Sirius Adventure
By M Laden Bauk
For Hitachi Peach, TRS-80 & TRS-80 CoCo
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution to a very simple game. There isn't much to do other than wander
around and find the treasures. Your inventory is limited to three items. As you need to carry a lamp
around to see in the dark, you are effectively limited to two items for most of the game. You will
need one or two other objects to get past barriers, so you are further limited when carrying those.
As a consequence, inventory management is paramount.
Despite it's small size, the game is marred by several bugs and other shortcomings. For
example:
- A room is not lit if you drop your lamp, even though the lamp is burning brightly. If you drop the
lamp, move away and come back, the room is dark. If you then get the lamp, the room does not light
up until you move away and come back.
- You cannot use LOOK or L to refresh the display. (This would have partially overcome the darkness
issue.)
- Darkness does not prevent you doing anything, so you can play the whole game in darkness if you so
desire.
- The exit from the eerie chamber appears to be incorrect.
- You can't EXAMINE anything unless it is held.
- You can't wear wearable objects, such as the crown and the ring. (This would have helped with
the limited inventory.)
- You can't move around using the conventional abbreviations for N, S, E, W, U and D. Instead,
you must GO N, WALK SOUTH etc.
- You can't EXAMINE anything other than moveable objects and you can only EXAMINE these when
they are held.
- When I played this on a TRS-80 emulator, I had to hold down the Shift key when entering commands
to force it to upper case. Caps Lock did not work for some reason.
Scores are shown in parentheses as +A=B, where A is points earned and B is cumulative points
earned.
GET LAMP
GO S
GO E
GO E
GO S (the lamp allows you to see in the dark)
GO S (ignore the bun, although you can eat it if you want to)
GO D
GO N
GET ROD
(EXAMINE ROD) (magic emanates from the rod)
GO S
GO S
GO SW
GET STATUE
(EXAMINE STATUE) (magic emanates from the statue)
GO NE
GO SE
WAVE ROD (you are transported to a secret room)
DROP ROD
GO NE
GO N
GO N
GO D
GO N (the statue is needed to allow this)
GO W
GO W
GET CROWN
GO E
GO E
GO S
GO U
GO S
GO S
GO SW
DROP CROWN
GET ROD
WAVE ROD (you are transported to room with one visible exit)
DROP STATUE
WAVE ROD (you are transported back to the secret room)
GET CROWN
WAVE ROD (you are transported back to room with one visible exit)
DROP ROD
GET STATUE
GO NW
GO N
GO U
GO N
GO N
DROP CROWN
GO S
GO S
GO D
GO W
GET RING
GO E
GO U
GO N
GO N
DROP LAMP
GET CROWN
GO W
GO W
GO N
DROP STATUE (+20=20)
DROP CROWN (+20=40)
DROP RING (+20=60)
SCORE (you have solved the adventure, whoop-de-doo)
***THE END***
