11-01-2020, 10:48 PM
While we already have a huge collection of Text Adventures for the Microbee, you can never have enough. Many Text Adventures written for the Spectrum had been converted, using P.A.W.S. (Professional Adventure Writer System), to run under CP/M 2.2 or 3 on the Amstrad CPC models. For these to run correctly on the Microbee, all that was needed was to change the CLS (Clear the Screen) code to that required by the Microbee. This was easily done with a hex-editor.
So another 8 Text Adventure games have been added to a modified EASY MENU from Microbee (M.COM) for easy selection and all on an SS80 disk for compatibility with all Microbees running 3.5" drives. The games are :
1. The Challenge
2. Dragon Quest
3. Ramsbottom Smith: The Quest for the Yellow Spheroid
4. Start - A Demo mini-adventure that came with PAWS
5. Tewk - A Demo mini-adventure that came with PAWS
6. Ticket - A Demo mini-adventure that came with PAWS
7. Roach #1 - Return of the Roach - Part 1
8. Roach #2 - Return of the Roach - Part 2
A Walkthrough for most of the games is also included on the disk. View ONLY if you really get stuck, use BISHOW (F forward, B backwards) to view them. They have not been fully checked and all came from http://solutionarchive.com. The game with Parts will require that you finish Part 1 (saving to disk when you finish) before you can start Part 2.
Adventure #10 disk has had Adventure A (Planet of Death) updated to the version produced by the Z88DK team that includes the line drawn graphics that were included in the original Spectrum version that it was ported from.
So in the Repository in the Microbee/Software/Games/Adventure Games folder we placed :-
adventure_30_ss80.dsk
adventure_10_ss80.dsk <-- updated
So another 8 Text Adventure games have been added to a modified EASY MENU from Microbee (M.COM) for easy selection and all on an SS80 disk for compatibility with all Microbees running 3.5" drives. The games are :
1. The Challenge
2. Dragon Quest
3. Ramsbottom Smith: The Quest for the Yellow Spheroid
4. Start - A Demo mini-adventure that came with PAWS
5. Tewk - A Demo mini-adventure that came with PAWS
6. Ticket - A Demo mini-adventure that came with PAWS
7. Roach #1 - Return of the Roach - Part 1
8. Roach #2 - Return of the Roach - Part 2
A Walkthrough for most of the games is also included on the disk. View ONLY if you really get stuck, use BISHOW (F forward, B backwards) to view them. They have not been fully checked and all came from http://solutionarchive.com. The game with Parts will require that you finish Part 1 (saving to disk when you finish) before you can start Part 2.
Adventure #10 disk has had Adventure A (Planet of Death) updated to the version produced by the Z88DK team that includes the line drawn graphics that were included in the original Spectrum version that it was ported from.
So in the Repository in the Microbee/Software/Games/Adventure Games folder we placed :-
adventure_30_ss80.dsk
adventure_10_ss80.dsk <-- updated
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