Appleton/The Village... Original source?
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:55 pm
The Walter Pooley Quilled game, Appleton...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C77 ... C+The.html
...has an comment in the database originating from the WOS archive, namely...
"According to the author, this was a remake of an older Dragon game. It was never officially released."
I've determined that, despite "never being released", this game was fairly widely circulated in the community; with hints appearing in Sinclair User and also Adventure Probe as early as 1990 (pushing back the date of (non!) publication from 1992 to at least as early as 1990.
However, I'd be interested to try and track down which Dragon game (or possibly TRS-80 CoCo game) it was based on. I know that there are people more familiar with those games on here... I'm presuming it would've been a BASIC type-in game, from a magazine or a book. Walter's Desert Island was inspired by the plot of a TRS-80 game, if I remember correctly.
Here's some details of the basic plot of Appleton, as I've quickly ascertained...
IN THE SLEEPY VILLAGE OF }APPLETON
Nothing ever happens,
Crime statistics are zero.
Then recently a major theft took place,
Your task,to discover what has happened?, and to return the stolen, ? ? back to the owner...
The aim of the game is to find the missing Church Roof restoration fund and return it to the vicar.
The solution is here...
http://solutionarchive.com/file/id%2C1084/
I've uploaded a copy of the Quilled database here...
http://8bitag.com/temp/APPLE1.TXT
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C77 ... C+The.html
...has an comment in the database originating from the WOS archive, namely...
"According to the author, this was a remake of an older Dragon game. It was never officially released."
I've determined that, despite "never being released", this game was fairly widely circulated in the community; with hints appearing in Sinclair User and also Adventure Probe as early as 1990 (pushing back the date of (non!) publication from 1992 to at least as early as 1990.
However, I'd be interested to try and track down which Dragon game (or possibly TRS-80 CoCo game) it was based on. I know that there are people more familiar with those games on here... I'm presuming it would've been a BASIC type-in game, from a magazine or a book. Walter's Desert Island was inspired by the plot of a TRS-80 game, if I remember correctly.
Here's some details of the basic plot of Appleton, as I've quickly ascertained...
IN THE SLEEPY VILLAGE OF }APPLETON
Nothing ever happens,
Crime statistics are zero.
Then recently a major theft took place,
Your task,to discover what has happened?, and to return the stolen, ? ? back to the owner...
The aim of the game is to find the missing Church Roof restoration fund and return it to the vicar.
The solution is here...
http://solutionarchive.com/file/id%2C1084/
I've uploaded a copy of the Quilled database here...
http://8bitag.com/temp/APPLE1.TXT