25-01-2005, 03:58 AM | #1 | ||
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pczelda - Assorted text adventures
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 or look at downloadpage: http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/uwp-uml/ad...text_adventure/
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31-07-2007, 10:56 PM | #2 | ||
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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... |
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01-08-2007, 11:09 PM | #3 | ||
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Oh god, humbug, I had that game and loved it. It would be great to see it here.
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01-08-2007, 11:31 PM | #4 | ||
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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. |
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01-08-2007, 11:34 PM | #5 | ||
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send a pm to some admin and ask for ftp acces, then upload to abandonia ftp=) you will get your name on credit
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01-08-2007, 11:51 PM | #6 | ||
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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
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02-08-2007, 10:19 AM | #7 | ||
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pczelda @ Jan 25 2005, 06:58 AM) [snapback]56553[/snapback]</div>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.
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05-08-2007, 12:54 AM | #8 | ||
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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.
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05-08-2007, 01:47 PM | #9 | ||
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Don't worry Luchsen, I'm working on it k:
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07-08-2007, 12:14 PM | #10 | ||
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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 - 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. |
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