pczelda - Assorted text adventures

[pczelda]

:kosta: There's a great OLD text-only (no graphics) game called Enchanted Castle. In this game, you start out in a castle; you have to find a light source (a torch), and you either have to find food (you get hungry) or you have to finish the game before you starve; you have three objectives to beat the game. 1) Find and rescue the beautiful princess. 2) Find the priceless star diamond. 3) Destroy the castle while escaping. There are cool secret passages in the castle, as well as magic spells, and you find various items which you can use.

I already have this game; what I was wondering was 1) whether this game has been remade to include graphics (like Return to Zork was a remake of the text-only Zork: The Underground Empire) and/or 2) If someone could remake this game, while keeping the very detailed text descriptions and shortcut keys intact. If anybody has any info on this, please let me know. Thanks!

Here is a link to download this game, in case anybody wants to try it out or do the remake.
Enchanted Castle:
http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/ad...venture/ec3.zip (http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/adventure/text_adventure/ec3.zip)
or look at downloadpage:
http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/ad...text_adventure/ (http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/adventure/text_adventure/)

[Dave]

I think this could be interesting material for Abandonia....let me see...


Edited:
Ahah, it's crazy, these games are really old :w00t:
Gold material for AB!

Searching info...

[Man_of_Mystery]

Oh god, humbug, I had that game and loved it. It would be great to see it here.

[Man_of_Mystery]

ok, through the power of google I have actually found this game for download at, of all places, the national federation for the blind's website.

EDIT:

I originaly had the link to game here but I removed it due to the fact that I do not know if the game is still being sold since I could not find anymore info about it. I highly doubt that it isn't abandonware since the days of the text adventure game being something profitable is long gone. But I decided it be best to cover myself.

[_r.u.s.s.]

send a pm to some admin and ask for ftp acces, then upload to abandonia ftp=) you will get your name on credit

[Man_of_Mystery]

ok, I will do that later, the edit to that post was made before reading your's and I don't feel like editing it again, LOL

[Dave]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pczelda @ Jan 25 2005, 06:58 AM) 56553</div>
http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/ad...text_adventure/ (http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/adventure/text_adventure/)
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They are all in this links, you don't need to upload them, I didn't delete it because we are talking about very old games, I think they are all abandonware, but it's difficult to find information about developers and publishers.

[Luchsen]

Download the games, look into the files, write an e-mail if there's an address given. Mostly you get a bounce message, then you browse a search engine to look if there is any newer information to gather, mostly not, and then you declare it abandoned.

[Dave]

Don't worry Luchsen, I'm working on it :ok:
(It's a long list and I need time)

[Dave]

These are my firsts results:

Adventure (aka Colossal Cave) (1977) by William Crowther & Don Woods
Freeware

These two are freeware, there's a download link at Graham Cluley site: Link (http://www.grahamcluley.com/about.html)

- Humbug (1990) Developed by Graham Cluley
Freeware

- Jacaranda Jim (1987) Developed by Graham Cluley
Freeware

Now it's holiday time, I'm going to check them when I'll return.

[Luchsen]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(David86 @ Aug 7 2007, 02:14 PM) 303383</div>
Adventure (aka Colossal Cave) (1977) by William Crowther & Don Woods
Freeware
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And [ON SITE]. Not going to AR because: old stuff = too bad?

[Dave]

Finally I checked them all :wacko:
Most of them are tagged as shareware, but we are talking about full versions of games where registration brought no new benefits aside from the author's promise that he would notify registered owners of new version releases....so IMHO we can consider them all Abandonware or Freeware titles. :)


Adventure (aka Colossal Cave) (1977) by William Crowther & Don Woods
Freeware

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Download link at Graham Cluley site: Link (http://www.grahamcluley.com/about.html)

- Humbug (1990) Developed by Graham Cluley
Freeware

- Jacaranda Jim (1987) Developed by Graham Cluley
Freeware

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The Abbey (1.1)(1993) by Art LaFrana
Shareware

Adventure (3.5)(1990) by Wille Crowther
Abandonware (Most of the features of the current program were added by Don Woods)

Colossal Cave Revisited (1.0) (1993) by David M.Bagget
Freeware

Deep Space Drifter (1990) by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams
Shareware

The Dungeoun of Dunjin (4.30) (1991) by Magnus Olsson
Shareware

Majik (1990) by Chris Busch
Shareware

Hampton Manor (1.3) (1992) by Art LaFrana
Shareware

Adventure (6.6) (1990) upgraded version of Adventure (3.5)
Abandonware

Dungeoun (1990)
Unknown

World (1.06) (1988) by J.D. McDonald
Abandonware

Castle Ralf (1987-1992) by Douglas Associates
Shareware

Skyland's Star (?) by Castle Software
Shareware (I had problems running it)

The "Doppy & Pru" Trilogy (1984-1991) by Doppelganger Adventures

- Doppyworld

- Asylum

- Doppy & Pru's Summer Holiday

All Abandonware


T-Zer0 (1.04)(1991-1992) by Dennis cunningham
Shareware

Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure (1993) by D. A. Leary (ADVENTIONS)
Shareware

Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme (1993) by David M. Baggett (ADVENTIONS)
Shareware

Enchanted Castle (?)

[pczelda2]

Hi. This is pczelda, I posted this thread 8 years ago asking about the game, if the update has or could be made, etc. I also see that nothing has been done to even add the base game to this site. Could someone tell me any update on this? Thanks!

[marko river]

Well, it seems it went forgotten. Amazingly those links you provided still works!!!

I can't find much info on the game. Only found this link (http://www.wurb.com/if/game/77). I posted new request topic (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=29760) to get the status of the game.

If the game was shareware and is now abandoned then it is ok for abandonia. IMO even that old freewares are for AB more than for AR.

Do you have any more info on the game? Why is the archive called ec3, is it really Enchanted Castle 3? Perhaps first two parts were written for machines older than PC. And can you write a review or something?