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BeebScott: the Scott Adams interpreter nobody asked for

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Ant

BeebScott: a tool for converting and playing Scott Adams text adventure games on the BBC Micro Continue reading →

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Digging up Adventureland (Scott Adams, 1980)

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Ant

The troubled saga of how I ported the classic Scott Adams game Adventureland to the BBC Micro Continue reading →

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Scott Adams’s type-in game Pirate Adventure (BYTE, 1980)

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Ant

Does anyone know of a working, playable version of Scott Adams’s text adventure game Pirate Adventure as published in the December 1980 issue of BYTE magazine? I couldn’t find one, which was a shame because I was trying to learn … Continue reading →

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One Room (1983) — the first one-room game?

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Ant

One Room is a text adventure game written by Jorge Mir for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was published as a program-listing in the first Rainbow Book of Adventures in 1983. One Room is set in a single room (duh), … Continue reading →

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