazy Ssoft 1984 English
Skelvullyn Twine 8th Day Software 1988 English Solution
Slack Bladder Moonchild Software info 1987 English Solution, Map
Slippery, The Ruben Spaans 1991 English
Slottet ? ? Swedish
Smrkci Xenon 1985 Slovenian
Snow Queen, The Mosaic Publishing info 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Snowdrop Andrew Broadhurst, Philip Broadhurst 1987 English Solution
So Little Time Adventure Probe Software info, Dream World Adventures 1993 English Solution, Map
Soap Land Zodiac Software info 1987 English Solution, Map
Soho Sex Quest Malan Associates 1984 English Solution, Map
Sorcerer 16/48 Tape Magazine, Gilsoft International 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
Space Odyssey Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club 1986 English
Spaced-Out Scull PD info 1990 English Solution
Special Christmas Adventure, A Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club 1986 English Solution, Map
Special Christmas Adventure, A Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club 1987 English
Spell of Christmas Ice, A Star Dreams 1984 English Solution, Map
Spoof: The Magic Dragon Runesoft 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
Spore, The K-Soft [1] info 1986 English Solution, Map
Spyplane Gilsoft International 1983 English Solution, Map
St. Jives Dorothy Millard 1988 English Solution, Map, Hints
Staff of Law, The ? 1986 English
Staff of Power, The Adventure Workshop, The info, Zenobi Software info 1991 English Solution, Map
Staff of Zaranol, The CCS 1984 English Solution, Map
Star Crystal Edward Beck 1986 English Solution, Map
Star Reporter Haggisoft 1987 English Solution, Map
Star Voyage 1 & 2 CodeWriter 1985 English
Star Voyage 3 & 4 CodeWriter 1985 English
Starcrash Starcrash Software Systems 1986 English Solution, Map
Starship Quest Adventure Workshop, The info, Elk Adventure Club, The info, FSF Adventures 1988 English Solution
Station Wagon Blues ? ? English Solution, Map
Storm Mountain Data PD info 1990 English
Stowaway Base 7 Software 1989 English Solution
Stranded on Iloofrax Potter Programs info 1986 English Solution
Strumpfovi Xenon 1986 Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
Stud's Challenge Alva Data 1987 English
Subsunk Firebird info 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Suds Riverdale Software 1986 English Solution, Map
Sunken Adventure Scott Julian 1983 English
Supernova Doug Hyatt ? English
Survival Central Solutions info 1985 English Solution, Map
Survival of the Fittest Personal Computer News 1984 English Solution, Hints
Survivor Redwhite Software 1984 English
Survivor, The Aztec Software 1984 English
Swamp, The Birdwing Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Sweet Sixteen The ML Kid 1986 English Solution
Sword Storm Adventure Probe Software info 1987 English Solution, Map
Talisman of Lost Souls Guild Adventure Software, The info 1991 English Solution