Let's Compute - Adventure Writing Tutorial
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:34 pm
I noticed on the page for the tiny type-in adventure The Golden Crown that it made reference to a Commodore 64 version but didn't know the source, or if it was official.
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C23 ... C+The.html
I managed to track it down to an issue of Let's Compute (a short-lived, cheap and cheerful 1990/91 British magazine)
https://archive.org/details/LetsCompute ... +Battle%22
...where it actually appears as a listing with modifications for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
Let's Compute went on, in subsequent issues, to include a monthly BASIC adventure writing tutorial.
Sadly, the magazine closed down before the tutorial concluded. No idea who wrote the tutorial but, like the Golden Crown, I imagine most of the listings were drawn from the large back catalogue of magazine type-ins of the publisher Database Publications.
Part One: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 5/mode/2up
Part Two: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
Part Three: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
Part Four: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
Part Five: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C23 ... C+The.html
I managed to track it down to an issue of Let's Compute (a short-lived, cheap and cheerful 1990/91 British magazine)
https://archive.org/details/LetsCompute ... +Battle%22
...where it actually appears as a listing with modifications for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
Let's Compute went on, in subsequent issues, to include a monthly BASIC adventure writing tutorial.
Sadly, the magazine closed down before the tutorial concluded. No idea who wrote the tutorial but, like the Golden Crown, I imagine most of the listings were drawn from the large back catalogue of magazine type-ins of the publisher Database Publications.
Part One: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 5/mode/2up
Part Two: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
Part Three: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
Part Four: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up
Part Five: https://archive.org/details/Lets_Comput ... 7/mode/2up