Hall of the King - TRS-80 CoCo
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:36 pm
Anyone around here ever played the first part of this trilogy for the TRS-80 CoCo?:
http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/halloftheking.html
Back in the day it was billed as "the largest adventure campaign available for any computer" (it was a total of 6 disks, 2 for each part of the trilogy):
ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/NEWLY-RE ... eKing3.pdf
I was able to finish the second part:
http://www.solutionarchive.com/game/id,3710/
And I am currently stuck at what is likely close to the end of the third one (see my topic dedicated to this third part for more details), but I have not been able to do much in the first part. I don't know if it's just that I have not been able to discover what commands to use for some things to happen or if the only copy I was able to find on the Internet is corrupted. I took a look at the game with an editor and there's things that I can't seem to trigger with any command I have tried. For example, in the room with the dumbwaiter I can't make the rope appear (you can see it drawn on the graphics screen, but it does not appear on the "You see" section.) You need to pull the rope in order for the dumbwaiter to be raised, but commands like Examine or Search do not seem to do the trick of making you actually see that it's there.
http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/halloftheking.html
Back in the day it was billed as "the largest adventure campaign available for any computer" (it was a total of 6 disks, 2 for each part of the trilogy):
ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/NEWLY-RE ... eKing3.pdf
I was able to finish the second part:
http://www.solutionarchive.com/game/id,3710/
And I am currently stuck at what is likely close to the end of the third one (see my topic dedicated to this third part for more details), but I have not been able to do much in the first part. I don't know if it's just that I have not been able to discover what commands to use for some things to happen or if the only copy I was able to find on the Internet is corrupted. I took a look at the game with an editor and there's things that I can't seem to trigger with any command I have tried. For example, in the room with the dumbwaiter I can't make the rope appear (you can see it drawn on the graphics screen, but it does not appear on the "You see" section.) You need to pull the rope in order for the dumbwaiter to be raised, but commands like Examine or Search do not seem to do the trick of making you actually see that it's there.