The Professional Adventure Writing System (PAWS) aka the Professional Adventure Writer (PAW) was Gilsoft's follow-up to its incredibly popular The Quill authoring system.
The system was created by Tim Gilberts and (original Quill author) Graeme Yeandle and was published in 1987 for Sinclair ZX Spectrum and also CP/M-based machines such as the Amstrad CPC & PCW. A version of the PAWS interpreter was created for the Commodore 64, but was only made available to commercial clients.
Elements of CP/M PAWS formed the basis of further systems created by Tim Gilberts, including SWAN and DAAD. Graeme Yeandle later created a version of PAWS for MS-DOS.
The system was a firm favourite of the independent adventure scene (both in the UK and in Spain), due to its ease of use, and many later systems were inspired by it including WinPAW, ngPAWS, NMP, SINTAC, Paguaglus, and Superglús.
| Title |
Publisher |
Year |
Language |
Documents |
| Grimalkin 128K |
Sword Software  |
1989 |
English |
Solution, Hints |
| Grimwold's Big Adventure |
Adventure Workshop, The , WoW Software  |
1993 |
English |
Solution |
| Grue-Knapped! |
Amster Productions, Fictitious Frobshire, FSF Adventures |
1990 |
English |
Solution |
| Guante Blanco |
Alien Software |
1993 |
Spanish |
|
| Guarded by Trolls |
Pension Productions  |
2019 |
English |
Solution |
| Gwain the Haffling |
Panic Software |
1990 |
Spanish |
|
| Habitación 310: el despertar |
Daniel Revenga  |
2022 |
Spanish |
Solution |
| Habitación 310: Encuentro |
Daniel Revenga  |
2023 |
Spanish |
|
| Hacia Mi Mundo |
? |
1992 |
Spanish |
|
| Hades |
Adventure Workshop, The , Dragonsoft  |
1992 |
English |
Solution |
| Hammer of Grimmold, The |
Adventure Workshop, The , River Software |
1986 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Handful of Snow, A |
Zenobi Software  |
? |
English |
|
| Haunting, The |
Elven Adventurers |
1991 |
English |
Solution |
| Hedda Strikes Again |
Adventure Probe Software  |
2003 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Hedda's Revenge |
Adventure Probe Software  |
1999 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Helvera: Mistress of the Park |
Amster Productions, FSF Adventures |
1990 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Heresville |
Wazertown Works |
1990 |
Spanish |
Solution, Map |
| Hermitage, The |
50/50 Club Software, Guild Adventure Software, The  |
1987 |
English |
Solution |
| Hero For Sorania, A |
Adventure Probe Software  |
1998 |
English |
Solution |
| Hibernated 1 - This Place Is Death |
Pond Soft, Puddle Software |
2018 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Hide and Seek |
Adventure Probe Software  |
1995 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Hideous, The |
Year Zero Software |
1992 |
Spanish |
|
| High Odds |
Crusader Computing |
? |
English |
|
| Hijo del Crepusculo, El |
Josep Coletas Caubet |
2009 |
Spanish |
Map |
| Hired to Kill |
Tom Powell |
1992 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Historias de Medialand |
JSJ Soft |
1989 |
Spanish |
|
| Hobbit (Demo), El |
Grupo Creators Union |
1989 |
Spanish |
|
| Hobble Hunter, The |
Compass Software  |
1989 |
English |
Solution, Hints |
| Holiday to Remember, A |
Visual Dimensions |
1987 |
English |
Solution |
| Holiday, The |
Edmund J. Spicer  |
1991 |
English |
|
| Homicide Hotel |
Adventure Workshop, The , Guild Adventure Software, The , Wallsoft |
1987 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Hoppit, The |
Electric Storm Productions |
2018 |
English |
|
| Horrorscope |
Square Peg |
1991 |
English |
Solution, Hints |
| Hospital, The |
Zenobi Software  |
1994 |
English |
Solution |
| Hounds of Hell |
Adventure Workshop, The , WoW Software  |
1991 |
English |
Solution, Hints |
| House of Lockerby, The |
Adventure Probe Software  |
2000 |
English |
Solution |
| House, The |
Advanced Adventure Creations |
1991 |
Spanish |
Solution, Map |
| House, The |
Adventure Probe Software , Zenobi Software  |
1993 |
English |
Solution |
| Hut, The |
Pension Productions  |
2019 |
English |
Solution, Hints |
| I Dare You |
Adventure Workshop, The , Guild Adventure Software, The  |
1992 |
English |
Solution |
| Idiliar |
Grupo Creators Union |
1991 |
Spanish |
|
| Infiltrator, The |
Zenobi Software  |
1989 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Into the Mystic |
River Software |
1991 |
English |
Solution |
| Intruder Alert |
Compass Software  |
1989 |
English |
Solution |
| Invaders From Planet X |
Compass Software  |
1991 |
English |
Solution |
| Invasion Luna |
Rafael Vico Costa |
1991 |
Spanish |
|
| Investigations |
Graphtext 128 |
1987 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Isla del Tesoro, La |
3PSOFT |
1991 |
Spanish |
|
| Island, The |
Ken Bond |
1989 |
English |
Solution, Map |
| Islands of Sinbad, The |
Zenobi Software  |
1997 |
English |
Solution, Hints |