Fortress of Keler
Hamster Software 1985
- Aka:
- Fortress of Keller
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Bryan Kitts
- Systems:
- Quill, The/AdventureWriter
- Platforms:
- Spectrum
- Entered by:
- Gunness, Strident
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 25-05-2025
Synopsis
Bravely, and perhaps foolishly, you have set out to explore the stronghold of Keler the magician while he is absent, hoping to find the Elixir, a potion which can transmute lead into gold.
Notes
Later republished by The Guild
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- by terri
- Map
- by OVL
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Later rebundled with Firelance.
I was stuck outside the portcullis in the game's opening location for a while. Nothing seemed to work. Oh no, surely they wouldn't have used that old cobweb enshrined solution....oh yes they would.
Has anyone got this game to run successfully? I've tried two versions and three emulators. It either crashes with a screen dump of garbage after two parser returns, or plays the game through from start to finish in front of your eyes. I've tried the 45k .tzx file and the 62k .rzx file and the ZesarUx, ZXSpin and Fuse emulators and all combinations crash. A fortress indeed.
Typical. I have now found a version that works:
https://www.planetemu.net/rom/sinclair-zx-spectrum-games-tap/fortress-of-keler-1985-hamster-m-tzxtools
I haven't played this game so I may be barking up the wrong tree but I kept running into problems when I played Bryan Kitts's other game "Firelance". I was playing Firelance with the emulator set as a Spectrum 128, the problems disappeared when I chose "48 BASIC" on the Spectrum's start menu and loaded the game in the traditional Spectrum manner. Perhaps Fortress of Keler suffers from a similar problem.
I tried the 48 Basic idea but it didn't seem to cut the mustard. Fuse isn't my favourite of the Spectrum emulators, although I have tried the last version mentioned via the ZXSpin emulator and it works a treat on there too. It looks an intriguing game.