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Jewels of Sancara Island Adventure game now playable and Walkthrough - ChickenMan - 16-08-2020
The game was written in Turbo Pascal by Matthew Hall way back when he was at school and aged 12. Unfortunately it only existed as a printout as original tapes/disks were thrown out long ago. The printout was scanned, page by page and then run through an OCR program to convert to text. This was manually edited against the scans to change I to 1, O to 0, etc. The files were then copied to a Microbee disk with Turbo Pascal and compiled to a working file making final corrections to the code as they arose. Unfortunately, the printout was originally missing one section of the code. This part actually generated the sounds within but was eventually found in the Online Issue 24 June 1986 page 40. This was typed in and added to make the game complete and as originally intended. This was done back in 2014.
Thanks to Oldbee for making the Walkthrough available. But in doing so, it was also found that there were still a couple of minor typos in the program listing, but there was also a major problem in the code itself prevented you finding the last jewel, which prevented you from completing the game. The typos easily fixed and after much trial & error of compiling and testing, the code problem was eventually found and the game is now fully playable. The Walkthrough is complete with hints and maps also, but only read it if you really get stuck.
This is a typical Adventure game with 75 rooms to explore and to solve the puzzles. But you only have 1500 chances to escape the island before the volcano erupts killing all. There is no SAVE option within the game, so make notes and draw out the rooms as you go. You must collect all 5 jewels before you can escape the island. The disk is bootable and playable on a CIAB or 128k Microbee and playable from B: on a 256TC. Best of luck, you will need it.
NOTES:
You can use either UPPER or lower case.
HELP will sometimes give you a clue at many places in the game.
? will give a list of Commands the game understands.
I will list your Inventory.
N S E W U D can be used for North, South, East, West, Up & Down.
QUIT lets you exit the game back to CP/M.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Games\Adventure folder we placed
jewels_of_sancara_island_fixed_ss80.dsk
jewels_of_sancara_island_walkthrough.pdf <--- in Microbee\Documentation\Adventure_walkthroughs folder