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by Garry » Fri Apr 14, 2023 1:47 pm
Guardian has an interesting history. From the meagre snippets I've been able to find, and a degree of conjecture, it sounds like it was originally written in Atari BASIC by Mark Stinson as 'Guardian' in 1992, submitted to New Atari User and rejected. This was probably unpublished.
It was then modified by Paul Hampshire (with the author's permission) as 'Guardian of the Sacred Sword' in 1992 and released by A.U.R.A. as a public domain game. This has multiple files including a documentation file, a title screen, modified font and upper case room descriptions and nicely coloured blue screen.
It was then compiled by John E and Spite Ripsoft (two of the main characters behind A.U.R.A.) and released as 'Guardian Adventure' in 1992. This has a single AUTORUN.SYS file, lower case room descriptions and default GRAPHICS 0 screen colours. This is the version in the CASA entry linked above.
In view of the above, I think that the title for the existing entry should be changed to 'Guardian of the Sacred Sword' and some explanatory notes added. I'll send some screen grabs of both versions.
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Garry on Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
