https://bluerenga.blog/2022/09/16/omote ... ture-1982/
I've been doing a bit of research into the author of the ADVEN-80 system, Peter D. Scargill, in order to add some of the games & details to the database.
As Jason links to in his blog post, this is the original article about ADVEN-80...
https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_jo ... ew=theater
...where Peter references his inspirations as the Scott Adams games and the famous Ken Reed Practical Computing article.
He mentions his own BASIC adventure system, from Creative Computing in 1981, called Fantasia, which I've yet to track down.
Peter has a website, and talks about the ADVEN-80 system on some of the pages, such as...
https://www.scargill.net/everything/early-interests/
His site has two archives of material, including a demonstration game by him and also one by Robert W. Rasch. As yet, I have not investigated these archives fully... I doubt I have the expertise to compile and get the system running myself!Two days before Christmas 1980 I received a cheque for $150 from the U.S. publisher of “Creative Computing” and my article entitled “Fantasia” appeared shortly thereafter. As you can imagine at that time, at that age, I was utterly delighted! All that is left of this is a reference to “Fantasia by P Scargill”.
Spurred on by this success, I developed a complete system for creating Crowther-like adventures for the Z80 Microprocessor and was rewarded by the publication of the (large) article, covering many pages, in the prestigious “Dr Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia”. Many years later the magazine survived as “Dr Dobbs Journal” and is now I believe it is just called “Dr Dobbs“.
Peter D. Scargill : Adven-80, An Advanced Adventure Development System; Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Number 61 (November 1981).
I see that Robert W. Rasch is associated with a Colecovision title "General Hospital". No idea what type of game that is. One to add to my research list...
Here is another page where Peter talks about Fantasia and ADVEN-80...
https://tech.scargill.net/a-trip-down-memory-lane/
He obviously mentioned Fantasia & ADVEN-80 back in the day to the people at Personal Computer World, see his letter here...
https://archive.org/details/PersonalCom ... 4/page/94/