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BASICODE Adventures...

#1 Post by Strident » Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:09 pm

We spent a little time exploring BASICODE adventures in the past... https://solutionarchive.com/phpBB3/view ... f=3&t=1421

I came across the first in a series of games called The Chronauts, when flicking though an old Micro Adventurer the other day...

The Chrononauts: Episode B1 - Morphostasis
by John de Rivaz

from issue 8, June 1984 issue of Micro Adventurer
https://archive.org/details/MicroAdvent ... /page/n25/
pp.26-31

He was a new name to me, but he was a prolific contributor of programs to Popular Computing Weekly and later ran a fractal newsletter. Seems like his past machines included the Exidy Sorcerer, Spectrum, and the QL.

There's a follow-up article...
Issue 9, July 1984
https://archive.org/details/micro-adven ... /page/n33/
...that mentions two additional adventures in the series, also produced in BASICODE2; The Graveyard (game 2) and The Sirens of Space (game 3).

Mr de Rivaz is an interesting chap, with a storied background in radio, electronics and early computing... I think he's the same John de Rivaz responsible for the capturing the audio of many of the lost Doctor Who episodes... He is very much into the whole idea of cryogenics, and a lot of his programming projects and games promoted that whole concept; these adventures included.

I've sent him a message to ask if any of his Quilled games, or the other BASICODE adventures, survive in any form. But there is a complete adventure there, in BASICODE, for those that like having a nose at that sort of thing.

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Re: BASICODE Adventures...

#2 Post by Strident » Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:23 pm

Strident wrote:
Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:09 pm
I've sent him a message to ask if any of his Quilled games, or the other BASICODE adventures, survive in any form.
Sadly not, apparently, but perhaps the Quilled games distributed on Micronet 800 will turn up at some point.

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Re: BASICODE Adventures...

#3 Post by Keetie » Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:00 pm

Hello,

I know of 2 Basicode textadventures in Dutch: De Tijdmachine, written by G.A.Lunter and Schatzoeker, written by P.Kralt.

The first Chrononauts adventure is a kind of textadventure creator, written in Basicode2 by John de Rivaz.

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Re: BASICODE Adventures...

#4 Post by Strident » Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:57 pm

Yes, two of those are referenced in these threads (we had a big discussion previously about De Tijdmachine and it even got an English translation as a result) but I didn't know that Schatzoeker originated as a BASICODE game, so I'll make sure that one gets tagged in the database as such - thanks.

Now that you've pointed it out, I see that it's included on the list of programs in the BASICODE in the Browser page that we've looked at previously...
https://robhagemans.github.io/basicode/#programs

We have an existing page for Schatzoeker here...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C64 ... oeker.html

I'm presuming that's derived from the same code that's on the Best of Basicode 5 compilation, anyway.
SCHATZOEKER
P. Kralt
Schout Eeuwoutstr. 30
3195 VZ PERNIS RT
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NOS HILVERSUM

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Re: BASICODE Adventures...

#5 Post by Strident » Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:02 pm

So, it seems like there's a build of Schatzoeker for ZX81 here...
https://archive.sundby.com/retro/sinclar/ZX-81/Various/

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