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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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Dood Spoor Micro Connection 1984 Dutch
Doomlords Scull PD info 1988 English Solution
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Dragon of Notacare, The David Edgar 1986 English Solution
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Dragonstar Trilogy Part I, The Delta 4 Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Dragonstar Trilogy Part II, The Delta 4 Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Dreamworld Guild Adventure Software, The info 1993 English Solution
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Eleventh Hour, The Venturesoft info 1986 English Solution, Map
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Ellisnore Diamond, The Adventure Workshop, The info, River Software 1992 English Solution, Map
Enchanted Cottage, The Adventure Workshop, The info, River Software 1988 English Solution, Map
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Enigme du Triangle, L' Atari (France) 1985 French
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Escape R. G. Hallas 1997 English Solution
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Escape From Hodgkin's Manor Zenobi Software info 1990 English Solution, Map
Escape From Malagar ? ? English Solution, Map
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Escape From the Shire D.N.D. Software 1988 English Solution
Escape to Freedom Mario Moeller 1989 English Solution
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Escaping Habit, The Adventure Workshop, The info, Zenobi Software info 1992 English Solution, Map
Eurorun Xenon 1985 Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
Eurorun Xenon 1985 Slovenian