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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
Casebook of Hemlock Soames 3, The CodeWriter 1985 English
Castle Adventure Atlas Adventure Software info, H&D Services info 1985 English Solution, Map
Castle Eerie Tartan Software info 1987 English Solution, Map, Hints
Castle Morcan Sword Software info 1989 English Solution
Castle of Lost Souls, The Games Workshop 1984 English Solution, Map
Castle of the Skull Lord Samurai Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Castle Thade Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club 1986 English Solution, Map
Castle Thade Revisited Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club 1987 English Solution, Map, Hints
Castle Warlock Adventure Probe Software info, Adventure Workshop, The info, Guild Adventure Software, The info 1987 English Solution, Map
Castle, The Ian Collier 1996 English Solution
Cat and the Canary, The Michael Morizio ? English Solution, Hints
Caves of Madness, The Mayberry Madness Enterprises 1986 English
Challenge of the Pirate King, The CodeWriter 1985 English Map
Challenge, The River Software 1987 English Solution, Map
Changeling, The M. J. Gearing 1984 English Solution, Map
Charles Bryan - Prigioniero del Futuro Explorer info 1987 Italian Solution
Chrononauts, The Reeves Telecommunications Laboratories info ? English
Citadel of Yah-Mon, The Guild Adventure Software, The info 1989 English Solution, Map
Classroom Chaos Central Solutions info 1986 English Map, Hints
Claws of Despair, The Players Software 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Clerics Quest Global Games info 1989 English Solution
Clive Sullivan - Libertador Viking info 1987 Italian
Clive Sullivan - Nessuna Notizia dal Campo Base Epic 3000 info, Explorer info 1986 Italian Solution
Cloak of Darkness Roger Firth 1999 English Solution, Map
Clutches of the Balrog Sonia Griffiths-Glover ? English Solution
Colossal Cave Adventure Anubis Software 1985 English Solution, Map, Fixed game
Colour of Magic, The Piranha 1986 English Solution, Map
Commando Pocket Money Software info 1984 English Solution, Map
Complex Guild Adventure Software, The info, TOL Software info 1986 English Solution
Computer Adventure ? ? English
Computer Solution, The Mike Howard 1987 English
Confidential Radar Games 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Connecticut Apple Affair, The Omni Software 1984 English
Conquest of Amy's Holes, The ? ? English Solution
Corporal Stone Zenobi Software info 1992 English Solution
Corridors of the Nethermind Celtic Software 1985 English
Corsair! Grim Reaper, The info 1993 English
Cottage, The TSF's Workshop 1995 English Solution, Map
Countdown Central Solutions info 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints, Clue sheet
Countdown Forward Software 1984 English Solution, Hints
Country Capers Guild Adventure Software, The info 1986 English Solution
Crash Landing Guild Adventure Software, The info, Recreation Re-Creation Software 1986 English Solution, Hints
Crimble Microtech Systems 1986 English
Crom Celerysoft 1987 English Solution, Hints
Crown of Ramhotep, The Tartan Software info 1987 English Solution, Map, Hints
Crystal Cavern, The Adventure Workshop, The info, Handasoft info 1988 English Solution, Map
Crystal Dream Members in East Ukrainian State University Crystal Dream 1996 Russian
Crystal Frog, The Kerian UK 1985 English Solution, Map
Crystal Quest Pocket Money Software info 1985 English Solution, Map
Crystals of Doom Time Assassin 1985 English Solution