Quest [Roger Chaffee]

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Quest [Roger Chaffee]

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Following up from a comment on Jason Dyer's blog (https://bluerenga.blog/2024/11/26/1982- ... ent-102310) I notice that we have various unofficial ports of Roger Chaffee's 1978 game Quest listed as separate entries in the database.

I'll be going through and at least linking the extra entries back to Roger's original Quest. At this point, it may be less confusing to keep them as separate entries but the versions will be summarised on the main page.

Roger's Quest
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C5078/Quest.html
[in German] https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C6007/Quest.html
[in Italian] https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9235/Quest.html

Caves of Silver
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2 ... ilver.html [credited to Mark William in the ComputerMat adverts, but like his other title on that adventure compilation, seems to be just a tweak of someone else's code]

Pirate's Treasure
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9 ... asure.html [a graphical version for the TRS-80 Co-Co]

There is also a DOS version, which is a port of the TRS-80 CoCo release, that was seemingly well-known back in the day, commonly referred to as PIRATE.
The credits in that version say:
Original program by Lee Dusbabek for the famous Skip Hanson (WB6YMH)

Published in the July 1979 Byte Magazine

Converted to the TRS-80 Color Computer and graphics added by A. Nany Muss No credit was given in the above program to the original author. Transfered to the IBM-PC by Mark Granger: December 1984

This program is public domain and should stay that way!
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Re: Quest [Roger Chaffee]

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Continuing to log some other versions, as identified by Jason Dyer in https://bluerenga.blog/2024/12/09/schatzoeken-1982/

i.e. the Dutch adaptations; Schatzoeken.

The first Dutch version, by Hans Pennings was for the P2000 and dates to at least as early as 1982. It has some changes to the game logic.

Jason has highlighted the F. E. Leene Vic20 version is from later that year. Jason says that is a more faithful translation of the original but incorporates the name used in the P2000 version.

We already have that listed under...
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C6 ... oeken.html

Rob has commented on Jason's article:
Quest – Yeah, you guessed what this might be. But here’s the weird part: “door P.v.d. Steen. Naar een idee van ROGER CHAFFEE. 30-9-1981”. So apparently this is an even earlier Dutch version of Quest, by a different author. Maybe that’s why the Vic-20 port used both titles? No idea what the differences might be, but the intro text looks nearly identical, so maybe Penning actually swiped his translation from here?

Possibly related to this is yet another Quest thst I noticed in the Heathkit BUSS newsletter (December 15, 1981, page 1). Reading the description again, it sounds an awful lot like another Chaffee port, this time with the gimmick of computerized speech. Hard to be entirely sure, though. Otherwise undocumented, as far as I can tell.
Which potentially may highlight some additional Dutch ports of the game.
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James L. Dean ported the original version to Java.
https://paganlibrary.com/arcade/treasurehunt/index.php

There's a mention of an adaption by David A. Hook, here https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/c64/Index

GWBasic https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiv ... rce/basic/
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Exemptus has pointed out that Tansoft's Quest is basically the same game
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C1559/Quest.html
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It is clearly based on the same source material. The Tansoft version changes some things and adds others, so it should have a separate entry, but the game itself is recognisable. It's more a "derived port with additions" than a port.
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Yeah, I'm not going to be proposing a whole scale merge of all these entries (at least not at this point). To start with I'll just be adding links between any of these derivatives and the main Chaffee page.
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The Commodore PET version was later published in Byte, vol. 4, no. 7, July 1979, pp. 176, 178–182, 184–186. This is the best known version out there and was the basis for most of the ports to other systems.

There's a version for the Atari 8-bit ported to Atari BASIC by Jim Steinbrecher from the PET version in Byte.

The Atari ST version is tagged as version 3.0 and written in AdvSys.

The C64 German version appears to have been published in Commodore Welt.

The C64 English version was ported by David A Hook.

I'm sure there are others.
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