Adventure games

[Mitch Mlinar]

I never thought my daughter would become an interested computer user at
her young age, but such is the case. One of her favorites is the small
adventure game I made up for her (using a heavily modified ADVEN80
adventure generator - source available if anyone is interested). The
original adventure is a tad to much for her, although she loves it.
However, turn back the clock ...

Remember the old Scott Adam's series of Adventure games. I had one or two
on an old machine called the Sorcerer, but that is a pain having only
a cassette drive to load 16k. At one time, I recall the whole series
being sold on a disk for CP/M. Does anyone even remember this or can
lead me to a place where I can get them?

My daughter and I thank you.

-Mitch

[David Michael McCord]

On the topic of the old Scott Adams adventure games and their availability
for CP/M, I seriously doubt there is any legit place to get them.

I believe that Mr. Adams company, Adventure International, is defunct.

But they used to be available, because I purchased an 8" SSSD disk with
CP/M versions of all twelve adventures on it via special order from the
local computer store back in '82, I think. It cost me $100 or so.

I have not seen it in the Central Computer Products CP/M times catalog
(although, curiously, Turbo Modula-2 *is* in it) or anywhere else in
many years.

Da...@cup.portal.com

[Mike Morris]

In article <16...@oberon.USC.EDU> mli...@eve.usc.edu writes:
>
>Remember the old Scott Adam's series of Adventure games. I had one or two
>on an old machine called the Sorcerer, but that is a pain having only
>a cassette drive to load 16k. At one time, I recall the whole series
>being sold on a disk for CP/M. Does anyone even remember this or can
>lead me to a place where I can get them?
>
>My daughter and I thank you.
>
>-Mitch

I remember seeing an ad in a gaming magazine sold in the gaming store
at the local mall - i.e. the place that sells Dungeons & Dragons stuff,
Chess, etc. Also some of the _bigger_ newsstands might have it.

Or go to the TRW swap meet, find an old copy of Byte, or Kilobaud, and
just maybe scott adams hasn't moved (but that's a long shot).

Scott is still writing games - you just have to look for the ads where
they do the most good, and that means gaming magazines.

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