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by Strident
Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:21 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Does 'De Tijdmachine' exist for Spectrum ZX?
Replies: 33
Views: 18405

Re: Does 'De Tijdmachine' exist for Spectrum ZX?

(Here's a nice UK-centric article on BASICODE and the BBC Radio broadcasts... https://nosher.net/archives/computers/comm_008-acorn )
by Strident
Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:48 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Does 'De Tijdmachine' exist for Spectrum ZX?
Replies: 33
Views: 18405

Re: Does 'De Tijdmachine' exist for Spectrum ZX?


Hi. Could anyone direct me to the BBC BASIC version of this game, please? I can't seem to find it online anywhere. I've found a BASICODE version, but I get the impression from this thread and from the CASA entry that there's a separate BBC BASIC version out there..?

The BASICODE version would've ...
by Strident
Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:10 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted
Replies: 82
Views: 368778

Re: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted

The Atari 400/800 entry for Aural Quest...
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C1 ... Quest.html

...is an unofficial conversion of the Spectrum Aural Quest...
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2 ... Quest.html

So the first link needs to be deleted.
by Strident
Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:38 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game

Just played the game on the TRS80gp emulator with no apparent issues. EDIT: Oh, you got it working. :) Cool.

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by Strident
Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:26 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game


Thank you for the information about Mystery Mansion. I tried that site in the past and did not find it. However, I did find it just now after 3 search attempts. Unfortunately, that file is corrupted. In the TRS80gp emulator, when you get to the title page, an input command overwrites most of the ...
by Strident
Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:06 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game


Some people have reviewed these games. For example, one reviewer in Australia played Mystery Mansion by Greg Hassett on the TRS-80 and has a copy he edited to complete the game. But he never made it available on the internet for others even though all of Greg Hassett's games are definitely in the ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:55 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game

Have caught up with your posts now, webowl. Apologies if it looked like we were ignoring your comments. :) I've reached out to a couple of people that I know are archiving and accurately imaging some pretty rare Apple II disks, to ask them to look out for the missing game. Odyssey was so extensively ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:54 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Primal Adventure... 1980?
Replies: 1
Views: 2789

Primal Adventure... 1980?

Jason Dyer was trying to find some confirmation of the year for Primal Adventure by Robert A. Sunners.

It's listed as 1980, in various places (including here) but does anyone know of a primary source for that date?

I see that Bob had plenty of programs printed in publications, such as Micro-80, at ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:07 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game


The C64 version is in CBM 64 programs - Volume 1 , Duckworth Home Computing, 1984, pp. 169–189. It is credited to Mark Capella, but I don't know whether he actually ported it.

He seems to have some C64 credits but, again, it's hard to tell how many of those were just ports of his work on other ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:28 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game


You're welcome to add any new info. I'm not concerned about credits.

This is just a hunch, but I reckon the C64 version probably came from the PET version, as the PET was around when the Apple II was around. We're talking 1980. The C64 came much later.

The Nibble magazines on CD cost money. I ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:00 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game


'Will 'o the Wisp' was published in Nibble , vol. 1, no. 8, December 1980, pp. ?–? and reprinted in Nibble Express , vol. 1, pp. 151–158. It was ported to the TI-99/4A by Barry T Boland and to the TRS-80 by an unknown author.

Does anyone know where I can get copies of Nibble so that I can check ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:45 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game

I presume Mark Capella is listed on the instructions you have as the author, as he's not mentioned in any of the adverts?

We have him in the database for his Will o' the Wisp game... but I see our information on that is actually incomplete as, as Jason Dyer of Renga in Blue, points out that game ...
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:32 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game

There is a brief mention in Space Gamer (#31/September 1980), but it merely says:
Unfortunately, Powersoft's adventure game, World of Odyssey, is slow and does not recommend itself.
by Strident
Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:18 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game
Replies: 30
Views: 43081

Re: Lost Apple II commercial text adventure game


The only published reference to this game is an advertisement in Popular Mechanics (or such) which can be found as a pdf file on one website if you do a thorough google search for this game.

Actually, there are quite a lot of references to World of Odyssey... but they are mostly advertisements ...
by Strident
Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:40 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Planet of Death
Replies: 12
Views: 8363

Re: Planet of Death


Ported some source I found on line from the ZX81 version to TRS-80 MC-10.

I added all the various "unofficial" conversions I could find to the game pages, including yours Jim. That's the type of information I'd personally ideally like to see on all the games pages.

Unless you found some source ...