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by Garry
Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:27 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Cornucopia
Replies: 68
Views: 21921

Re: Cornucopia

This may be coincidental, but there is a pattern in the numbers. If 101 is thought of as a binary number, where 1 means use and 0 means don't use, and that is applied to the second and third number, then the remaining digits are the fourth number. If this conjecture is true, then the game may set ...
by Garry
Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:02 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

I just realised that the ADAMagic game has the same title screen, but without the clouds and in different colours. The ADAMagic instructions screen also mentions a HELP command, so I reckon this is the last in the evolution of this game on the ADAM.
by Garry
Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:54 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

The Lowe/Zimmerman version was off a Northern Illiana ADAM Users (N.I.A.D.) public domain disk. I only submitted the first of the title screens, but the bottom line changes over 5 screens as follows:
by Chris Wilkinson
revised for ADAM(tm)
by N.J.Lowe
embellished by
Bob Zimmerman

I suspect that ...
by Garry
Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:22 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

Fascinating. This is all starting to fall into place.
by Garry
Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:36 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

More on 'Drive-in Adventure' taken from the BASIC source code of the CoCo version (which is not currently listed on the CASA database)...

It looks like it was written by Douglas C. Rogers in 1982 under the company name of Program Dynamics. It was distributed on his ADVENTURELAND BBS. Further ...
by Garry
Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:36 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

The text in Castle Vampira and Chateau Gaillard is considerably different, but the theme looks the same, so that's another potential candidate. Really need to play both games to be sure.
by Garry
Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:26 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

Good work by Paul Ingerson! The first screen of Blind Date (once the game starts) certainly looks like the first screen of Drive-In. The only difference is the female character: Linda vs Andrea.
by Garry
Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:23 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

I wasn't sure about the Mogul Software side of things. I'm not really familiar with C64 stuff and it felt odd that some of the C64 games would be released by Mogul and others by Victory Software. Your explanation makes a lot more sense. Feel free to correct anything that I've got wrong.

I've come ...
by Garry
Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:13 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

I found some more info on the ADAMagic games.

There is a public domain version of 'Lighthouse Adventure' by Chris Wilkinson. This was ported by N J Lowe, then enhanced by Bob Zimmerman. One of these is most likely the version that was subsequently enhanced again by an unknown author and published ...
by Garry
Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:10 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
Replies: 49
Views: 345737

Re: Steve W. Lucas games

I believe that's correct. I think I had a comment about it in the C64 entry.
by Garry
Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:13 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins
Replies: 18
Views: 5042

Re: ADAMagic adventures... Working out the origins

This is another fine rabbit hole that you've got me into. (I love these rabbit holes!)

Adventure Pack 1 contains 5 games as follows:
The Sorcerer's Dungeon
This was originally written for the CoCo by Don McCray Jr and Jerry Sundee of D&J Adventures and Software. (The D&J in the company name is ...
by Garry
Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:16 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Phoenix Software...softwares....
Replies: 6
Views: 2449

Re: Phoenix Software...softwares....

I probably did the screen grabs. I've got the BASIC listing and it has no reference to the author or publisher, whereas the other Phoenix Software games ('Four Gates to Freedom' and 'The 'O' Level Caper') have very clear credits to the author and publisher on the title screen. That's what makes me ...
by Garry
Sun Sep 26, 2021 7:27 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Phoenix Software...softwares....
Replies: 6
Views: 2449

Re: Phoenix Software...softwares....

There's a review of the VIC-20 version of the Griffin Software games in Home Computing Weekly , issue 28, 13 September 1983, p. 37, so they must have been released. The one-sentence description of 'Time Slip' in that review sounds very similar to the Phoenix game, so they may well be the same. Is it ...
by Garry
Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:47 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Phoenix Software...softwares....
Replies: 6
Views: 2449

Re: Phoenix Software...softwares....

Good detective work. To summarise:

'Time Slip' and 'Treasure Island' were written by Graham John Saunders and published by Griffin Software for the VIC-20, C64 & Spectrum ZX. No dumps of these games have been recorded.

'Time Slip' was written by an unknown author and published by Phoenix Software ...