BASICODE Adventures...
Posted: 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.
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.