Adventure international for the BEEB
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:39 pm
Hi there,
I am looking for an original cassette, or a UEF from an original cassette of ADVENTURE 7 - Mystery fun house, and ADVENTURE 8 - Pyramid of doom for the BBC Micro.
I have only recently discovered that there were 2 different interpreters used for the BBC versions.
The way it worked was that Scott Adams would produce an adventure in database form, and an interpreter for each machine was written to play it on that particular machine.
The beeb was lucky - or unlucky - it got 2 versions!
If you load some versions, you will see credit going to Brian Howarth for the game.
Others credit Mak Jukic.
I have Adventures 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,and 15 (14 wasn't released for the beeb)
From these, only 7 and 8 are Jukic versions.
The Brian Howarth versions look more pleasing to the eye, and seem to be less buggy.
To see what I mean, you can compare Pyramid of Doom from the STH 143 disk collection here: http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/sthco ... AS1_r1.zip
to the version on the new BBC micro website (plug plug plug!!), here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1687
Try
INV
GET LIQUID
INV
or
E
GET STONE
to see differences
Thanks in advance...
Lee
I am looking for an original cassette, or a UEF from an original cassette of ADVENTURE 7 - Mystery fun house, and ADVENTURE 8 - Pyramid of doom for the BBC Micro.
I have only recently discovered that there were 2 different interpreters used for the BBC versions.
The way it worked was that Scott Adams would produce an adventure in database form, and an interpreter for each machine was written to play it on that particular machine.
The beeb was lucky - or unlucky - it got 2 versions!
If you load some versions, you will see credit going to Brian Howarth for the game.
Others credit Mak Jukic.
I have Adventures 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,and 15 (14 wasn't released for the beeb)
From these, only 7 and 8 are Jukic versions.
The Brian Howarth versions look more pleasing to the eye, and seem to be less buggy.
To see what I mean, you can compare Pyramid of Doom from the STH 143 disk collection here: http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/sthco ... AS1_r1.zip
to the version on the new BBC micro website (plug plug plug!!), here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1687
Try
INV
GET LIQUID
INV
or
E
GET STONE
to see differences
Thanks in advance...
Lee