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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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Tangled Tale, A Dave Watson 1985 English Solution, Map
Teacher Trouble Anthony Collins info 1987 English Solution, Map
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Temporal Free Spirit Software 1988 English Solution
Terror Temple Cobra Software 1985 English
Terrormolinos Melbourne House 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Terry Jones - L'Occhio del Condor Parte I: Il Museo Epic 3000 info, Explorer info 1986 Italian
Terry Jones - L'Occhio del Condor Parte II: Il Tempio Explorer info 1986 Italian
Test, The ? ? English Solution, Map
Theatre of Death, The Central Solutions info 1986 English Solution, Map
There's a Bomb Under Parliament Zenobi Software info 1991 English Solution
They Say the World Will Die in Fire and Ice Electric Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Thief in the Night, A Westy Productions 1989 English Solution, Map
Thief's Adventure J Soft Co info 1986 English Hints
Thief's Tale, A Guild Adventure Software, The info, WoW Software info 1991 English Solution, Map
Three Hours to Live John R. Olsen info 1985 English
Time Bomb Logyk Software 1995 English
Time Lords Amulet, The Steven Kendall info 1984 English Solution, Map
Time of the End Mandarin Adventures info 1986 English Solution, Map
Time Quest Central Solutions info 1984 English Solution, Map
Time Quest Scorpio Gamesworld info 1985 English Solution, Map
Time Search Millenium Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Time Thief Big Sky Software 1988 English Solution
Time-Line Gilsoft International 1983 English Solution, Map
TimeTrap Ken Woods ? English
Tizpan, Lord of the Jungle Adventure Workshop, The info, Scull PD info 1990 English Solution
Toby's Rescue Softlands 1985 English Solution, Map
Tomb of Death, The Grim Reaper, The info 1993 English
Tomb of Horrors, The Charles Jacks 1985 English
Tony Petr Veselý, Tomáš Němec ? Czech
Torquest Guild Adventure Software, The info ? English
Torreoscura Commodore plus 2020 Spanish Solution, Map
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Total Reality Delusion Guild Adventure Software, The info, WoW Software info 1991 English Solution, Map
Tourist Trouble ESP Software [1] info 1992 English Solution
Tower of Despair Games Workshop 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
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Träskskatten Softed 1987 Swedish
Traveller, The Double Play Adventures 1984 English Solution, Map
Treasure David Edgar 1986 English Solution
Treasure of the Santa Maria, The Zenobi Software info 1991 English Solution, Map
Trevor Scott: L'idolo di smeraldo Viking info 1987 Italian
Trevor Scott: L'Isola della Paura Explorer info 1987 Italian
Trixie's Quest Arthur Simmons 1990 English Solution
Trollbound Questline 1986 English Solution
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Twelve Days of Christmas, The Adventure Workshop, The info, Zenobi Software info 1994 English Solution
Unchanter Jan Åberg 1986 English
Underworld - The Village Orpheus 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints