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Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 1:58 pm
by Gunness
In the database there are a number of games listed under
Duckworth.
I've found these games for a number of platforms, often with different publishers. They were all in straight BASIC, so they should be easy to port. Does anyone know what platforms these games were
officially published on, and how many that are "private" ports?
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:24 pm
by dave
I always thought that these where on the BBC, I noticed that Amazon has a load of their books:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... ng&x=0&y=0
The BBC versions seem to be using the extended BBC BASIC features (e.g. PROCs)
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 10:30 pm
by Alastair
Duckworth published a number of books written by Peter Gerrard called "Exploring Adventures on the X" where X is a computer platform. The meat of the book was how to program adventure games in BASIC, with the development of "Underground" being the example, Tunnelmaze and Castlemaze were listed at the back.
For those who did not want to type in the programs you could buy all three games on one cassette from Duckworth (or rather their software arm Ducksoft).
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:14 am
by Gunness
Dave, Amazon never ceases to amaze me. I'd never have thought that such books were still available. Perhaps I should see if my "C64 memory guide" is worth a few quid
Alastair wrote:Duckworth published a number of books written by Peter Gerrard called "Exploring Adventures on the X" where X is a computer platform....For those who did not want to type in the programs you could buy all three games on one cassette from Duckworth (or rather their software arm Ducksoft).
Ah.... that explains part of it. So the new question is: Where can I find a list of "X"?
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:10 pm
by Alastair
I found this via Google:
Link to Greenwich Council library catalogue search (and remember to click on the other two pages).
I don't know if there were any more books but the list seems pretty comprehensive.
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:40 am
by Alastair
There's an advert for the "Exploring Adventures" in "Micro Adventurer" Issue 3 (January 1984) on page 44 (bottom left corner) which lists the current and upcoming books in the series, as can be seen here at
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... 300044.jpg (thank you WoS). The questions now become, were any more books published, which were written by Peter Gerrard and which by Kevin Bergin, and was there any difference in the adventures included in each book (especially between the Gerrard and Bergin editions).
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:45 pm
by Alastair
I think I might have misunderstood the advert and that Peter Gerrard wrote all of the "Exploring Adventures" books, and Kevin Bergin wrote some of the other listed titles. This probably means that the three adventures in each book are the same. I have amended the entries accordingly using the list at
http://wikireadia.org/search-books-by-isbn/3/46/14.html as a guide, note that this list does not mention the Sharp MZ.
Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:56 am
by dave
I've added a note to the game: I found the version of Castlemaze for the Sharp MZ-80K on a collection tape from the Sharp Users Club. So I'm guessing it's an unofficial conversion.