Missing Adventure Workshop Games Found! (text adventures)

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Amazing news!
Amazing news for Amstrad text adventure fans!

John Wilson has found copies of many (many) of the missing Adventure Workshop titles for the Amstrad (CP/M) in his archives.

These include conversions of highly regarded Spectrum titles from homegrown legends such as Jack Lockerby, Linda Wright, Ian S. Brown and Linda Wright. (As well as a lot of my own games! )

These games, from the early 1990s, when there was still a thriving Amstrad text adventure scene, were thought lost forever but John found them archived on some floppy disks.


It's brilliant to finally have found them... I've been after these titles for years.


John has shared the disk images here...
http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2019/05/long-lost-treasures.html

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Please note that these disks aren't officially released compilations... most of the games were sold separately or in pairs... that's just how they were archived.

There are some that exist online already, but many (many) of them are newly recovered.

Here's a very quick list of (most of) the games on the disks...

The Essential Myth's...
Jekyll and Hyde (Three Parts)


Jack Lockerby's...
The Miser
Treasure Island
Into the Mystic
The Bounty Hunter
The Ellisnore Diamond
The Hammer of Grimwold
The Escaping Habit
Domes of Sha
Matchmaker
Davy Jones Locker
The Enchanted Cottage
The Challenge
The Cup
Jack and the Beanstalk
Witch Hunt
The Dark Tower


Ian S. Brown's 'Traveller in Black' series..
Phoenix
Aztec Assault
Celtic Carnage
The Violator of Voodoo


Jamie Murphy's...
Khangrin Plans
Pendant of Logryn
Leopold the Minstrel


Scott Denyer's...
Desmond and Gertrude
Larry the Lemming's Urge for Extinction
Raymond Pringle's Quest for the Fabled Jar of Pickled Cabbage
Snow Joke
Star Flaws
Aunt Velma is Coming to Tea


Gareth Pitchford's...
Microfair Madness (Three Parts)
The Life of a Lone Electron
First Past the Post
Get Me to the Church on Time
The Quest for the Holy Snail
Personal Computing Whirled!


Clive Wilson's...
The Darkest Road
T'was a Time of Dread
The Unborn One
Venom


Linda Wright's...
Cloud 999
The Jade Stone (two parts)
Agatha's Folly (two parts)
Sharpe's Deeds
The Black Fountain


Diane Rice's...
A Serpentine Tale
Twelve Days of Christmas


The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler by Patrick Walsh (Two Parts)


Staff of Power by Sue Medley

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Anyone who is interested in cataloguing and archiving these titles correctly should please see... http://8bitag.com/info/adventure-workshop.html


...for the associated advertising that details how the games were sold.