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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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Even the Gods May Die Louis Veal Irandahar ? English Solution, Map
Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold, An Zenobi Software info 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Evil Realm Turtle Software 1985 English Solution, Map
Example Adventure Dragonsoft info 1995 English
Extricator, The Commodore Force, Precision Games 1986 English Solution, Map, Hints
Eye of the Inca John R. Olsen info 1987 English Solution, Map, Hints
Eye of Vartan Pocket Money Software info 1985 English Solution, Map
Eyes of Medusa, The CodeWriter 1985 English
Fabled Treasure of Koosar, The Adventure Workshop, The info, Guild Adventure Software, The info 1992 English Solution, Map
Fadeout Angus Manwaring ? English Solution, Map
Faerie 8th Day Software 1985 English Solution, Map
Fakultet Ribic Samir 1987 Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
Fantasy Parte 1: L'Incantesimo Epic 3000 info, Explorer info 1986 Italian
Fantasy Parte 2: La Valle Mysteriosa Epic 3000 info, Explorer info 1986 Italian
Fantasy, The Mediandroid 1987 English Solution, Map
Farmer's Daughter, The Nocturnal Software 1986 English Solution
Father of Darkness Central Solutions info 1984 English Solution, Map
Faulty Towers Harbour Soft 1984 English Solution, Map
Fire Hawk Castle Cobra Software ? English Solution, Map
Fire Ruby, The Zenobi Software info 1997 English Solution, Map, Hints
Firelance Hamster Software 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Firestone, The Scull PD info 1990 English Solution
First Australian Hero, The Bluefire Software 1985 English
Flameout Zenobi Software info 1995 English Solution
Flight of the Unicorn Flight 19 Software 1985 English Solution
Flook WoW Software info 1986 English Solution
For Your Thighs Only Zodiac Software info 1987 English Solution, Map
Forest of Evil Hometown Software info ? English Solution, Map, Hints
Forest of Shadows, The Mario Nogueira info 1987 English Solution, Map
Forgotten City H.A.W.K. Adventuring info 1987 English Solution, Map
Fortress of Almuth, The CodeWriter 1985 English
Fortress of Keler Hamster Software 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Four Minutes to Midnight 8th Day Software 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Four Wands, The Dave W. Gore 1988 English Solution, Map
Fourth Dimension, The Laurence Creighton info 1989 English Solution, Map
Foxy Adventure PD info ? English Solution, Map
Frankenstein Adventure John R. Olsen info 1981 English Solution, Map, Hints
Frankie Crashed on Jupiter Kingsoft 1985 English Solution
Frog Face Positive Image 1984 English
From Darkness into Light CRL Group ? English
From out of a Dark Night Sky Zenobi Software info 1989 English Solution
Fuddo and Slam Zenobi Software info 1988 English Solution, Map, Hints
Funhouse Pacific Software 1984 English Solution, Map
Fuseman Bill Clews, Marion Clews 1985 English Solution, Map, Hints
Futurezoo Clwyd Adventure Software 1986 English Solution, Map
Galaxias Delta 4 Software 1984 English Solution, Map, Hints
Gates of Garralon, The Steven Cox 1984 English Solution
Gato con Botas, El Carlos Gonzalez-Cutre, Ignacio Gonzalez-Cutre Coll 1989 Spanish
Geneva Adventure, The Philip Bourne 1989 English
Gerbil Riot of '67, The Guild Adventure Software, The info, WoW Software info 1992 English Solution